ANGOLA • WITCH HUNT - 16/01/1992 - Africa Energy Intelligence

Angola
KUITO STARTS PRODUCING

Although it was four or five weeks behind time, the production start-up on Kuito by Chevron on Jan. 5 constituted [...]

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Spotlight | Africa, United States
TIME FOR TRANSPARENCY

In denouncing the secretive practices of the oil industry in its report "A Crude Awakening" (AEM 265), Global Witness has undoubtedly put paid to the impression created by its previous report on diamonds that it was banging away exclusively at [.

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Angola
HITCHES WITH NEWBUILD

Elf Exploration Angola's eighth find on block 17 after that of Cravo in early September is going to have to [...]

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Angola
PRIDE/SONANGOL JV BUYS JACK-UP

AEM understands that Sonamer Angola, a 51/49 joint venture between [...]

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Angola
KIAME PRODUCES NEARLY 8,800 BPD AND KIABO CONTINUES

The small Kiame oil field which was put into production [...]

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Angola
PRIDE AFRICA ON THE WAY

The 51-49% joint venture between Pride International and Sonangol that owns the drillship Pride Africa has taken delivery of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.1999

Angola
TECHNIP'S LOCAL CONTENT CARD

Technip plans to set up an engineering affiliate in Luanda in which Angola's national oil company, Sonangal, will hold a [...]

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Angola
FINAL ULTRA DEEP AWARDS SOON

Already postponed several times, the final distribution of stakes on the first blocks in Angola's ultra deep offshore - 31, [...]

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New Zealand
SONANGOL EYES EXPLORATION VENTURE

The state-owned Angolan oil company Sonangol is thinking of taking [...]

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Angola
PSA'S SIGNED FOR THREE BLOCKS

The government announced just before the New Year that it had signed three PSA's concerning blocks 21, 22 and 24 [...]

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Angola
BLOCK O TO PROVIDE 600,000 BPD

Initial development of the Kuito field on Angola's block 14 is going to be put back relative to earlier indications [...]

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Angola
SONANGOL TO MARKET PRODUCTS IN NAMIBIA AND SOUTH AFRICA

The state-owned Angolan company Sonangol plans to start marketing oil [...]

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Canada
SONANGOL MOVES IN

The state-owned Angolan oil company Sonangol was given a green light by president Laurent Kabila on Sept. 29 to set [...]

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Angola
FOURTH DISCOVERY ON BLOCK 17

On Sept. 3 Elf announced its fourth discovery on block 17 in the deep Angolan offshore, Lirio. It follows Girassol [...]

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Angola
OPERATORS READY TO SIGN

The government is shortly to sign contracts with the operators chosen for blocks 23, 24 and 25 in the middle [...]

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Angola
ROSA 1 DOES IT AGAIN

Elf's Rosa-1 well in block 17 that targets a distinct part of the structure on which Girasol, the first discovery [...]

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Angola
SONANGOL BUYS STAKE IN RIG

Pride International has signed a joint venture accord with Sonangol for the ownership of the deepwater drillship Pride Africa that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.1998

Spotlight | Africa
CHEVRON'S ANGOLAN ELEPHANT HAS FOOT IN CONGO

Angola has a great future owing to its oil, diamonds and other natural resources. But one factor in its stabilization is the Democratic Republic of Congo, where its new allies have closed the door to UNITA, while another factor in [.

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Angola
CONTRACT EXTENDED FOR PETROBRAS XI

Chevron-Gulf has extended its contract with the jack-up Petrobras XI [...]

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Saudi Arabia
ARAMCO DROPS PETROGAL

Saudi Aramco announced on Sept. 23 that negotiations on an agreement in July to take a 27.5% in Petrogal, Portugal's [...]

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Spotlight | Africa
START TO GIRASOL CONTRACTING

Elf had long thought of helping to finance a deep-water drilling unit for work in Angola's Block 17 in view of the scarcity of rigs adapted to the job and it has now clinched an agreement with Pride-Foramer to that [.

