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Guinea-Bissau
MANAGEMENT CONTRACT BY MID-1995

Some delay had cropped up in the process leading to the privatization of Electricidade e Agua's (EAGB) management via a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.11.1994

Ghana
ABOSSO UNDERTAKES MAJOR PUSH

Abosso Goldfields Ltd. (AGL) plans to start developing its gold mine project near Damang in central Ghana and hopes to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.11.1994

Nigeria
FRICTION WITH OPERATORS

As they already did in the second quarter of this year, oil companies working in Nigeria -- including Shell which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.11.1994

Mali
EDM MANAGEMENT CONTRACT SIGNED

The Mali government has just signed a contract turning management [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.11.1994

Ivory Coast
ONLY THREE TURBINES FOR CIPREL?

A contract in late July that gave birth to the Compagnie Ivoirienne de Production d'Electricite (CIPREL), a company controlled by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Ivory Coast
FALCONBRIDGE PROJECT ADVANCES

Falconbridge plans by en-october to start an industrial feasibility study on mining nickel in the Biankouma region. It will cost [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Ghana
ON ALL FRONTS

The Ghanian government has hammered out an "exhaustive" plan to tackle the production problems of the Volta River Authority (VRA) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Nigeria
CHEVRON LINES UP SHALLOW WATER JACK-UP

Chevron has awarded a contract to the Santa Fe rig [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Nigeria
ABCAN BRINGS CANADIAN OCCIDENTAL INTO FOUR BLOCKS

The Canadian independent Abacan has signed a farm-out accord with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Ghana, Morocco
ENERGY TAXATION EXAMINED

The OPEC Fund for International Development has published a work [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Ivory Coast
GOVERNMENT REDUCES SHARES IN ELF OIL CI

The Ivory Coast government will reduce its stake in Elf [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Nigeria

Shell has issued invitations to tender that had been expected [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Cape Verde
SOLAR ENERGY LOAN

A loan estimated provisionally at 507,000 Ecus (roughly $700,000) will [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Nigeria
TESTING WATERS WITH PRICE RISE

Nigeria's military government announced a sudden 400% increase in the price of gasoline on Oct. 3-4 in what appeared a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.1994

Ivory Coast
CFD LOANS FOR CIPREL

At the latest meeting of its board of trustees, the Caisse Francaise de Developpement endorsed a Ffr75 million loan to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.1994

Nigeria
LNG: TECHNIP WINS NOD

Nigerian Liquid Natural Gas (NLNG) Ltd. cleared up a lot of uncertainty over a major contract for the gas liquefaction [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.1994

Guinea
GARAFIRI PROJECT TO BE SHELVED?

A plan to build a hydroelectric dam at Garafiri could well be hit by a new delay at the very [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.1994

Ivory Coast
UMC ON BLOCKS CI-1 AND 2

United Meridian Corporation has just signed a production sharing agreement that remains to be confirmed for block CI-1 and 2 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.1994

Equatorial Guinea
UMC'S SEMI-SUB ARRIVES

Mobilized from the U.S. Gulf of Mexico to drill UMC's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.1994

Mali
SADIOLA TO PRODUCE OWN ELECTRICITY

The Société d'Exploitation des Mines d'Or de Sadiola (SEMOS) will [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.1994

Nigeria
ASHLAND TO RESUME DRILLING

Ashland is close to fixing a semi-submersible, possibly the Nymphea [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.1994

Nigeria
RILWANU LUKMAN AS SECRETARY-GENERAL?

The Nigerian government has officially presented the candidature of former [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.1994

Nigeria

The Wilrig semi-submersible Drillmar 1 appears to be emerging as [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.1994

Europe, Mali
LOAN FOR AAC PROJECT IN MALI

The European Investment Bank is considering a 35 million Ecu ($43 M) loan for the Sadiola gold mine project spearheaded [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.09.1994

Nigeria
DRILLING PLATFORMS RESUME WORK

All the offshore rigs put on standby because of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.09.1994

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