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West Africa

Mali
Mahamadou Samake

In charge of Randgold Resources' mining operations in Mali, Mahamadou Samake was praised by company chief Mark Bristow in late [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.12.2002

Ghana
Back to Africa for Arthur Fisher

Geologist Arthur Fisher is best known in the mining industry for having discovered and put two gold mines in Australia [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.12.2002

Mali
Afcan Lands a License

lready active in Guinea, Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone, the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.12.2002

Ghana
Haywood Raises Money for St. Jude

Haywood Securities and Salman Partners have just raised $3.24 million [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.12.2002

Ivory Coast
Cogema Suspends Work at Ity

The Societe des Mines d'Ity, which is 51% controlled by [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.12.2002

Nigeria
TDA to Shortly Take on Projects

The U.S. Trade Development Agency has finally decided to involve [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.12.2002

Equatorial Guinea
The Mystery Man Behind Fruitex

A Nigerian firm named Fruitex last month won a huge concession in Equatorial Guinea's deep offshore, with water depths of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Benin, Togo
First Wells by Year's End

Kerr McGee and Hunt Oil are expected to start drilling in the Benin and Togo offshore in the next few weeks.

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Equatorial Guinea
Dogfight for Petro Airlines

Two Texas-based airlines are competing for rights to fly regularly to Malabo.

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Equatorial Guinea
A Concession for Glencore

Equatorial Guinea has awarded the Glencore trading company four licences in its shallow offshore.

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Nigeria
RoyalDutch/Shell's Dilemma

As the leading oil producer in the country, RoyalDutch/Shell has fired away continuously at OPEC quotas.

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Nigeria
New ?Chinese? Plants

The Nigerian government has just awarded construction contracts for three new gas-fuelled power stations to supply Lagos and Abuja.

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Nigeria
Obasanjo's Budget

Budget forecasts for 2003 that president Olusegun Obansanjo presented to Parliament in mid-November were based on oil fetching $21 per [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Nigeria
$4 Billion Cash Call

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has appealed to the government to set aside $4 billion in the 2003 budget to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Nigeria
Win for Local Insurance Firm

The Nigerian government's campaign to compel the majors to farm out part of the work on their oil operations to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Ghana
Kuwait Fund to Help VRA

The Kuwait Fund for Economic Development is putting up $16.2 million towards a $22 million project to link the Takoradi [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Nigeria
Olu Agunloye

Named minister for electricity and steel last week, Olu Agunloye succeeded Segun Agagu who stepped down from the job to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

West Africa
Abdourahmane N’Dir

A Senegalese national, Abdourahmane N’Dir, will succeed his countryman Babacar Gueye as head of the Societe de Gestion de Manantali [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Mauritania
Russia's IPG Starts Drilling

Present on block 11 which stretches from Nouakchott to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Senegal
Roc to Wave Goodbye

The Australian firm ROC Oil which has been present on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Equatorial Guinea
New Field for Amerada Hess?

The U.S. firm Amerada Hess has turned up traces of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Equatorial Guinea
Drilling Program for 2003

The Equatorial Guinea government has given its seal of approval [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Nigeria
South Koreans Win FPSO Sub-Contract

Hyundai Heavy Industries has won a $200 million contract to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Nigeria
NEPA Sell-Off Set for Next October

Initially scheduled for the end of this year and then [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Nigeria, Sierra Leone | FIRST INTERSTATE BANK
Adviser to Nigerian Government

An establishment reportedly close to Nigeria's president, First Interstate Bank, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

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