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Senegal
MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR SABODALA?

While the government has just issued an ultimatum to the three companies competing for the Sabodala gold mining property (AEM [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.1996

Benin
SELL-OFF FOR SONACOP

The privatization of Benin's Société Nationale de Distribution des Produits Pétroliers (Sonacop) has been set into motion. Failing to win [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.1996

Nigeria
CONSOLIDATED AND SUMMIT SEEK JACK-UPS

Consolidated Oil is talking directly to a number of contractors [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.1996

Nigeria
CONOCO CHECKS MARKET FOR JACK-UP

Conoco has issued a preliminary inquiry for a jack-up for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.1996

West Africa
MOBIL BRINGS IN NEW SUB

Mobil is carrying through its project to bring an additional semi-submersible to West Africa for work in Equatorial Guinea. The [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.1996

Equatorial Guinea
PETROFINA WOOED BUT NOT WON

According to Equatorial Guinea's ambassador to the European Union, Aurelio Mba Olo Andene, the government is anxious to find new [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.1996

Ghana
FLOTATION FOR WESTERN POWER

The chief executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Tsatsu Tsikata, announced last week that shares in Western Power would [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.1996

Ivory Coast
NEW GOLD EXPLORATION PACT

On Jan. 17 state-owned Sodemi signed an agreement with the South African group Gencor represented by its local affiliate, GATRO-CI, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.1996

Ghana
AGC-AGEM TANDEM AT WORK

The partnership set up by Ashanti Goldfields Corp. (AGC) with AGEM Ltd., affiliate of the Canadian company International African Mining [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.1996

Senegal
17 GOLD EXPLORATION PERMITS

Senegal has just awarded 17 gold exploration permits in the south-east of the country where the Sabodala field, a major [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.1996

Burkina Faso
HIGHER RESERVES AT BOUROUM

Channel Resources, which operates for Canada's Viceroy company on eight gold exploration permits totalling 8,140 sq.km. in Burkina Faso, has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.1996

Gabon, Ivory Coast
AMOCO AND APACHE TO DRILL WITH OCEAN LIBERATOR

Under the terms of new contracts, Amoco in Gabon and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.1996

Equatorial Guinea
HUNT FOR INVESTORS

Equatorial Guinea's mines ministry is seeking investors for gold and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.1996

West Africa
SEMI-SUB SHUFFLE CONTINUES

Elf is in the final stages of negotiations to fix the Reading & Bates semi sub Jim Cunningham, currently in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.1996

Mali, Niger
HYDRO PROJECTS RE-SURFACE

Negotiations are to be held in February between Mali and the World Bank on a new electricity project based mainly [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.1996

Sierra Leone
AMERICAN DIAMOND PROJECT

In a fresh sign of the diamond industry's interest in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.1996

Senegal
GLOMAR ADRIATIC IX TO DRILL FOR PECTEN

The well that Sonat Turnkey is to drill in Senegal [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.1996

Nigeria
CLIFFS LANGLEY FOR ABACAN'S NGO PROJECT

The jack-up Cliffs Langley will be used for Abacan's NGO [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.1996

Ivory Coast
SOLAR ENERGY EQUIPMENT

A company named Afrique Energie Industries (AEI) was set up [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.1996

Mauritania
GENERAL GOLD IN START-UP

The Australian firm General Gold Resources NL has started prospecting for gold over a wholly-owned, 20,000 sq.km. permit in southern [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1996

Mali
SADIOLA TO COST 21% MORE

Estimated development costs for the Sadiola gold mine were revised upwards last year from $250 to $303 million, or a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1996

Ghana
BOLE LIKELY TO BE DEVELOPED

The Australian company Takoradi Gold NL is thinking of launching gold mining operations around Bole, a city in north-west Ghana [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1996

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Work is shortly to begin on the liquefaction plant that Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG) is to build at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1996

Nigeria
STATOIL PUTS BACK PLANS FOR SEMI THIS YEAR

Statoil has no plans at present to try to find [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1996

Senegal
NOBLE JACK-UP DAMAGED DURING TOW

The Noble Drilling jack-up Linn Richardson, which was due to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1996

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