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Angola
HOUSING PROJECT ON THE MOVE

Plan to build homes for executives south of Luanda that [...]

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Angola
MONEY IN ESCROW FOR CABINDA

The U.S. Eximbank has guaranteed a loan of $86,6 million [...]

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Angola
DISCOVERY IN BLOCK 2/92

What had only been sketchy and unconfirmed news of a discovery in mid-May was transformed last week into a true [...]

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Angola
SONANGOL KEEPS OCEAN PRODUCER ON KIABO

Sonangol has issued a four-year extension starting on Jan. 1 [...]

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South Africa
TOTAL IN MARKET FORCES FRAY

Total has no intention of watching a major shakeup in the South African oil market from the sidelines if the [...]

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Morocco
CATCHING THE TRADE WINDS

Morocco's Office National de l'Electricité chose the occasion of Jacques Chirac's lighting visit to Morocco on July 19 during an [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

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

Algeria, Nigeria
GAS EQUATION

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

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Sudan
FRESH START FOR PROJECT

Elusive rumors that Saudi Arabian interests might be involved in a solution to the Arakis project were confirmed at last [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Angola
NEW WELLS ON KIABO

Sonangol Pesquisa & Producao is planning two new wells to build up production on Kiabo after this year. By putting [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.07.1995

Spotlight | Russia, Sudan
RUSSIANS BACK IN BUSINESS

Having hung around too long for Arakis to raise the $300 million needed its the Heglig-Port Sudan oil line project, Sudan signed an agreement in April with the Russian oil company Yukos and an engineering firm to build the facility [.

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France
VALOT NAMED BOSS OF TOTAL EXPLORATION-PRODUCTION

Daniel Valot has been named managing director of Total's Exploration-Production [...]

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Angola
NEW LOGISTIC PUSH

A new offshore logistic base will be built in Luanda port in a move that coincides with efforts to repair [...]

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Spotlight | Madagascar
ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Marked on June 10 by the largest opposition demonstration seen in Antananarivo since last year, the campaign for the impeachment of the head of state Albert Zafy, which opposition MPs are now threatening to continue inside parliament, has rekindled the [.

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Somalia
TWO-FACTION AGREEMENT

Somali businessman Osman Hassan Ali (aka Atto), who represents the US oil major Conoco in Mogad-iscio and was earlier the [...]

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Somalia
DIVORCE IN THE AIR

Somali businessman Osman Hassan Ali (aka Ato) has made it official: on May 8 he announced in Mogadiscio that he [...]

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United States
KENYA-BORN EXECUTIVE TO HEAD CALTEX

David Law Smith, a 55-year-old executive born in Kenya, will [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Angola
BLOCK 14 PSA SIGNED

A production sharing agreement for Block 14 was signed at the end of February. The accord had been put back [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

Eritrea
AFEWORKI VISITS USA

Eritrean head of state Isaias Afwerki began a three-week visit to the United States on January 14 during which he [...]

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Nigeria
ACCIDENT ON MOBIL'S UBIT PLATFORM

An inquiry was set up immediately by Mobil Producing Nigeria [...]

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Spotlight | Madagascar
WARNING FOR THE REVEREND

Breaking with their customary political immobility, head of state Albert Zafy and prime minister Francisque Ravony this week slapped a first warning on national assembly chairman Reverend Richard Andriamanjato by firing his protégé, central bank governor Raoul Ravelomanana, the man [.

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Angola
SONANGOL-GLOBAL MARINE JV

The government has given a green light to a move by Sonangol and the U.S. drilling contractor Global Marine to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.12.1994

Angola
GARY SMITH REPORT A DAMP SQUIB?

A "Report on Sonangol and Angolan Oil Dealing" signed Gary [...]

