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West Africa

Nigeria, United States
James Hackett

Ocean Energy Inc. recently made the headlines in the trade press when it was kicked out of an exploration license [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.02.2001

Ghana
TOR’s Tribulations

Ghana’s Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) finds itself in dire financial straits with debts of 2,000 billion cedis (around $290 million). [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.02.2001

Nigeria
Growth Needed for NNPC

Because of Nigeria’s dependence on oil, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) needs to be strengthened in a big way [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.02.2001

Nigeria
NEPA: The Picture Darkens

A big push by Nigeria’s National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) had positive results in December and January but the improvement [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.02.2001

Ghana
Rehabilitation Project at Akosombo

The Volta River Authority (VRA) has closed down one of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.02.2001

Equatorial Guinea
Ceiba’s Prospects

Triton Energy Corporation, which operates Ceiba on block G, is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.02.2001

Mali
Optimism for Morila gold in Mali

Geologists working on the AngloGold/RandGold Resources joint venture that operates, along with the Mali government, the Morila goldmine believe that [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.02.2001

Gambia
Veil Lifted on Zircon Stockpile

A long-neglected stockpile of zircon in Gambia is close to being processed and its new owner is seeking a buyer [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.02.2001

Ivory Coast
Gold Mineralisation on Bonikro

Equigold said it had achieved highly significant results in its exploration campaign at the Bonikro mine on the 700 sq.km. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.02.2001

Ghana
James Kwamena Anaman

The managing director for corporate affairs at Ashanti Goldfields Co., James Kwamena Anaman, has been named president of the Ghana [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.02.2001

Mali
Randgold Suspends Work at Syama

Randgold Resources has suspended its mining operations at Syama because [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.02.2001

France, Mauritania
MOKHTAR OULD DADDAH

Former Mauritanian president Mokhtar Ould Daddah, who is 78, ill [...]

Subscribers only Business 08.02.2001

Mauritania
Drilling to Start on Block 4

Operator on Mauritania’s offshore block 4, the Australian firm Woodside Petroleum has commissioned the drilling rig Scarebeo 7 to drill [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.02.2001

Ghana
Two Prospects for Nuevo

Nuevo Energy Company is drilling the NAK-1 well in a water depth of 1,100 feet on the Cougar prospect, the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.02.2001

Senegal
Macky Sall

At the age of only 39, Macky Sall was named general manager of Senegal’s state-owned Petrosen oil company late last [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.02.2001

Nigeria
Problematic Share-Out of Oil Revenue

The delicate question of sharing oil revenue is continuing to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.02.2001

Nigeria
Shell’s "Confession"

Nigeria’s media and news agencies have made much of statements [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.02.2001

Nigeria
Price of Gas and Funding the Refining Sector

A debate over an increase in the price of gasoline [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.02.2001

Ghana
Ashanti’s successful consolidation depends on Kufuor

Ashanti Goldfields Co , Ghana’s leading gold mining concern, is counting on the country’s recently elected president, John Kufuor, to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.02.2001

Mauritania
TIVISKI

TIVISKI, a Mauritanian dairy products firm, has launched construction of [...]

Subscribers only 01.02.2001

Ghana, Uganda
Sharp Production Jump for Kasese

In the final quarter of 2000, cobalt production at the Kasese mine in Uganda, which is 63% owned by Banff [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2001

Burkina Faso
Placer Dome Teams up With Solomon

An affiliate of Placer Dome has confirmed it will buy into the Canadian firm Solomon Resources’ three gold mines in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2001

Document | Liberia
Second kimberlite at Kpo for Mano River

After having discovered a first kimberlite on its Kpo permit, some thirty kilometres to the east of Liberia’s Bea mountains, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.01.2001

West Africa
Growth Area for Chevron

With the spectacular rebound of the oil price since the dip in early 1999 the petroleum industry is gradually regaining [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.01.2001

Ghana
LPG and Security

Ghana’s trade and industry ministry has decided to ban imports [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.01.2001

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