Mining accounts for 40% of exports in the ACP countries so it is little wonder that Europe's backing for the mining industry was high on the agenda at the first ministerial conference on the future ACP-EU cooperation pact on Feb.
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CMS Energy has begun working on the first stage in the extension of the Takoradi-Aboadse power station. A 110 MW [...]
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The deepwater semi Sedco 709 is due to return to Shell Nigeria at the beginning of March to begin a [...]
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A loan worth around 50 million Euros will be offered by the European Investment Bank to Industries Chimiques du Senegal [...]
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Operator Apache International is now drilling the second production well on the Foxtrot field in the runup to the start [...]
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Shell wants to press ahead with new gas and oil developments involving $8.5 billion in investments despite the fact that [...]
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Australia's Hardman Resources has been awarded blocks 2 and 6 in Mauritania's offshore which lie north and south of blocks [...]
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Australia's Leo Shield has begun exploration on the Abori North [...]
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An aeromagnetic survey in late 1998 has enabled African Carnegie [...]
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Anglogold has just confirmed that it has started its second [...]
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The deadline for bids for acquisition of 85% of state-owned [...]
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The World Bank is expected to shortly approve a loan [...]
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The Kaduna refinery which has a nominal capacity of 110,000 [...]
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R&B Falcon has been awarded a three-year contract by Texaco [...]
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The American firm AES Electric, which had already teamed up with the local firm Madhvani its the Nile Independent Power [...]
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A Malaysian company, Indria, has bid to develop the Mchuchuma medium-bitumen coal near Lake Nyasa. The Tanzania Development Corp (TDC) [...]
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The Ethiopian government has cancelled an invitation to tender for the privatization of the Calub Gas Share Company. It considered [...]
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Australia's Tanganyika Gold has acquired a 100% interest in the [...]
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Burundi's government gave a green light in early February to a mining agreement reached with the Australian firm Andover. The [...]
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Elf has negotiated the early termination of its contract with [...]
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ETPM has won a contract from operator Elf Congo to [...]
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Marathon has fixed the jack-up Glomar Adriatic IX for a [...]
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There were rumors in South African financial circles last week that South Africa's Trans Hex company, controlled by the Rembrandt [...]
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An affiliate of the ABB group, ABB Lummus, has won the front end, engineering and design contract for the development [...]
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Nampower, Shell Exploration Namibia and the British utility National Power [...]
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ETPM, the offshore engineering and construction affiliate of France's Suez-Lyonaisse [...]
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Saipem, the engineering, construction and offshore services affiliate of Italy's ENI group, has teamed up with the American company Single [...]
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A new investment fund specializing in projects to develop Africa's [...]
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No sooner had the interests of La Source been divided [...]
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Mindev, a group with Belgian and Canadian capital that held [...]
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The state-owned Angolan oil company Sonangol is thinking of taking [...]
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The Glomar Adriatic V looks likely to be cold stacked [...]
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Global Marine is closing its office in Old Bond Street [...]
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An American company, Cresset International, has just been awarded a [...]
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