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West Africa

Spotlight | Nigeria
Brothers Squabble Over Boundary

No sooner had Nigeria's dispute with Sao Tome been resolved than Nigeria found itself facing another conflict, this time with Equatorial Guinea

Subscribers only Energy 18.02.2003

Benin
Major Interconnection Project

To help tide Benin over until the first deliveries of gas from the West African Gas Pipeline reach the country, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.02.2003

Nigeria
Obasanjo Caves in to South

Feeling the issue could harm his chances of re-election in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.02.2003

Nigeria
Start to Bitumen Exploration Project

A start to exploiting Nigeria's huge reserves of bituminous sand that lie in a 350-km belt running between Ogun state [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2003

Mauritania
Nouadhibou Soon Restored

The European Development Fund is to shortly disburse 45 million [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2003

Mauritania
Nouadhibou Soon Restored

The European Development Fund is to shortly disburse 45 million [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2003

Nigeria
TDA to Help Aluminum Scheme

The U.S. Trade Development Agency will partially finance a feasibility [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2003

Mauritania
Nouadhibou Soon Restored

The European Development Fund is to shortly disburse 45 million [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2003

Nigeria
TDA to Help Aluminum Scheme

The U.S. Trade Development Agency will partially finance a feasibility [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2003

Mauritania
Nouadhibou Soon Restored

The European Development Fund is to shortly disburse 45 million [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2003

Nigeria
TDA to Help Aluminum Scheme

The U.S. Trade Development Agency will partially finance a feasibility [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2003

Ghana
Golden Star Raises $33 million

The U.S. firm Golden Star Resources which operates in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2003

Nigeria
Obasanjo Breaks Logjam

In an attempt to break the stalemate concerning the share-out of oil revenue in the country, president Olusegun Obasanjo has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

Nigeria
Shell to be Questioned

Given a go-ahead by the U.S. Supreme Court, a suit initiated by the family of the Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

West Africa
Fiscal Treaty for WAGP

In addition to conferring on the Ivory Coast emergency, leaders from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) seized [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

Nigeria
Heavier Cash Call on NNPC

Speaking before the Nigerian Parliament's Committee on Petroleum Resources on Jan. 23, Ombu Harry, financial director of the Nigerian National [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

Nigeria
Amni Seeks Cash

Nigeria's Amni company that operates OML 112 is seeking to raise $50 million by the end of June to develop [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

Equatorial Guinea
Amerada Hess Piles Up Losses

The American independent Amerada Hess posted a $371 million loss for the last quarter of 2002 after a downward revision [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

Nigeria
Festus Fediye

Chairman of PanOcean, the only Nigerian company involved in a joint venture with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Festus Fidiye could [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

Ivory Coast
Leon Emmanuel Monnet

Following the Marcoussis agreement negotiated in Paris last week, energy minister Leon Emmanuel Monnet could well be one of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

Nigeria
Discovery on OPL 218

ChevronTexaco and Statoil, partners on OPL 218, have confirmed the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

Nigeria, United Kingdom | CRAVATH, SWAINE MOORE
Advising RoyalDutch/Shell

The British firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore has been retained [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

France, Nigeria | HERVE TEMINE
Dan Etete's Lawyer

Former Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete has chosen the French [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

Nigeria | NNPC
Call for Greater Transparency

Nigerian finance minister Mallam Adamu Ciroma called for the accounts [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

Equatorial Guinea | GEPETROL
Share in Nigerian Field

Under a border agreement with Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea's national oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

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