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West Africa

Nigeria
Call for Emergency Units

The Nigerian public enterprises office has called on the Washington-based consultants K&M to evaluate sites and prepare invitations to tender [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.2000

Benin
SBEE Sets Its Targets

With output at 370 GWh in 1999, the Societe Beninoise d'Electricite et d'Eau (SBEE) plans to increase its sales of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.2000

Nigeria
Chevron in Court

The Damocles sword hanging over Chevron since May 1999 is expected to finally fall in coming days when lawyers and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.2000

Equatorial Guinea
Gas Project Underway

The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) announced on June 13 that it had guaranteed a $173 million loan to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.2000

Sierra Leone
Embargo in Sight

With the U.N. Security Council in full discussion over an embargo on Sierra Leone's diamonds, the U.S. Congress has opened [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.06.2000

Sierra Leone
Piece of Advice from USAID

AEM has obtained a copy of an in-house working paper drafted on May 5 by the United States Agency for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.06.2000

Benin, Togo
Network Interconnection

A project to connect the power networks in Benin and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.06.2000

Togo
Consortium Wins Distribution Franchise

A consortium made up of Elyo (Lyonnaise des Eaux) and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.06.2000

Niger
EU Assistance Sought for Liptako

Niger's government is thinking of asking the European Commission to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.06.2000

Niger
Agadem Estimated at 350 Million Barrels

ExxonMobil, operator and lone owner of Niger's Agadem concession, has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.06.2000

Nigeria
NLNG Targets U.S. Market

The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) consortium is counting on the North American market providing the outlets needed to extend [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.05.2000

Togo
Sell-Off for CEET

After running into obstacles for over a year, the privatization of Compagnie d'Energie Electrique du Togo (CEET) appears finally off [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.05.2000

Ghana
Invitation to Tender for Rural Electrification

An invitation to bid for work on rural electrification will [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.05.2000

West Africa
WAPG an "Ecology" Kingpin

Contrary to reports in industry circles, nobody has managed to prove the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) that is to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.05.2000

Sierra Leone
Diamond Boycott Mulled

The collapse of the U.N. peace-keeping operation in Sierra Leone and apparent resumption of warfare has triggered calls for a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.05.2000

Guinea
Mincor to Start Exploring Bankole

The Australian firm Mincor Resources plans to start exploration drilling [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.05.2000

Ghana
Ashanti Extends Iduapriem Mine

Ghana's Ashanti Goldfields has agreed to pay $US18.8 million to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.05.2000

Nigeria
CanadianOxy's High Hopes

Canadian Occidental Petroleum could drill starting from this year on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.05.2000

Senegal
No Close-Down for SAR

In an interview with the daily newspaper Le Soleil, energy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.05.2000

Mauritania
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MITTERAND

Son of the former French president and ex African advisor [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.05.2000

West Africa
Roc Oil on The March

Australia's Roc Oil which already owns large off-shore properties in Morocco and Senegal has now expanded into promising waters off [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2000

Sierra Leone
Waiting for Sankoh

The American government is playing an ever more active but increasingly discreet role in helping to set up the Strategic [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2000

West Africa
Vanco on Shopping Spree

In the finest tradition of American independents, Houston-based Vanco Energy Co. is continuing to scoop up property in West Africa's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2000

Nigeria
Engen Targets Nolchem

The South African group Engen, which claims to be the trail-blazer in Africa for its Malaysian parent company Petronas, has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2000

Ghana
Birim Goldfields Inc

In our last issue we presented a memorandum drafted by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2000

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