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West Africa

Burkina Faso
SEMAFO MOVES UP TO SEVEN PERMITS

West Africa Mining Exploration Corporation Inc (Société pour l'Exploration Minière en Afrique de l'Ouest, Semafo) signed contracts between August 6 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.1996

Mali
CANADIAN NEWCOMERS

The Canadian company Robex Resources Inc based in Quebec announced last week that it had taken up holdings on two [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.1996

Mali
BHP ASSETS FOR HIGHEST BIDDER

BHP, which returned after having decided to "give up" a few months ago after yet another paralyzing strike in its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.1996

Nigeria
MOBIL LOOKING FOR TENDERS FOR 3-6 JACK-UPS

Mobil has issued tender invitations for long-term contracts for between [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.1996

Ghana
VRA CALLS FOR BIDS

With work now under way on rehabilitating electricity generators, the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.1996

Mali
HIGH GRADINGS ANNOUNCED ON SEGALA

Oliver Gold Corporation of Canada says the assay results from [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.1996

Ivory Coast
ADDAX TENDERS FOR IVORY COAST RIG

Addax has issued a tender invitation for provision of a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.1996

Ivory Coast, Tanzania
DOUBTS ON NICKEL PROJECTS

AME Mineral Economics, a leading Australian research body on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.1996

Ghana
MINK AND TAKORADI GOLD IN ASHANTI

Mink Mineral Resources Inc of Canada and Australia's Takoradi Gold [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.08.1996

Ivory Coast
BOAD LOAN FOR HYDRO STATIONS

The Banque Ouest Africaine de Developpement (BOAD) is to lend 5 billion CFA francs (around $10 million) to Ivory Coast [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.07.1996

Equatorial Guinea
PLANS FOR ZAFIRO

Oceaneering is getting a shipyard in Portugal to put the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.07.1996

Africa, Ivory Coast
DROP IN LA SOURCE'S OUTPUT

The gold mines operated in Africa by La Source produced [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.07.1996

Ivory Coast
ADRIATIC IV ON LOCATION

The Glomar Adriatic IV arrived in Ivory Coast on July [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.07.1996

Guinea-Bissau
PERMIT SIGNED

A Canadian company based in Calgary, Petrobank Energy and Resources, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.07.1996

Nigeria
BUILD-UP FOR ENERGY VENTURES

Energy Ventures Inc. and its drilling contract subsidiary Mallard Drilling are beefing up their drilling barge operations in Nigeria from [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.1996

West Africa
SALTING LEAVES BAD TASTE

The discovery that the Canadian firm Timbuktu Gold Corp. indulged in some serious sample salting when it trumpeted gradings supposedly [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.1996

Ivory Coast
IVORY COAST BUSINESSMAN'S GUIDE

The Ivory Coast's business bureau in France (fax: 33 1 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.1996

Ivory Coast
MAERSK SHOWS INTEREST; PLUSPETROL AND GLOBAL SET UP SHOP

Prime minister Daniel Kablan Duncan indicated that A.P. Moeller, the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.1996

Burkina Faso, Guinea
NEW PERMITS FOR SEMAFO

In late June the West Africa Mining Exploration Corp. (Semafo) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.1996

Ivory Coast
LPG: PETROCI DENIES SIGNING WITH DAHER ET JABER

In response to our article on LPG in Ivory Coast [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.1996

Senegal
CFD LOAN TO RENOVATE BEL AIR; PRIVATE PROJECT

The Caisse Francaise de Developpement agreed in late June to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.1996

Ghana
"PROMISING" START FOR AKIKO GOLD

The Vancouver-based junior Akiko Gold Resources has come up with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.1996

Nigeria
CONTRACTS FOR MCDERMOTT-ETPM

McDermott-ETPM International, a new company formed last year following a re-organization of joint ventures between the American group and the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.1996

Nigeria
ELF NIGERIA BIDS DUE

Tenders were submitted to Elf on June 14 for a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.1996

Gabon, Ivory Coast
AMOCO TO START DRILLING

The Ocean Liberator drilling rig has finished two firm wells [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.1996

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