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West Africa

Mauritania
FRANCE BACKS MINING PUSH

The French government is preparing to not only put up [...]

Subscribers only 16.12.1999

Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
SAXENA OUT, MANO RIVER IN WITH ANGLO

Mano River Resources "fervently hopes a page has been turned" with the accord in Freetown between the three protagonists in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.1999

Burkina Faso
METOREX ACQUIRES PERKOA

Johannesburg-based Metorex which is controlled by Canada's Crew Development group has become the latest to benefit from the decision by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.1999

Mali
A YEAR'S DELAY FOR SELL-OFF

An invitation to tender for the sensitive privatization of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.1999

Mauritania
MINING CODE A HEADACHE

New Mining legislation ratified in Mauritania includes a lot of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.1999

Ivory Coast
SUSTAINED RURAL EFFORT

The French electrical equipment manufacturer Clemessy has begun this month [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.1999

Ivory Coast
ABSOLUT BUYS INTO BOBI

African Carnegie Diamonds, British affiliate of Australia's Carnegie Minerals which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.1999

Ghana
FIFTEEN DAYS' GRACE FOR ASHANTI

Banks have granted Ashanti Goldfields Corp. an extra two weeks [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.1999

Ghana
NEW CANADIAN JUNIOR IN YAMFO REGION

The Vancouver-based junior Columbia River Resources has made its debut [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.1999

Mauritania
TORONTO MARKET HAILS REX

Has Toronto-based Rex Diamond Mining hit the jackpot by putting [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.1999

Ivory Coast
GLOBAL ADRIATIC V OUT OF COLD STACK

Global Marine is bringing the jack-up Glomar Adriatic V out [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.1999

Nigeria
ED NOBLE TO DRILL FOR TEXACO

Texaco is negotiating with Noble Drilling to take the jack-up [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.1999

Ivory Coast
INDIAN BID FOR SIR

An Indian holding company Petroleum India International has emerged as a surprise candidate for the privatization of the Societe Ivoirienne [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

Equatorial Guinea
SECOND WELL CONFIRMS LA CEIBA

Triton Energy announced early this week that an appraisal well that was spudded immediately after its discovery dubbed Ceiba-1 in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

Ghana
UNION FENOSA TO BUILD CO-GENERATION STATION

Union Fenosa signed an agreement with the Volta River Authority [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

Burkina Faso
NEW PLACER/CHANNEL PACT

Placer Dome, which took options in Feb., 1998 on a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

Ghana
FIRST EXTENSION OF RESERVES FOR BOGOSO

Golden Star Resources has extended the reserves of the Bogoso [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

Mauritania
IDA LOAN IN PIPELINE FOR PRIVATIZATION

The World Bank has begun examining a loan for the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

Senegal
COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT WITH GTI; NEW TURBINE INAUGURATED

Managed by Hydro-Quebec International and Elyo since its privatization in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

Nigeria
MOBIL SIGNS UP FOR ADRIATIC VIII AGAIN

Mobil has signed a new contract with Global Marine for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

West Africa
SEVEN-SIDED EFFORT TO RESOLVE DEMARCATION DISPUTES PEACEFULLY

A Gulf of Guinea Committee was set up in Libreville [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

Nigeria
EA PROJECT IN STARTING BLOCKS

In late October Shell's board gave a go-ahead to the EA project that will involve a first venture in "alternative" [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.11.1999

Ghana
ASHANTI BUYS TIME

Ghana's Ashanti Goldfields has put the immediate threat arising out of forward sales of its gold behind it and last [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.11.1999

Ghana
ANGLOGOLD SAID TO BE INTERESTED IN ABOSSO MINE

Speculation is rife in Australian mining circles that South Africa's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.11.1999

Benin
PERMIT COULD BE CANCELLED

The mines ministry has indicated that the exploration permit on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.11.1999

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