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THERMODYN COMPRESSION MODULE FOR COBO-PAMBI

The $13 million module will be supplied by Framatome's turbine [...]

Published on 21/09/1993 at 10:00 GMT

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Energy

Ghana, Nigeria
CHEVRON FORMULA FOR WAGP

Chevron has been officially named head of the West African Gas Pipeline project linking Nigeria, Ghana, Benin and Togo. The [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Angola
TECHNIP'S LOCAL CONTENT CARD

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Mozambique
ENRON SIGNS ON DOTTED LINE

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Uganda
VICE-PRESIDENT ACCUSED

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Subscribers only Politics 03.04.1999

South Africa
BLACK BUSINESS PETROLEUM FIRM

Although the South African authorities do not see foresee liberalizing imports of petroleum products before 2002, Afric Oil Pty Ltd [...]

Subscribers only 20.03.1999

Sudan
CHINESE LABOUR FOR EL OBEID

For several weeks, the inhabitants of El Obeid have been complaining of the behaviour of Chinese labourers working on construction [...]

Subscribers only 20.02.1999

Angola
DALIA PRE-SELECTION IN MID-99

The main bidding for pre-selection for the main development contracts on Dalia, the second of four discoveries on Angola's block [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.1998

Africa
NEW SAIBOS VESSEL TO BE ORDERED

Six shipyards are competing to build a multi-service field development [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.10.1998

Angola
THIRD SUPPLY BOAT ORDERED FOR GIRASSOL

The Marseilles-based offshore services company SURF will provide a third [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.1998

Africa
DOUBTS ON R&B FALCON/TEXACO DEAL

The drilling contractor R&B Falcon may be negotiating the possible cancellation of a three to five year drilling contract with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.1998

Angola
GIRASOL GROUP FINALIZES PLANS

The Girasol team is finally in place. Not in Professor Tournesol's den at the Belgian comic strip character Tintin's place [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.1998

Ghana
WESTERN POWER'S PROJECT

The Western Power private power station project being mounted at the behest of the Ghana National Petroleum Corp. will be [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.1998

Spotlight | South Africa
CATALOGUE OF FRENCH HOPES

In addition to huge arms contracts and civil offset which are linked (ION N° 816), French industrialists are gunning for some big markets in the Republic of South Africa and their salesmen took advantage of French head of state Jacques [.

Subscribers only 04.07.1998

Congo
CONTRACTS ON KOMBI-LIKALALA

Elf Congo has just signed new integrated development drilling contracts with Horwell and Sedco Forex for the Kombi-Likalala project. Work [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Sudan
LOTS OF NOISE AROUND OIL

Khartoum is multiplying its efforts to acccredit the idea of a forthcoming take-off of its petroleum industry. At the end [...]

Subscribers only 20.06.1998

Chad
ELF OIL HANDS USA BRIDGE LOGISTIC CONTRACT

Elf Oil Tchad has signed a three year logistic contract [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.1998

Sudan
HI-TEC PROTECTION FOR PIPELINE

For just over a month, a large foreign labour force has been built up in the petroleum-rich region of Bentiu, [...]

Subscribers only 23.05.1998

Angola
ELF ORDERS THIRD RIG

As it was expected to do, Elf has contracted a third deepwater rig for its E&P operations on Angola's Block [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.04.1998

Africa
PRICE DROP'S IMPACT MARGINAL

The fall in oil prices has begun to make itself felt in E&P in general, with a number of small [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.03.1998

Mauritius
CHARIVARI IN OIL

The announcement by Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) last month of the imminence of an agreement for it to set up [...]

