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Guinea-Bissau, Senegal
SIPETROL AND MONUMENT WIN BLOCK

The acquisition by Sipetrol and Monument Oil & Gas of Block 3 in the Guinea Bissau offshore has been finalized. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Burkina Faso, Ghana
CFD LOAN FOR INTERCONNECTION

The Caisse Française de Developpement (CFD) has simultaneously awarded loans to Ghana and to Burkina Faso for the construction of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Nigeria
ACCORD ON PIPELINE SAID IMMINENT

Already presented as "imminent" in July by a NNPC official, an agreement for the construction of a regional gas pipeline [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Ivory Coast
UMIC SEEKING JACK-UP

United Meridian (UMIC) has invited bids to provide a jack-up [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Nigeria
MOBIL TO RETAIN GLOMAR ADRIATIC VIII

Mobil is negotiating an extension of the jack-up Glomar Adriatic [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Ghana
PROJECT FOR MINE EXPLOSIVES PLANT

The U.S. company Mining Services International (MSI), which chiefly produces [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.1995

Ghana
KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Kwesi Botchwey may owe his downfall to a drillship. The dismissal of Botchwey, a top-rate finance minister who played a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Mauritania
GOLD PROJECT FOR 1998

Production at the Guelg Moghrein copper and gold mining project is currently set to start in March, 1998, AEM has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Guinea
TRACTEBEL TO OVERSEE BOKE

A good 60 companies are jostling for contracts from a project to extend the Boké alumina plant that processes bauxite [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Angola, Nigeria
TEXACO BEATS TOTAL TO PERRO NEGRO 2

While Total recently bought Texaco's distribution assets in West Africa [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Senegal
SONAT TO DRILL FOR SHELL IN NOVEMBER

The turnkey drilling division of Sonat Offshore is negotiating with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Ivory Coast
EECI TO REDUCE CAPITAL

Energie Electrique de Cote d'Ivoire (EECI) a company that represents [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Mauritania
SYSMIN PROJECT UNDERWAY

The Mauritanian government has just obtained a Sysmin loan it requested in the aftermath of last year's inauguration of new [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Ghana
PROJECTS AND PER KWH COSTS

Ghana's electricity consumption is going to climb at an average rate of 7% annually until the year 2000, which is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Ghana, Ivory Coast
GAS PROJECT BACK ON TRACK

In early 1994 sources in Ivory Coast were already touting what they described as a "handful" of small gas prospects [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Algeria, Nigeria
GAS EQUATION

Only if cif prices rise will Sonatrach be able to develop its gas fields sufficiently to overshoot its initial export [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Guinea-Bissau
NEW PERMITS ON OFFER

Four new exploration permits are on offer in Guinea Bissau on the country's continental and the deep offshore. These are [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Nigeria
NNPC CAN'T KEEP PACE

State secretary for oil Kabir Chafe let it be understand 10 days ago that the ebbs and flows of arrears [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Nigeria
SHELL MAY NEED ADDITIONAL SWAMP BARGES

Shell may now proceed with plans to contract up to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Nigeria
CONOCO ENERGY TO TENDER

Conoco Energy is seeking expressions of interest from contractors by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Ivory Coast
PRIVATIZATION MOVES BY SHELL-CI AND SIFAL

Shell Côte d'Ivoire has begun terminating an entire series of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Nigeria
MADE-TO-MEASURE REFORMS FOR OYIBO?

The usual rumors of "commissions and omissions" surrounded the dismissal [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Burkina Faso, Ghana
INTERCONNECTION STUDY SUBMITTED

A study on a high voltage interconnection between Ghana and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Nigeria
INITIAL EUROPEAN FINANCE FOR NGO

The Canadian company Abacan is expected to raise $Can. 30 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Nigeria
TWO WELL CONTRACT FOR LEWIS DUGGER

Noble Drilling's barge Lewis Dugger has just begun a two-well [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

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