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Gabon
OXY TO DRILL IN 900M

Occidental Petroleum appears ready to pull out all the stops technically on its first series of three wells in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.12.1994

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

"The government has signed with ENH," declared Mario Marques, managing director of Mozambique's Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos. However, it was not with ENH but with Enron that Mozambique had signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the Pande gas deposit, [.

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Angola
DEVELOPMENTS RESUME ON BLOCK 2

Although Texaco's recent inquiries involving the drilling rigs it will need in Angola sowed some confusion in oil services circles [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Ethiopia
AFAR EXPLORATION'S MAJOR GAMBLE

Afar Exploration is seeking a partner among other independants for a farm out before proceeding with a contractual well that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.09.1994

Sierra Leone
DE BEERS ARRIVES BY SEA

Up until now De Beers and Anglo American studiously avoided any comment on reports they were interested in small Sierra [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.08.1994

Angola
BLOCKS 14, 15 AND 1 SOON SIGNED

Companies that work together on the offshore Cabinda block, operator Chevron, Sonangol, Agip and Elf, met with oil minister Albina [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.1994

Madagascar
NEW YORK LIES JUST OVER THERE...

In the first three months of 1994, no less than ten businessmen went to see the trade attache at the [...]

Subscribers only 11.06.1994

Angola
SONANGOL-PETROGAL 1991 PACT APPROVED

The Angolese government recently gave its green light to an [...]

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Angola
ADB LOAN FOR SONANGOL EXPECTED THIS YEAR

A $60 million loan that the African Development Bank is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.1994

Gabon
OIL MINISTER WITH A WORLD BANK PROFILE

Paul Toungui has been given the mines-enery and hydraulic resources [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.1994

Congo
AGIP CONGO TO REMAIN AND OXY ASKED TO EXPLORE

Agip Congo is determined to push ahead with exploration and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.03.1994

Angola, France
QUICK TOUR

Apart from a first meeting with Philippe Jaffré since the latter's appointment as boss of Elf Aquitaine (AEM 125) Angolese [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.03.1994

Angola
100% SONANGOL

The original well and one of two appraisal wells drilled by Sonangol on its first development project have been producing [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.03.1994

Angola
SONANGOL RANKED FIRST

Sonangol is the leading state oil company in central Africa, according to Wood Mackenzie's latest annual update of companies operating [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.03.1994

Sudan
RIEK MACHAR THENY DHURGON

During a tour of Europe to seek political support and financial aid, the leader of one of Sudan's opposition movements, [...]

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Zaire
COUNTING ON FRIENDS

Libya will ship oil products to Zaire in coming weeks, announced Bachkir Saleh following a meeting at Gbadolite on Dec. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1994

Equatorial Guinea
NEW GOVERNMENT

The new government of Equatorial Guinea appointed by Silvestre Siale [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1994

Spotlight | Angola
OUTLOOK FOR OIL

Angola's oil output will drop by 6% this year following a production shutdown on the Sohio on-shore block (operated by Fina) and partial halt on Block 2 in offshore Angola (Texaco, operator) due to the civil war.

Subscribers only Energy 16.11.1993

Angola
ADB LOAN FOR SONANGOL

Planned for several years, the internal shakeup of Sonangol will be backed by the African Development Bank and other donor [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.11.1993

Libya
OILINVEST: NEW PARTNERS

Rather than going exclusively to the Italian groups Armani, Montanari and Triboldi as had initially been indicated, the 55% of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.11.1993

Angola, Gabon
SONANGOL DROPS GNPC

Sonangol has signed two agreements to put field 4/26 into production. They take the place of an accord Sonangol had [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.10.1993

Cameroon
YAOUNDE IN NEW PUSH

The managing director of Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH), Adolphe Moudiki, announced a few days ago that the state-owned company [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.10.1993

Madagascar
SECURITY BOOM

The United States embassy in Madagascar has signed a contract with Securmad covering the security of embassy buildings, personnel and [...]

