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West Africa

Ghana
BUILD-UP FOR KONONGO AND PRESTEA

Owing to new discoveries the Konongo mining concession should boost its production sufficiently to turn Ghana Gold Mines, which acquired [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.1995

Ghana
BRAKE ON LPG CONSUMPTION?

Is the government about to apply a brake on the consumption of liquified petroleum gas in Ghana? Tsatsu Tsikata, managing [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.1995

Gabon, Ivory Coast
CFD LOANS

The Caisse Francaise de Développement (CFD) has just granted three loans to Ivory Coast and Gabon for works projects concerning [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.1995

Benin
DANES TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ELECTRICITY AND TRANSPORTS

The Danish cooperation agency DANIDA's loans to Benin will rise [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.1995

Nigeria
MOBIL CHARTERS C E THORNTON FOR TWO YEARS

Mobil is waiting for NNPC approval to award a firm [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.1995

Ghana
OBOTAN TARGETS 80,000 OZ.

Associated Gold Fields (AGF) hopes to be able to put its Obotan gold mine near the town of Ebiram west [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Nigeria
REGIONAL GASLINE PACT SIGNED

An agreement to build a regional gas pipeline tying Benin, Togo and Ghana into the fields in Nigeria's Escravos basin [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

West Africa
SHORTAGE OF JACK-UPS

Companies are beginning to feel the pinch from a shortage of jack-up platforms in the West African offshore. In Senegal, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Ghana
JAPANESE LOAN FOR TANO

Japan has offered the Ghana National Petroleum Corp. (GNPC) a $120 million soft loan to partly finance the future gas-fuelled [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Nigeria
DEEP OFFSHORE DISCOVERY

Statoil has made a discovery with the first exploration well in the deep Nigerian offshore. The state-owned Norwegian company, operating [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Nigeria
ASHLAND EXTENDS GLOMAR ADRIATIC IX CONTRACT

Ashland has fixed the jack-up Glomar Adriatic IX for a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Niger
CANADIAN "JUNIOR" IN LIPTAKO

Following Australia's Etruscan and the Ghanaian group AGC (AEM 164), [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Benin
NEW SECTION OF WORK TO START

A new section of work will begin by the end [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Burkina Faso, Ghana
OIL PIPELINE PLANNED

An oil pipeline is going to be built to link [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Equatorial Guinea
SEMI-SUB MOBIL

Singapore for Mobil. Mobil, which needed a semi-sub to back [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Spotlight | West Africa
30 DEVELOPMENTS BY YEAR 2000

In addition to 13 developments already underway, 17 will probably be carried out by the year 2000 in West Africa between Cameroon and Namibia. These 30 new fields can be expected to total 1.28 billion recoverable barrels but Congo and [.

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Equatorial Guinea
TWICE LUCKY FOR MOBIL

In August Mobil successfully concluded a series of two initial appraisal wells on its Zafiro discovery dating from March and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Nigeria
ETPM LANDS MOBIL CONTRACT

The joint company McDermott-ETPM has landed one of the biggest contracts for which it had been bidding in recent months. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Nigeria
OFON PROJECT CONFIRMED

Elf Aquitaine announced officially in early August that its affiliate Elf Petroleum Nigeria had begun proceeding with the development of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Niger
AGC AND ETRUSCAN ON THE MOVE

Ashanti Goldfield's arrival in Niger was confirmed in late August when the Ghanaian firm, which is currently expanding internationally. was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Senegal
BRAWL OVER SABODALA

A corporate brawl has broken out following the announcement by Australia's Normandy group that the La Source Compagnie Minière which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Nigeria
TEXACO CONTRACTS GLOMAR ADRIATIC IX

Texaco has fixed the jack-up Glomar Adriatic IX for a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Nigeria
ABACAN OPTS FOR TRIDENT VII

Abacan has issued a letter of intent to Sedco Forex [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Nigeria
SHELL FIXES LEWIS DUGGER

Shell has signed a letter of intent to take the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Ghana
MANAGEMENT CONTRACT FOR ABOADSE

Management of the Aboadse combined cycle power station will be [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

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