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West Africa

Senegal
Fewer Power Cuts

Senelec has informed its customers that fewer disruptions in power supplies are occurring because of a gradual resumption of operations [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.12.2000

Togo
Power Sales Double

Togo Electricite, which took over the distribution of electricity and part of power production in Togo on Dec. 1, is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.12.2000

Nigeria
Death Penalty for Saboteurs

The government plans to bring the death penalty back for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.12.2000

Ghana
40 MW from Saltpond’s Gas?

The Saltpond field that produces 2,000 bpd of oil at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.12.2000

Burkina Faso
Metorex to start development of the Perkoa mine in 2001

Metorex, a South African company that is over 50% owned by Canada’s Crew Developpment Corp, has submitted a project of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.12.2000

Canada, Guinea
Erich Baumann

Erich Baumann has just resigned from the board of the Canadian company Hymex Diamond Corporation and directors are shortly to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.12.2000

Guinea | Or
Semafo to begin production at Jean-Gobele in the third quarter of 2001

Canadian mining company Semafo is to begin production at the Jean-Gobele gold mine in Guinea in the third quarter of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.12.2000

Nigeria
Kenneth Narebor

When Kenneth Narebor speaks foreign oil companies operating in Nigeria listen. Secretary-general of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.12.2000

Nigeria
A Market Worth $45 Billion

Already well established in Nigeria's oil and gas industry, American interests are intent on bolstering their position even further in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.12.2000

Nigeria
Gas Power Station in the State of Ekiti

Two Belgian companies, Brussels Alliance and Inter-Trade in association with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.12.2000

Nigeria
Pengassan Protests Over Expatriate Advantages

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.12.2000

Nigeria
Exploration Licenses and Gas Flaring

Amid a lot of uncertainty over the date when oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.12.2000

Nigeria
Controlling Niger Delta Resources

During an international conference concerning the Niger Delta, a number [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.12.2000

Ghana
Headway for Takoradi Project

The Volta River Authority is examining bids for the construction [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.12.2000

Nigeria
Companies Take On NEPA

Nigerian companies are voicing their ire against the National Electric [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.12.2000

Nigeria
Faster Procedures for Licenses?

Nigerian vice-president Atiku Abubakar urged a senior official from Texaco [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.12.2000

Guinea
Trivalence Completes Drilling Program

Trivalence Mining has just finished drilling 23 holes on the 1,012 sq.km., Aredor concession on which it holds an 85% [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.11.2000

Ghana
Ntotoroso's Potential Upgraded to 2 million oz.

According to new estimates of the E,A and C areas on the Ntotoroso Gold Resources license, total resources on the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.11.2000

Ghana
Uncertainty over Bogoso

The future of the Bogoso gold mine in Ghana is under a cloud and the owners might have to rely [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.11.2000

Guinea-Bissau
Achal Ghai

Head of the Vancouver section of the group "The Indus Entrepreneurs" and director of CIBC Investment Banking Co., Achal Ghai, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.11.2000

West Africa
Seeking Wider Regional Integration

The French-speaking countries of the Union Economique et Monetaire Ouest-Africaine [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.11.2000

Ghana | Gold
Ghanean elections impacting on the mining industry

Presidential elections in Ghana, which will oppose on December 7 vice-president John Atta-Mills and John Kufour from the New Patriotic [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.11.2000

Nigeria
TDA Funding Sought

The Nigerian Gas Company Ltd. (NGC) has appealed to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.11.2000

Niger
Tax Exemptions

With the government putting four exploration blocks up for grabs, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.11.2000

Ghana
Nuevo Reduces Stake on Accra-Keta

Nuevo Energy Company, which plans to start drilling on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.11.2000

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