Elf Aquitaine's purchase of BP's distribution network in 12 West African countries and its interest in three refineries clearly qualifies as one of the biggest deals ever struck in the downstream oil sector in Africa.
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Already put back to 1996-97 for external reasons (AEM 82) the QIT Fer et Titane project to exploit mineralised sands [...]
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Mining investment programs in Africa currently total $US6.79 billion, or 15.9% of the world total. The gold branch stands in [...]
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The Comptoir national d'expertise (CNE) reported that diamond production in January had plunged by 54.5%, to reach 835 000 carats [...]
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Negotiations have entered the final stretch for the integrated Fox trot project, and AEM has learned that a platform could [...]
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Madagascar officials have held "fruitful consultations" with Iran and the country will receive its first shipment of Iranian crude as [...]
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The number of oil and gas wells to be spudded in Africa this year will rise by 8.6% compared to [...]
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After deciding to suspend exploration in Gabon (AEM 82) Amoco will wind up all production operations as well. The Gombe [...]
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Senegal has announced a second call to tender for on shore exploration but without putting up all unexplored onshore sedimentary [...]
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Madagascar's minister of energy and mines indicated that his transitional government was firmly committed to liberalisation in the oil industry. [...]
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Gustavson Associates, an American firm based in Boulder, Colorado, has been commissioned to carry out a new survey on the [...]
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The Gulf Nigeria (Chevron)-NNPC joint venture plans later this year to launch its "Escravos" aimed at recovering and processing associated [...]
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Operator Elf Aquitaine Angola (EAA) and Sonangol last week announced two new discoveries in block 3 with the first two [...]
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Shell Gabon has started up production on Echira which, situated on the Ogooué-Sette Cama block, forms one of the fields [...]
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The Canadian company ATCO Enterprises has won a $10.3 million [...]
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A British trade delegation specializing in the oil and gas [...]
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The final agreement on the construction of a gas pipeline [...]
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Occidental Petroleum "wants to step up its activity in Algeria" [...]
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ETAP is looking for a floater for a well it [...]
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Elf is tendering for a jack-up for six months, to [...]
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Sonatrach has commissioned a group of state-owned Algerian companies, including [...]
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ENH has compiled and now offers two new data packages [...]
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Chevron International has won a contract over six rival bids [...]
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The Franco-Arab Chamber of Commerce and the Arab Oil Research [...]
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In addition to discoveries by AGIP and BHP (AEM 73) [...]
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An IFC report on its activities in Morocco following its [...]
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Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH) signed an agreement-in-principal on Feb. [...]
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Cooperation in solar energy is gathering pace between the European Thermie programme and North African countries, with a first pilot [...]
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Italy has put up a 227.6 million ECU loan towards construction of the Mjaara hydroelectric dam in Morocco. The loan [...]
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The African Development Bank has issued its indicative lending programme for the years 1992-93. In the energy and mining branches, [...]
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Pre-qualification has been launched (closing on May 4) for the [...]
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Runaway inflation in Zimbabwe and the resulting devaluation of the [...]
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