Subscribers only 11.09.1993

Zaire
NEW QUARREL OVER PRICES

Oil companies are "deliberately orchestrating an artificial shortage of motor fuel in the country," declared Yoka Lokondo, spokesman for Faustin [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.09.1993

Nigeria
NEW MINISTER AND STATE SECRETARY FOR OIL

Donald Etiebet, a trained geologist who made a fortune in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.09.1993

Spotlight | Algeria
NEW RACE AGAINST TIME

The Mafia-style murder of Kasdi Merbah on Saturday made it clear that the new government to be formed this week following the dismissal of Prime Minister Belaid Abdesslam and his replacement by Redha Malek is unlikely to escape from the [.

Subscribers only Energy 25.08.1993

Mozambique
OILY MANOEUVRES

The recent creation of a new fuel distribution company in Mozambique, Topoil SA, a joint venture between Total Oil Products [...]

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Comoros islands
KNOTTY ISSUE

A meeting was scheduled for Paris this week between officials from EDF-International and a Comoros Islands delegation led by Youssouf [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.1993

France
BERNARD ESAMBERT TIPPED FOR ELF CHAIRMANSHIP

Many insiders believe Bernard Esamberg is osition to take over [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.05.1993

South Africa
MOSSREF SHIPS ALCOHOL TO BRAZIL

Mossref is presently selling all of the alcohol by-product turned out in its installations to Brazil, a spokesman from the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.04.1993

Nigeria
NEW PROJECTS OUTLINED

Nigeria may find itself exporting gas to Ghana. Talks on such a project will get underway before the end of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.03.1993

Spotlight | Nigeria, North Africa
GAS: THE AWAKENING

Forecasts of a sharp rise in European demand for gas have spurred a revival in African LNG projects at a time when Nigeria's plans seem likely to be put on ice, perhaps for several years.

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.1993

Spotlight | Madagascar
ECONOMIC DEADLINE

The transition towards a third republic in Madagascar, has kicked off with the electoral victory of Albert Zafy in the presidential may well turn out to be none too smooth from an economic point of view, given that the country's [.

Subscribers only 20.02.1993

Spotlight | Angola
EVER-RELIABLE PARTNERS

Three weeks after the fall of the Soyo logistic base, oil production in Angola is entirely the work of two operators, Cabinda Gulf Oil (Chevron) and Elf Angola, which are also alone in being able to pursue exploration and development.

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.1993

Spotlight | Comoros islands
SHADY STOCK DEALINGS IN US

The grandiose projects of a United States-based oil company in Colorado, Transamerican Petroleum Corporation (TPC), that were to be realized in the Comoros Islands, are going to be used in a game of speculation on the United States second market.

Subscribers only 06.02.1993

Spotlight | Somalia
FRANCE PULLING OUT THE STOPS

With a view to ensuring that the Americans are not the only ones to get in on the diplomatic act in Somalia, and looking ahead to the time when the United Nations will take charge of Operation Restore Hope there, [.

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Somalia
A REAL SCOOP

Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Philips divided up the cake by obtaining permits covering "two thirds of Somalia" before the overthrow [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.1993

Nigeria
NLNG'S FINANCIAL WOES

A major rift between the IMF and Nigeria surfaced in early January, shedding an even grimmer light on Nigeria's difficulty [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.01.1993

Angola
AGREEMENT SIGNED FOR BLOCK 2/92 (TOTAL)

Ever since Texaco decided at the end of 1991 to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.12.1992

Spotlight | Sudan
A MURKY TALE

Several new twists have been added to the jumble of Sudanese projects revolving around Chevron's discoveries. Within the space of a few days the political-industrial-financial saga took on dimensions far beyond what would be considered normal for a country that [.

Subscribers only Energy 24.12.1992

Sudan
THE BATTLE OF MALAKAL

A spokesman for the Nasir faction of the Sudan People's liberation Army (SPLA) in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, Akol Deng [...]