Subscribers only 07.03.1998

Ghana
CMS TAKES HALF IN TAKORADI

The U.S. group CMS Energy Corporation has taken a 50% stake in a joint venture that is to own and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.1998

Africa, France
BOUYGUES BEEFS UP ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT CAPACITY

The building, public works and services group Bouygues has taken [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.1998

West Africa
LITTLE IMPACT FOR MERGER

The merger of Reading & Bates and Falcon Drilling which became effective on Jan. 1 with the creation of R&B [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.01.1998

Angola
ACCORD ON SEMI-SUB FOR GIRASOL

Elf signed a long-awaited letter of intent in mid-December with Sedco Forex for a second long term contract concerning drilling [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.12.1997

Angola
ETPM TO BUILD JACKET FOR NEMBA NORTE FOR CHEVRON

The construction yard crated by ETPM in Lobito with Sonangol [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.1997

Nigeria
PONTICELLI & CHAGURI LAND DEALS

The Bordeaux-based French firm Ponticelli recently won a contract in tandem with the Lebanese-Nigerian company IPCO owned by Gilbert and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.1997

Angola
THREE RIGS TO DRILL GIRASOL

The die hasn't absolutely been cast on the drilling system for development wells on Girasol and Dalia, Elf's two discoveries [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.1997

Chad
THE LAST ACT

The government has just officially launched the privatization that will go along with the oil and electricity project based on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.10.1997

Spotlight | Africa
START TO GIRASOL CONTRACTING

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Nigeria
$125M CONTRACT FOR BOS

Two affiliates of Bougues Offshore (BOS) signed a contract last week with Mobil for new construction on Oso in addition [...]

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Sudan
HOW ARAKIS PROMOTES PROJECT

The consortium formed to carry out Arakis' project and made up of the firm's affiliate SPC, the local Sudapet company, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.06.1997

Sudan
ARAKIS OIL PIPELINE

The recently formed consortium (China National Petroleum Corporation, Petronas Carigali [...]

Subscribers only 31.05.1997

Africa, France
GTM TO DROP ETPM

The Lyonnaise des Eaux affiliate GTM-Entrepose is thinking of cutting the link with its offshore oil construction subsidiary ETPM, according [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.1996

Ethiopia
THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

The International Development Association, an affiliate of the World Bank, has begun work on three projects for loans to Ethiopia, [...]

Subscribers only 20.07.1996

Nigeria
CONTRACTS FOR MCDERMOTT-ETPM

McDermott-ETPM International, a new company formed last year following a re-organization of joint ventures between the American group and the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.1996

Sudan
ARAKIS SOLDIERING ON

Arakis Energy Corp has announced two new completions of wells drilled previously by Chevron in the Bentiu 1 formation of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1996

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Work is shortly to begin on the liquefaction plant that Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG) is to build at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1996

West Africa
CONTRACTS FOR ETPM AND SAIBOS

The current oil activity along Africa's west coast has started to be reflected in the order books of ETPM International [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.11.1995

Spotlight | Angola, Congo
ELF'S OPTIMUM SCHEMES

Elf plans to put Nkossa in Congo, the first development in water depths of over 200 meters in Africa, and the central platform of the Combo-Pambi complex in Angola into production almost simultaneously next May.

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.1995

Mozambique
ENRON PUSHING HARD

The US company Enron is pushing hard to get Mozambique's government and Empresca Nacional De Hidrocarbonetos de Mozambique to sign [...]

Subscribers only 28.10.1995

Mauritius
BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

Mauritius' ministers of finance (Rama Sithanen) and energy (Swaley Kassenaly) are expected to be in Paris next week for a [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.1995

West Africa
NEW TIE FOR MCDERMOTT-ETPM

On April 5 the U.S. company McDermott and France's Entrepose pour les Travaux Pétroliers Maritimes, affiliate of GTM-Entrepose which in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.04.1995

Nigeria
FIRMS LINE UP FOR OSO II

A consortium made up of Bouygues Offshore, ABB Lummus Crest and Japan Gasoline Corp. (JGC) has just won a $648 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.02.1995

Nigeria
TERMS SET FOR TSKJ CONTRACT

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Subscribers only Energy 07.12.1994

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 [...]

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Chad
OIL START-UP SET FOR YEAR 2000

Negotiations on launching development of the southern Chad project are pressing ahead, with the first bidding invitations to be issued [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.06.1994

Morocco
PRIVATE SECTOR ROUND STARTS

Bidding in the pre-qualification round for the construction of Morocco's first power stations to be built with private capital was [...]

