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West Africa

Nigeria
RIGS RE-ASSIGNED

As expected, Ashland has declared force majeure on its contract for the semi-submersible rig South Seas Driller after its interests [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.1997

Senegal
LA SOURCE QUITS SABODALA

The board of Societe Miniere de Sabodala (SMS) is expected on Sept. 30 to confirm the sale of La Source's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.1997

Guinea, Liberia
AMALIA'S AMBITIONS

Commonwalth Gold, the London-listed arm of South Africa's Amalia Gold which recently won the right to exclusively develop Liberia's mineral [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.1997

Spotlight | Nigeria
OIL, HEADWAY DESPITE SNAGS

The decision by Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete to cancel Ashland's contracts indeed concerns the four licences on which it operated and wanted to sell to Perenco, sources have confirmed to AEM. The contracts involved not only its partnership with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.07.1997

Liberia
AMALA WINS COUNCIL BLESSINGS

A project that AEM disclosed a few months ago (No. 203) that gives the South African company Amalia a solid [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.07.1997

Equatorial Guinea
ZAFIRO FLAT OUT BY YEAR'S END

The Zafiro field system that was put into production on Aug. 25 of last year will reach its full capacity [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.07.1997

Guinea-Bissau
MANAGEMENT HANDOVER FOR EAGB

A plan to hand over management of Electricidade e Agua de Guinee Bissau appears on track after several years of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.07.1997

Nigeria
A $4.7 BILLION SHOPPING LIST

Regardless of whether NNPC falls behind with cash calls or not Nigeria's offshore equipment market remains huge. That was amply [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.07.1997

Burkina Faso
HIGH RIVER DRILLS ON TAPARKO

The Toronto-based High River Gold Mines Co. is pushing ahead [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.07.1997

Nigeria
TRANSOCEAN DRILLER LEAVING

Transocean Offshore is indicating the potential availability of the semi-submersible [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.07.1997

Mauritania
GUELB MOGHREIN TO START

Mines minister N'Daide Lamine Kayo announced on June 26 that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.07.1997

Equatorial Guinea
EDF STUDIES GAS-FUELLED POWER STATION

Disclosed by AEM in late 1996 (AEM 195), a proposal [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.07.1997

Ivory Coast
CDC TO CREATE FUND

Britain's Commonwealth Development Corp (CDC) plans to create an investment [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.07.1997

Nigeria
PRIDE RECEIVES UTAH (EX NN-1)

Pride Petroleum has taken delivery of the shallow water jack-up [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.07.1997

Europe, Senegal
EURO FUND DECISION IN JULY

The European Development Fund (EDF) will make its decision next month on a 30.7 million Ecu loan to partly finance [...]