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 [.
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The Société Béninoise d'Electricite et d'Eau (SBEE) is to proceed with the emergency renovation of the two main generators (16 [...]
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Four of the world's biggest electricity equipment suppliers are in the running to build the Aboadse combined cycle power station [...]
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Sudan, which lacks external funding for its infrastructure programmes, will use cotton as payment for a study on building a [...]
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Tunisia has just signed a cooperation agreement with China that [...]
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For the first time the government has officially stated the [...]
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The Société Tunisienne de l'Electricité et du Gaz (STEG) has [...]
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The world's leading gold producer, Anglo American Corporation (ACC), is showing a keen interest in Sudan's gold potential. A delegation [...]
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All reports indicate that trading companies like Socodiaz, affiliate of the Antwerp-based company International Diamond Traders, experienced a sharp drop [...]
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Lonrho announced last week that negotiations were underway with Gencor [...]
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Ranger Oil plans to put its Kiame discovery well on Block 4 into production by the end of this year, [...]
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No sooner had a law been adopted to allow the government to sell its stake in Elf Congo than the [...]
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Mobil is planning two wells in the deep Angola offshore in late 1995 and 1996 in depths of 600 and [...]
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The next major production start-up in the Angola offshore this year will be Nemba in Zone B of the Cabinda [...]
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Shell has taken its distance from the Nigerian government amid accusations that the Nigerian army has committed widespread abuses against [...]
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After confirming and developing the Panthere and Lion fields that will enable Ivory Coast to once again export oil and [...]
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On March 23 Chevron Petroleum Nigeria signed the first contracts worth a total of $320 million for a project to [...]
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The Canadian independent Abacan plans "as soon as possible" to put its field labelled NGO in the Nigerian offshore into [...]
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Madagascar's Office des Mines Nationales et des Industries Strategiques (OMNIS) has signed a contract with the British firm Intera for [...]
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David Law Smith, a 55-year-old executive born in Kenya, will [...]
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Sonatrach has issued an international invitation to tender that will [...]
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The Italian company CTIP has won an engineering, procurement and [...]
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United Meridian (UMC) is using the last extension option it [...]
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The Algerian government has announced the appointment of Nazim Charif [...]
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The British firm Itera has decided to undertake a seismic [...]
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Marathon has tendered for one well with a jack-up in [...]
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Oil industry figures, bankers and export credit insurance experts will [...]
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Marathon has tested 3,850 b/d of 32.5° API oil with [...]
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The British trading company Tramp Oil has had the authorizes [...]
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