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Guinea
PLAN TO DOUBLE FRIGUIA OUTPUT

The government has adopted measures to reduce taxes and duties for the aluminium company Friguia in a shakeup aimed at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.04.1995

Nigeria
MOBIL CONTINUES BUILD-UP OF JACK-UP FLEET

Mobil is boosting its Nigerian jack-up drilling rig fleet from [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.04.1995

Spotlight | West Africa
E&P BUOYANT

Exploration-production in West Africa is remarkably buoyant despite oil prices that remain soft even though a recovery appears underway. For the countries stretching from Cameroon to Namibia 1994 was very much a "mixed" year. Exploration drilling had never been so [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Benin
EMERGENCY WORK ON GENERATORS

The Société Béninoise d'Electricite et d'Eau (SBEE) is to proceed with the emergency renovation of the two main generators (16 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Ghana
FOUR BIDDERS FOR ABOADSE

Four of the world's biggest electricity equipment suppliers are in the running to build the Aboadse combined cycle power station [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Nigeria
SHELL'S STAND ON OGONI ISSUE

Shell has taken its distance from the Nigerian government amid accusations that the Nigerian army has committed widespread abuses against [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Equatorial Guinea
OIL NEAR NIGERIAN WATERS

After confirming and developing the Panthere and Lion fields that will enable Ivory Coast to once again export oil and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Nigeria
ESCRAVOS GAS PROJECT LAUNCHED

On March 23 Chevron Petroleum Nigeria signed the first contracts worth a total of $320 million for a project to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Nigeria
DISCOVERIES

The Canadian independent Abacan plans "as soon as possible" to put its field labelled NGO in the Nigerian offshore into [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Ivory Coast
UMC RETAINS CE THORNTON

United Meridian (UMC) is using the last extension option it [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Guinea
GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS WORLD BANK MAY WITHHOLD FUNDING

For the first time the government has officially stated the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Nigeria
UNPAID FUEL DEBT COULD FORCE SALE

The British trading company Tramp Oil has had the authorizes [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Senegal
UNEXPECTED HITCH FOR SENELEC

Frequent mistakes in management in public companies form one of the leading arguments of donor countries in favor of privatization, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.1995

Mali
EXPLORATION AGREEMENTS WITH AAC AND RANDGOLD

Mali has signed an exploration agreement with Anmercosa Exploration Ltd. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.1995

Ivory Coast
LION TO START PRODUCING IN APRIL

The Ivory Coast affiliate of United Meridian, UMIC, which operates [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.1995

Senegal
GOLD CONCESSION FOR SAMAX

The British company Samax, which is already involved in a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.1995

Ivory Coast
PROCESSING OF SEISMICS ON BLOCK CI-27 UP FOR BIDS

Operator Apache Cote d'Ivoire Petroleum has issued an invitation to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.1995

Ghana
ABOADSE LAST GOVERNMENT SCHEME

The Aboadse thermic power station will probably be the last built in Ghana by the Volta River Authority (VRA) without [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

Ivory Coast
LAST PART OF VRIDI II PROJECT

The ministry of mines and energy has issued a pre-tender [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

Ghana
GNPC SEEKING DRILLSHIP

Ghana National Petroleum Corp. (GNPC) is understood to have checked [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

Guinea
PARIS REITERATES BACKING FOR GARAFIRI

France's cooperation ministry has stressed the "need to carry out [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

Equatorial Guinea
MOBIL SEEKS RIG

Mobil has circulated a pre-tender inquiry for a floating rig [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

Guinea
SEMINAR ON MINING POLICY

Guinea's ministry of mines and geology and the World Bank [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

Mali
AGC AND JCI WIN CONTRACT FOR KALANA

A consortium made up of the Ghanaian company Ashanti Goldfields [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.02.1995

Nigeria
ABACAN STARTS DEVELOPMENT, THINKS OF EXPLORATION PROGRAMME

The independent Canadian company Abacan is thinking of launching an [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.02.1995

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