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West Africa

Nigeria
RESTORING ORDER IN THE INDUSTRY

The Nigerian government announced a measure on July 6 that fulfils a major pledge by Olusegun Obasanjo during the campaign [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Ivory Coast
REGULATORY AGENCY STARTS OPERATING

The Autorite Nationale de Regulation du Secteur de l'Electricite has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Togo
WORLD BANK MISSION BROUGHT FORWARD

Planned initially for last March and then put back to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Burkina Faso
POURA PROJECT HALTED

A re-development of the Poura gold mine that was to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Burkina Faso
BUT ALGY CLUFF SEES A FUTURE ELDORADO

British mining entrepreneur Algy Cluff has predicted that Burkina Faso [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Mauritania
REX FINDS DIAMONDS AT TENOUMER

Toronto-based Rex Diamond Mining Corporation said that it had found [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Ghana
HUNT TO DILL IN 1,100 METERS OF WATER IN NOVEMBER

Hunt Oil (Overseas) has fixed the semi Sedco 700 to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Nigeria
NEW SHELL-SEDCO CONTRACT FOR TRIDENT VIII

Shell Nigeria has agreed a new contract with Sedco Forex [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Nigeria
A NORWEGIAN FPSO FOR OBE

The Irish oil company Tuskar has fixed the FPSO Crystal [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Nigeria
SHELL REPLACES PUMPING STATIONS

Shell Nigeria has placed an order for two mobile pumping [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Ghana
NEW EDF LOAN

The European Development Fund has just approved a 10 million Euro loan for a new phase in Ghana's National Electrification [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

Burkina Faso
DIRECT CONTRACTS ON WAY

Contracts for the equipment for a 30 MW power station [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

Senegal
WOODSIDE AND ROC OIL TAKE OPTION ON 120,000 SQ.KM. LEASES

The Australian gas company Woodside Petroleum and the Australian junior [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

Mauritania
DANA PETROLEUM FOLLOWS IN FOOTSTEPS OF HARDMAN AND PARTNERS

The small British oil company Dana Petroleum recently acquired blocks [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

Nigeria
STILL NO GREEEN LIGHT FOR AMENAM-KPONO

An official green light from the Nigerian authorities for the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

Nigeria
SHELL LOOKS FOR ELUSIVE HIGH PRESSURE JACK-UP

Shell has again invited bids for provision of a jack-up [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

Nigeria
CONSOLIDATED FIXES SAIPEM RIG

Consolidated Oil has fixed the Saipem semi-submersible Scarabeo 4 to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

West Africa
JUST 12 DEEP OFFSHORE RIGS IN REGION

The deepwater semi-submersible Ocean Valiant has completed drilling off Angola [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

Liberia
THE PROMISED LAND

On May 18 president Charles Taylor signed a contract giving the U.S. company Freedom Gold a 900 sq.km. exploration concession [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.1999

West Africa
WAGP PUSHES AHEAD

A feasibility study on the West African Gas Pipeline project that the scheme's promoters handed to the German company Pipeline [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.1999

Ivory Coast
TWO NEW GOLD EXPLORATION LICENSES

Ashanti Goldfields Corp. has been given a gold exploration permit [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.1999

Senegal
SOUTH AFRICA'S DRD MAKES DEBUT

Hargraves Resources, a small Australian mining company that was taken [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.1999

Equatorial Guinea
MOBIL PLANS THREE EXPLORATION WELLS

Mobil has a requirement for a semi to drill up [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.1999

Nigeria
TOTAL TO USE SEDCO 709

Total will use the deepwater semi Sedco 709 as previously [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.1999

Nigeria
SEDCO FOREX WON'T COLD STACK TRIDENT VI

Sedco Forex has now opted not to cold stack its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.1999

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