Subscribers only 31.10.1992

Madagascar
RALLYING ROUND "TRANSITIONAL POPE"

Madagascar's former foreign minister, Jacques Rabemananjara, has announced he is to stand in the presidential election on November 25. Backed [...]

Subscribers only 24.10.1992

Spotlight | East Africa
NEW FRONT LINE

Aid from the Sudanese government to the extension of Islamic fundamentalism in Eastern Africa is becoming an increasingly greater source of concern to different circles. Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, moving slowly down the road to multi-party political systems and economic [.

Subscribers only 24.10.1992

Angola
EXXON WITH SHELL ON BLOCK 16

Oil minister Joao Landoite has indicated that Shell will be joined by Exxon on Angola's Block 16, according to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.10.1992

West Africa
THE BALANCE OF FORCES

A survey carried out by the British stockbroker County Natwest Wood Mackenzie (CNWM) has confirmed the extreme concentration of oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.1992

Angola
A SECOND REFINERY?

Angolese oil and energy minister Joao Landoite has come out [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.1992

Algeria
ABDESSELAM MINUS LAOUSSINE

The appointment of Belaid Abdessalam, the "architect of Algeria's industrialization," as prime minister on July 8 does not signal a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.07.1992

Spotlight | Algeria
BAD TIMING

News that Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria's High State Committee, had been assassinated reached London in the early afternoon of June 29 when senior Sonatrach officials were presenting details of Algeria's first licencing round at the Intercontinental hotel.

Subscribers only Energy 09.07.1992

Nigeria
SHAKE-UP AT THE TOP

A major shakeup among top officials of Nigeria's state-run oil company has followed quickly on the heels of the resignation [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.06.1992

Spotlight | Angola
UPSTREAM CONTRACT WITH GHANA

The state-owned Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and its Angolese counterpart, Sonangol, have signed a highly original accord for the development of two small fields in the Angolese offshore. A "south-south" agreement, the pact ties a oil-importing country to an [.

Subscribers only Energy 11.06.1992

Sudan
Hassan Al Tourabi attacked

The leader of the National Islamic Front (NIF), Hassan Al Tourabi, who was on a private visit in Canada after [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.06.1992

Spotlight | France
TOTAL GROUP "DECONTROLLED"

To what extent will the reduction in French government control over Total influence the group's investment decisions in Africa or its choices between Africa and the other regions where it operates? The government's powers over Total are destined to wane [.

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.1992

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Virtus Minerals

Paul Kagame

Savannah Energy

Denis Sassou-Nguesso

Spotlight | Angola WITCH HUNT

As Angola's political parties prepared to gather in Luanda for an all-party conference on Jan. 14, an opposition movement set up recently, the FPD, planned to call for career guarantees for executives in State companies.

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Saudi Arabia ARAMCO DROPS PETROGAL

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Ghana KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

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Madagascar NEW YORK LIES JUST OVER THERE...

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Angola ADB LOAN FOR SONANGOL EXPECTED THIS YEAR

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Congo AGIP CONGO TO REMAIN AND OXY ASKED TO EXPLORE

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Angola ADB LOAN FOR SONANGOL

Libya OILINVEST: NEW PARTNERS

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Madagascar SECURITY BOOM

Spotlight | Angola
WITCH HUNT

Angola
KUITO STARTS PRODUCING

Spotlight | Africa, United States
TIME FOR TRANSPARENCY

Angola
HITCHES WITH NEWBUILD

Angola
PRIDE/SONANGOL JV BUYS JACK-UP

Angola
KIAME PRODUCES NEARLY 8,800 BPD AND KIABO CONTINUES

Angola
PRIDE AFRICA ON THE WAY

Angola
TECHNIP'S LOCAL CONTENT CARD

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New Zealand
SONANGOL EYES EXPLORATION VENTURE