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Kenya, Uganda
EIB IN PIPELINE PROJECT

Negotiations are underway on a plan calling for the European Investment Bank to finance a technical and economic feasibility study [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.03.1994

Djibouti
PORT REFORM

The managing committee of France's Fonds d'Aide et de Coopération (aid and cooperation fund) agreed on February 10 to make [...]

Subscribers only 19.02.1994

Nigeria
MIXED CAPITAL SOURCE-REFINERY ON TRACK

A project for a fifth oil refinery in Nigeria which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1994

Mozambique
FIRMS TO BE PRIVATISED

A delegation led by Mozambique's prime minister, Mario De Graça Machungo, met with fifty or so representatives of French companies [...]

Subscribers only 18.12.1993

Ghana
TWO STAGES FOR ABOADSE

The combustion turbine and combined cycle power station that the Volta River Authority (VRA) will run at Aboadse near Takoradi [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.12.1993

Angola
EIFFEL AND TECHNIP FOR SECOND PLATFORM ON COBO

Technip announced last week that its affiliate Technip Geoproduction and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.11.1993

Angola
CHEVRON TO HAVE PLATFORMS BUILT IN SOUTH AFRICA

Just as Nelson Mandela's call for the lifting of sanctions [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.10.1993

Congo
BOUYGUES AND ETPM FOR N'KOKSSA

Bouygues and its affiliate Bouygues Offshore are to team up with ETPM to build offshore supports for production and processing [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.08.1993

Algeria, Morocco
NEW PIPELINE WRAPPED-UP

Just as the European Investment Bank announced a 200 million ECU ($240 million) loan on June 29 for the Algerian [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.1993

Spotlight | Ethiopia
THE BALL IS ROLLING

Energy will not be overlooked among Ethiopian projects that are to win wide international backing worth at least $2 billion between now and June, 1994, in keeping with commitments already made ($1.2 billion following a meeting on Nov.

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.1993

Ivory Coast
BOT FOR FOXTROT

As was envisaged from the very start of negotiations in 1991 (AEM 74) a BOT (build-operate-transfer) formula has been chosen [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.01.1993

Israel, Kenya
GAD ZE'EVI

This Israeli businessman, friend and associate of the former Kenyan energy minister, Nicholas Biwott, who left Nairobi last year, to [...]

Subscribers only 26.09.1992

Zaire
INGA-ASWAN: START-UP IN 1994

Lukama Nkunzi, minister for energy and oil in the out-going government of Nguza Karl-I-Bond, announced last month that construction work [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.1992

Algeria
HEADWAY IN GAS PIPELINE PROJECTS

Projects for the extension of the Algerian gas pipeline to Italy (Transmed) and for the new North Africa-Europe pipeline to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.07.1992

Namibia
QUESTIONS OVER ALUMINIUM PROJECT

Windhoek has signed an agreement for the development of gas at Kudu and the construction of an aluminium smelter with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.07.1992

Sudan
CHEVRON SELLS OUT OIL RIGHTS

American oil company Chevron last week confirmed that it had soled its exploration and production rights in Sudan to Concorp [...]

Subscribers only 27.06.1992

Spotlight | Sudan
HEGLIG AND UNITY PROJECT UNVEILED

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Subscribers only Energy 25.06.1992

Mauritius
SUGAR CANE WASTE FOR ENERGY PROJECT

The World Bank last week approved a 15-million dollar loan for a programme aimed at increasing electricity production in Mauritius, [...]

Subscribers only 11.04.1992

Nigeria
LNG: BIDS SUBMITTED IN MAY

French equipment companies could obtain sub-contracting work worth as much as $500 million from the LNG project at Bonny, stated [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.04.1992

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Subscribers only Intelligence Online 01.09.1993

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Ghana, Nigeria CHEVRON FORMULA FOR WAGP

