No sooner had United Nations sanctions against Libya been suspended on Jan. 5 than Libyan oil minister Abdullah Salem al Badri declared that "we invite U.S. firms which were our associates in the past to return to Libya and continue [.
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The contract for Tunisia's first power station to be built as a private venture, Rades II, was signed at the [...]
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Aswan Development & Mining (ADEMCO) has chosen HSBC as adviser [...]
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A 47.1% stake in state-owned Societe Industrielle d'Appareillage et de [...]
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A project to overhaul Uganda's public sector has been dropped by the World Bank along with a $40 million loan [...]
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Spinifex Gold of Australia is moving to absorb its Canadian-listed [...]
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Anadarko is going to release the Sante Fe rig Key [...]
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A four-sided accord in London has injected fresh impetus into the project for a gas pipeline between Ivory Coast and [...]
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Elf is expected in late April to issue invitations to tender for two jack-ups that it needs to drill development [...]
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Ilmenite deposits on Gambia's coast may shortly be developed again, this time by an Australian operator. Long known to exist, [...]
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Two new gold exploration concessions have been awarded in south-east [...]
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The privatization of state-owned Sodemi has been set back because [...]
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Loans from the International Development Association (World Bank) for programs [...]
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Mobil Nigeria is releasing the jack-up Trident VI next week [...]
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Shell Nigeria is shortly expected to resume operations with the [...]
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Statoil is thinking of drilling appraisal wells with the first [...]
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The swamp barges Searex IV and Searex VI have been [...]
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The publication Africa Confidential (whose French-language edition is issued by [...]
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CMS Oil & Gas (formerly Nomeco) and Samedan of the [...]
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The privatization of the Tema Oil Refinery through the sale [...]
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The joint ACP-EU Parliamentary Assembly has called on the European Commission to conduct an urgent inquiry "into the diamond trade [...]
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A new Australian junior, Mount Burgess Gold, has made its first foray into Africa with a diamond joint venture in [...]
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The March 31 deadline the government set for Anglo American in January to find partners to buy the Nchanga, Nkana [...]
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The U.S. has provided a $500,000 grant for a feasibility [...]
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Rossing Uranium plans to proceed with 1,000 layoffs by the [...]
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Negotiations between Agip and R&B Falcon to have the jack-up [...]
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Chevron/CABGOC has extended its contract with the jack-up Trident XIV [...]
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South African steel giant Iscor has chosen a small Australian company, Africwest Gold, as its gold exploration arm in East [...]
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Gecamines said on April 9 that it had adopted a "revitalization strategy" involving major changes to boost its output and [...]
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The sale of Royal Dutch-Shell's exploration and production assets in Namibia, Congo Brazzaville and Ivory Coast came as a bolt [...]
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Jean-Raymond Boulle, founder and leading shareholder in America Mineral Fields, [...]
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Following the departure of the M G Hulme Jr to [...]
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The Congolese army claims to have recaptured the region in [...]
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Elf Congo is going to retain the services of the [...]
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