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West Africa

Ghana
NEW STUDY FOR BUI

The timetable for the 400 MW Bui hydro-electric project that received an initial green light in October could be thrown [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.01.2000

Ghana
YAMFO-SEFWI LAUCHED THIS YEAR?

Normandy Mining's project to develop a gold mine on Ghana's Yamfo Sefwi project could take off before the end of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.01.2000

Benin
ENRON-ABACAN PROJECT WON'T FLY

Negotations that Enron undertook in June, 1998 with Benin to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.01.2000

Mauritania
INTENSIVE DRILLING ON TASIAST

Normandy Mining is pursing a drilling program over 12,200 meters [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.01.2000

Mali
EDM EXECUTIVE ARRESTED

Harouna Diakite, a director at Energie du Mali (EDM), was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.01.2000

Spotlight | Sierra Leone
LKI SEEKING GUARANTEES

The campaigns against "fatal transactions" in diamonds prompted the boss of Lazare Kaplan International (LKI) to send a confidential letter last month to the chairman of the U.N. sanctions committee on Sierra Leone, Fernando Enrique Petrella, Argentina's ambassador to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.01.2000

Ghana, Ivory Coast
TDA LOAN FOR ESIAMA STATION

The U.S. Trade & Development Agency is putting up $165,000 of the $327,000 – or roughly 50% -- that a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.01.2000

Ivory Coast
SIR PRIVATIZATION SHELVED

In the somewhat unlikely event the now-frozen privatization of Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) could be pushed through by the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.01.2000

Nigeria
MAJOR DISCOVERIES CONFIRMED

A year after its Agbami oil find pointed to very substantial reserves Texaco announced with considerable fanfare on Jan. 6 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.01.2000

Mali
GOVERNMENT TO HOLD STRONG MINORITY IN EDM

Energy du Mali plans to invest $35 million Euros this [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.01.2000

Mali
WILL STALLED MINING LEGISLATION BE REVAMPED?

The government wanted to promulgate new mining legislation by decree [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.01.2000

Mauritania
LOAN AGREEMENT

Mauritania and France signed an accord at the end of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.01.2000

Niger
HUNT FORGES AHEAD

After a fairly long observation period during which it waited [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.01.2000

Nigeria
CONSOLIDATED OIL TAKES NOBLE DON WALKER

The jack-up Noble Don Walker is understood to have been [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.01.2000

Nigeria
LOAN AGREEMENT FOR NLNG'S NEW VESSELS

Nigeria Liquefied National Gas Co. (NLNG) signed an agreement on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.01.2000

Equatorial Guinea
TUSKAR PUTS ITS FIELD INTO PRODUCTION

The Irish company Tuskar Resources put its Obe field into [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.01.2000

Mauritania
FIRST WELLS IN SIGHT IN THE BLOCK 2 TO 6 AREA

The partners on blocks 2 to 6 in Mauritania's offshore [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.01.2000

Mauritania
REX DIAMOND MINING

REX DIAMOND MINING, a Canadian company highly active on the [...]

Subscribers only 06.01.2000

Nigeria
NEPA'S NEW ERA

Nigerian energy minister chief Bola Ige cited a list of fundamental changes for Nigereia's National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.12.1999

Ivory Coast
POWER FOR EURO BANANAS

Part of the 4.1 million Euro financial package for Ivory Coast's banana industry that was approved on Dec. 10 by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.12.1999

Sierra Leone
EMBARGO ON DIAMONDS?

Representative Tony Hall who is working to get the U.S. Congress to adopt a Consumer Access to a Responsible Accounting [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.12.1999

Ghana
DENMARK PLANS FRESH LOANS

According to an adviser at its embassy in Accra, Denmark's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.12.1999

Nigeria
MOBIL TAKES BACK TWO JACK-UPS AND WILL REACH FIVE NEXT YEAR

Mobil has fixed the jack-up Noble Percy Johns for one [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.12.1999

Nigeria
STATOIL PLANS ONE OR TWO WELLS NEXT YEAR

Statoil is planning just one or two deepwater appraisal wells [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.12.1999

Equatorial Guinea
DOZEN FPSO OFFERS TO TRITON

Triton Energy, which is taking a "super fast track" to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.12.1999

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