Angola TECHNIP'S LOCAL CONTENT CARD

Mozambique ENRON SIGNS ON DOTTED LINE

Uganda VICE-PRESIDENT ACCUSED

South Africa BLACK BUSINESS PETROLEUM FIRM

Sudan CHINESE LABOUR FOR EL OBEID

Angola DALIA PRE-SELECTION IN MID-99

Africa NEW SAIBOS VESSEL TO BE ORDERED

Angola THIRD SUPPLY BOAT ORDERED FOR GIRASSOL

Africa DOUBTS ON R&B FALCON/TEXACO DEAL

Angola GIRASOL GROUP FINALIZES PLANS

Ghana WESTERN POWER'S PROJECT

Spotlight | South Africa CATALOGUE OF FRENCH HOPES

Congo CONTRACTS ON KOMBI-LIKALALA

Sudan LOTS OF NOISE AROUND OIL

Chad ELF OIL HANDS USA BRIDGE LOGISTIC CONTRACT

Sudan HI-TEC PROTECTION FOR PIPELINE

Angola ELF ORDERS THIRD RIG

Africa PRICE DROP'S IMPACT MARGINAL

Mauritius CHARIVARI IN OIL

Ghana CMS TAKES HALF IN TAKORADI

Africa, France BOUYGUES BEEFS UP ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT CAPACITY

West Africa LITTLE IMPACT FOR MERGER

Angola ACCORD ON SEMI-SUB FOR GIRASOL

Angola ETPM TO BUILD JACKET FOR NEMBA NORTE FOR CHEVRON

Nigeria PONTICELLI & CHAGURI LAND DEALS

Angola THREE RIGS TO DRILL GIRASOL

Chad THE LAST ACT

Spotlight | Africa START TO GIRASOL CONTRACTING

Nigeria $125M CONTRACT FOR BOS

Sudan HOW ARAKIS PROMOTES PROJECT

Sudan ARAKIS OIL PIPELINE

Africa, France GTM TO DROP ETPM

Ethiopia THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Nigeria CONTRACTS FOR MCDERMOTT-ETPM

Sudan ARAKIS SOLDIERING ON

Nigeria LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

West Africa CONTRACTS FOR ETPM AND SAIBOS

Spotlight | Angola, Congo ELF'S OPTIMUM SCHEMES

Mozambique ENRON PUSHING HARD

Mauritius BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

West Africa NEW TIE FOR MCDERMOTT-ETPM

Nigeria FIRMS LINE UP FOR OSO II

Nigeria TERMS SET FOR TSKJ CONTRACT

Nigeria LNG: TECHNIP WINS NOD

Chad OIL START-UP SET FOR YEAR 2000

Morocco PRIVATE SECTOR ROUND STARTS

Kenya, Uganda EIB IN PIPELINE PROJECT

Djibouti PORT REFORM

Nigeria MIXED CAPITAL SOURCE-REFINERY ON TRACK

Mozambique FIRMS TO BE PRIVATISED

Ghana TWO STAGES FOR ABOADSE

Angola EIFFEL AND TECHNIP FOR SECOND PLATFORM ON COBO

Angola CHEVRON TO HAVE PLATFORMS BUILT IN SOUTH AFRICA

Congo BOUYGUES AND ETPM FOR N'KOKSSA

Algeria, Morocco NEW PIPELINE WRAPPED-UP

Spotlight | Ethiopia THE BALL IS ROLLING

Ivory Coast BOT FOR FOXTROT

Israel, Kenya GAD ZE'EVI

Zaire INGA-ASWAN: START-UP IN 1994

Algeria HEADWAY IN GAS PIPELINE PROJECTS

Namibia QUESTIONS OVER ALUMINIUM PROJECT

Sudan CHEVRON SELLS OUT OIL RIGHTS

Spotlight | Sudan HEGLIG AND UNITY PROJECT UNVEILED

Mauritius SUGAR CANE WASTE FOR ENERGY PROJECT

Nigeria LNG: BIDS SUBMITTED IN MAY

PRAGUE, GATEWAY TO THE WEST

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Africa
The sensational rise and spectacular fall of Pefaco casino and hotels

Nigeria
Fertiliser giants Indorama and Dangote in murky waters over urea shortage