Angola
PSA'S SIGNED FOR THREE BLOCKS

Angola
BLOCK O TO PROVIDE 600,000 BPD

Angola
SONANGOL TO MARKET PRODUCTS IN NAMIBIA AND SOUTH AFRICA

Canada
SONANGOL MOVES IN

Angola
FOURTH DISCOVERY ON BLOCK 17

Angola
OPERATORS READY TO SIGN

Angola
ROSA 1 DOES IT AGAIN

Angola
SONANGOL BUYS STAKE IN RIG

Spotlight | Africa
CHEVRON'S ANGOLAN ELEPHANT HAS FOOT IN CONGO

Angola
CONTRACT EXTENDED FOR PETROBRAS XI

Saudi Arabia
ARAMCO DROPS PETROGAL

Spotlight | Africa
START TO GIRASOL CONTRACTING

Angola
HOUSING PROJECT ON THE MOVE

Angola
MONEY IN ESCROW FOR CABINDA

Angola
DISCOVERY IN BLOCK 2/92

Angola
SONANGOL KEEPS OCEAN PRODUCER ON KIABO

South Africa
TOTAL IN MARKET FORCES FRAY

Morocco
CATCHING THE TRADE WINDS

Ghana
KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Algeria, Nigeria
GAS EQUATION

Sudan
FRESH START FOR PROJECT

Angola
NEW WELLS ON KIABO

Spotlight | Russia, Sudan
RUSSIANS BACK IN BUSINESS

France
VALOT NAMED BOSS OF TOTAL EXPLORATION-PRODUCTION

Angola
NEW LOGISTIC PUSH

Spotlight | Madagascar
ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Somalia
TWO-FACTION AGREEMENT

Somalia
DIVORCE IN THE AIR

United States
KENYA-BORN EXECUTIVE TO HEAD CALTEX

Angola
BLOCK 14 PSA SIGNED

Eritrea
AFEWORKI VISITS USA

Nigeria
ACCIDENT ON MOBIL'S UBIT PLATFORM

Spotlight | Madagascar
WARNING FOR THE REVEREND

Angola
SONANGOL-GLOBAL MARINE JV

Angola
GARY SMITH REPORT A DAMP SQUIB?

Gabon
OXY TO DRILL IN 900M

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

Angola
DEVELOPMENTS RESUME ON BLOCK 2

Ethiopia
AFAR EXPLORATION'S MAJOR GAMBLE

Sierra Leone
DE BEERS ARRIVES BY SEA

Angola
BLOCKS 14, 15 AND 1 SOON SIGNED

Madagascar
NEW YORK LIES JUST OVER THERE...

Angola
SONANGOL-PETROGAL 1991 PACT APPROVED

Angola
ADB LOAN FOR SONANGOL EXPECTED THIS YEAR

Gabon
OIL MINISTER WITH A WORLD BANK PROFILE

Congo
AGIP CONGO TO REMAIN AND OXY ASKED TO EXPLORE

Angola, France
QUICK TOUR

Angola
100% SONANGOL

Angola
SONANGOL RANKED FIRST

Sudan
RIEK MACHAR THENY DHURGON

Zaire
COUNTING ON FRIENDS

Equatorial Guinea
NEW GOVERNMENT

Spotlight | Angola
OUTLOOK FOR OIL

Angola
ADB LOAN FOR SONANGOL

Libya
OILINVEST: NEW PARTNERS

Angola, Gabon
SONANGOL DROPS GNPC

Cameroon
YAOUNDE IN NEW PUSH

Madagascar
SECURITY BOOM

Zaire
NEW QUARREL OVER PRICES

Nigeria
NEW MINISTER AND STATE SECRETARY FOR OIL

Spotlight | Algeria
NEW RACE AGAINST TIME

Mozambique
OILY MANOEUVRES

Comoros islands
KNOTTY ISSUE

France
BERNARD ESAMBERT TIPPED FOR ELF CHAIRMANSHIP

South Africa
MOSSREF SHIPS ALCOHOL TO BRAZIL

Nigeria
NEW PROJECTS OUTLINED

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