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West Africa

Ivory Coast
APACHE DUCKS OUT BUT STAYS

Apache Corporation has pulled out of Ivory Coast by selling its stake in Foxtrot, as AEM revealed in April, 1998 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.1999

Burkina Faso
SAHELIAN DEEMS POURA VIABLE

The closure of the Poura gold mine that appeared inevitable in mid-July with the collapse in the gold price was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.1999

Guinea
NEW OPERATING COMPANY FOR NIMBA IRON

A new operating company is being set up to extract [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.1999

Mauritania
HSBC TO PREPARE SONELEC SELL-OFF

The government has chosen HSBC as banking adviser to prepare [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.1999

Benin
WADB CUTS INTEREST RATES ON OLD LOANS

Interest rates on loans to Benin from the West African [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.1999

Nigeria
TEXACO MAY SIGN ED NOBLE UP AGAIN

Texaco has terminated its contract with the jack-up Ed Noble [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.1999

Spotlight | Guinea
IN THE EYE OF MERGER HURRICANE

Of all the regions concerned, Africa and particularly Guinea, a country that provides 40% of the world's bauxite exports, are likely to feel the strongest impact from a wave of mergers which was kicked off in the aluminum sector by [.

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Guinea
KALETA A POWER-ALUMINIUM PROJECT

Following July's inauguration of the 75 MW hydro-electric dam at Garafiri in the wake of various ups and downs – [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Ivory Coast
OCEANEERING FOR ESPOIR

After landing a contract with Petroci for the sale of gas from the Espoir field after a full year of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Ghana, Nigeria
CHEVRON FORMULA FOR WAGP

Chevron has been officially named head of the West African Gas Pipeline project linking Nigeria, Ghana, Benin and Togo. The [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Senegal
PAGET SWITCHES TACTIC IN SABODALA AFFAIR

Australia's Paget Mining announced last month it was suspending an [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Equatorial Guinea
OCEAN ALLIANCE INSTEAD OF PEREGRINE III FOR TRITON

The Ocean Alliance has spudded the Mbini 1 well, a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Equatorial Guinea
CMS SEEKS JACK-UP FOR ALBA

AEM has learned that CMS Oil & Gas is in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Equatorial Guinea
MOBIL RELEASES ALEUTIAN KEY

Mobil has released the semi-submersible Aleutian Key after a contract [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Ghana
OCEAN LIBERATOR TO DRILL FOR DANA

Dana Petroleum has fixed the Ocean Liberator to drill one [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Ghana
TANO SEEKS JACK-UP

Tano Energy is tendering for a jack-up via Oil Base [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Ivory Coast
DEEPWATER FRONTIER AWAITED ON BLOCK 105

The R&B Falcon deepwater drillship Deepwater Frontier has passed through [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Nigeria
EIGHTEEN OTHER LICENSES TO BE CANCELLED

The government is planning to cancel 18 licenses on top [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Nigeria
ADDAX FIXES NOBLE PERCY JOHNS

Addax Petroleum has fixed the jack-up Noble Percy Johns for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Ghana
RESERVES UPPED ON CHIRANO

Although it says there is still a lot of drilling to do, Australia's Red Back Mining claims it is close [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.1999

Burkina Faso
MORE GOOD NEWS ON SOMIFA GOLD CONCESSION

Canada's Channel Resources has just wound up a drilling campaign [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.1999

Ghana
PROCESSING PLANT FOR SMALL-SCALE MINERS

A $150 million central processing plant for small-scale miners has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.1999

Guinea
TRIVALENCE BOOSTS OUTPUT

Canada's Trivalence Mining Corp will shortly be recommissioning a dual [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.1999

Mali
GERMAN LOAN FOR GAS TURBINE

The German government has offered Mali a Ffr60 million ($9.6 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.1999

Ivory Coast
DEEPWAER FRONTIER TO DRILL ON CI-105

AEM has learned that Ocean Energy will drill its East [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

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