Angola
THERMODYN COMPRESSION MODULE FOR COBO-PAMBI

Ghana, Nigeria
CHEVRON FORMULA FOR WAGP

Angola
TECHNIP'S LOCAL CONTENT CARD

Mozambique
ENRON SIGNS ON DOTTED LINE

Uganda
VICE-PRESIDENT ACCUSED

South Africa
BLACK BUSINESS PETROLEUM FIRM

Sudan
CHINESE LABOUR FOR EL OBEID

Angola
DALIA PRE-SELECTION IN MID-99

Africa
NEW SAIBOS VESSEL TO BE ORDERED

Angola
THIRD SUPPLY BOAT ORDERED FOR GIRASSOL

Africa
DOUBTS ON R&B FALCON/TEXACO DEAL

Angola
GIRASOL GROUP FINALIZES PLANS

Ghana
WESTERN POWER'S PROJECT

Spotlight | South Africa
CATALOGUE OF FRENCH HOPES

Congo
CONTRACTS ON KOMBI-LIKALALA

Sudan
LOTS OF NOISE AROUND OIL

Chad
ELF OIL HANDS USA BRIDGE LOGISTIC CONTRACT

Sudan
HI-TEC PROTECTION FOR PIPELINE

Angola
ELF ORDERS THIRD RIG

Africa
PRICE DROP'S IMPACT MARGINAL

Mauritius
CHARIVARI IN OIL

Ghana
CMS TAKES HALF IN TAKORADI

Africa, France
BOUYGUES BEEFS UP ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT CAPACITY

West Africa
LITTLE IMPACT FOR MERGER

Angola
ACCORD ON SEMI-SUB FOR GIRASOL

Angola
ETPM TO BUILD JACKET FOR NEMBA NORTE FOR CHEVRON

Nigeria
PONTICELLI & CHAGURI LAND DEALS

Angola
THREE RIGS TO DRILL GIRASOL

Chad
THE LAST ACT

Spotlight | Africa
START TO GIRASOL CONTRACTING

Nigeria
$125M CONTRACT FOR BOS

Sudan
HOW ARAKIS PROMOTES PROJECT

Sudan
ARAKIS OIL PIPELINE

Africa, France
GTM TO DROP ETPM

Ethiopia
THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Nigeria
CONTRACTS FOR MCDERMOTT-ETPM

Sudan
ARAKIS SOLDIERING ON

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

West Africa
CONTRACTS FOR ETPM AND SAIBOS

Spotlight | Angola, Congo
ELF'S OPTIMUM SCHEMES

Mozambique
ENRON PUSHING HARD

Mauritius
BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

West Africa
NEW TIE FOR MCDERMOTT-ETPM

Nigeria
FIRMS LINE UP FOR OSO II

Nigeria
TERMS SET FOR TSKJ CONTRACT

Nigeria
LNG: TECHNIP WINS NOD

Chad
OIL START-UP SET FOR YEAR 2000

Morocco
PRIVATE SECTOR ROUND STARTS

Kenya, Uganda
EIB IN PIPELINE PROJECT

Djibouti
PORT REFORM

Nigeria
MIXED CAPITAL SOURCE-REFINERY ON TRACK

Mozambique
FIRMS TO BE PRIVATISED

Ghana
TWO STAGES FOR ABOADSE

Angola
EIFFEL AND TECHNIP FOR SECOND PLATFORM ON COBO

Angola
CHEVRON TO HAVE PLATFORMS BUILT IN SOUTH AFRICA

Congo
BOUYGUES AND ETPM FOR N'KOKSSA

Algeria, Morocco
NEW PIPELINE WRAPPED-UP

Spotlight | Ethiopia
THE BALL IS ROLLING

Ivory Coast
BOT FOR FOXTROT

Israel, Kenya
GAD ZE'EVI

Zaire
INGA-ASWAN: START-UP IN 1994

Algeria
HEADWAY IN GAS PIPELINE PROJECTS

Namibia
QUESTIONS OVER ALUMINIUM PROJECT

Sudan
CHEVRON SELLS OUT OIL RIGHTS

Spotlight | Sudan
HEGLIG AND UNITY PROJECT UNVEILED

Mauritius
SUGAR CANE WASTE FOR ENERGY PROJECT

Nigeria
LNG: BIDS SUBMITTED IN MAY