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West Africa

Ghana
FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR KONONGO

A freeze in production at the Konongo gold mine now appears to be only temporary following an announcement by its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.1997

Guinea, Liberia
ROCKS ON THE IRON ROUTE

The battle lines are becoming clear in the seemingly inevitable clash of political and economic interests -- both external and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.1997

Ghana
PMMC EXPERIMENT

To improve its recovery rate of small-scale gold production, Ghana's Precious Minerals Marketing Corporation is experimenting with an incentive system [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.1997

Ghana
VRA FACES MAJOR LOSS

The Volta River Authority (VRA) says it will incur an estimated loss of over 120 billion cedis ($6.6 million) by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.1997

Nigeria
MOBIL FIXES NEW JACK-UPS

No sooner had Mobil Nigeria released the C.E. Thornton than it was back in the market looking for a replacement [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.1997

Equatorial Guinea
ZAFIRO TO JUMP TO 120,000 BPD

Production on Zafiro (Mobil operator, UMC) which began in August, 1996 is expected to reach 80,000 bpd at the end [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.1997

Mauritania
REX DIAMOND IN REGUIBAT

Following on the heels of Ashton Mining, which won a concession measuring close to 60,000 sq.km. on the Reguibat plateau, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.1997

Mauritania
GUELB MOGHREIN TO START IN 1999

Australia's General Gold Resources has handed Kvaerner of Norway the engineering and development contract for its Guelb Moghrein copper-gold project. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.1997

West Africa
UPDATE FOR PROBE SEISMIC SURVEY

To meet growing interest in the West African offshore, Geco [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.1997

Nigeria
DOUBTS OVER ESCRAVOS GAS PROJECT'S SECOND PHASE

Chevron announced that a shipment of LPG left the Escravos [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.1997

Spotlight | Nigeria
EUROMED HUB FOR NIGERIAN GAS

What has Nigerian gas got in common with the Euromed system? Answer: a gas "hub" in France for the West European market. French state secretary for industry Christian Pierret raised the possibility during the Association Technique du Gaz en France [.

Subscribers only Energy 01.10.1997

Nigeria
NNPC CONCERNED

There are early signs that NNPC is becoming concerned about the drift of drilling units out of Nigeria and the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.10.1997

West Africa
RATES SURGE

Charter rates for jack-ups in West Africa have leaped by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.10.1997

Benin
ABACAN TO INCREASE ITS INTERESTS

AEM understands that the Canadian company Abacan has begun negotiating with the Benin government and Addax Petroleum to buy the [...]