Gécamines intends to boost its copper output from 33,700 tons last year to an annual rate of between 150,000-170,000 tons by the end of 1998, officials from the Zaire mining company told AEM. The recovery will be based essentially on [.
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Occidental Petroleum has cancelled the third and last well in a series it launched three months ago in Gabon's deep [...]
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Elusive rumors that Saudi Arabian interests might be involved in a solution to the Arakis project were confirmed at last [...]
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Has the island of Zanzibar picked up the threads of its long-distant past as a trading post and gateway to [...]
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Mines and hydrocarbons minister Benoit Koukébéné warned during a seminar organized for members of parliament in Brazzaville on July 12 [...]
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In early 1994 sources in Ivory Coast were already touting what they described as a "handful" of small gas prospects [...]
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The Italian oil company Agip has given what seems a clear sign of confidence in Zaire's march towards stability by [...]
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Neddrill has fully mapped the location of the riser and BOP stack lost from the DP drillship Neddrill 1 after [...]
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Only if cif prices rise will Sonatrach be able to develop its gas fields sufficiently to overshoot its initial export [...]
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Four new exploration permits are on offer in Guinea Bissau on the country's continental and the deep offshore. These are [...]
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State secretary for oil Kabir Chafe let it be understand 10 days ago that the ebbs and flows of arrears [...]
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Shell may now proceed with plans to contract up to [...]
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The Agadir offshore permit on which Santa Fe had become [...]
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Elf has extended its contracts with two Forasol Foramer tender [...]
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Chevron is thinking of investing $500 million on developing Tshiala, [...]
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The Argentinean company Pluspetrol will spud its first well in [...]
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Conoco Energy is seeking expressions of interest from contractors by [...]
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The world's biggest concrete barge, a 70,000-ton, 220-meter-long vessel, has [...]
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Shell Côte d'Ivoire has begun terminating an entire series of [...]
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The usual rumors of "commissions and omissions" surrounded the dismissal [...]
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Hunt is currently finishing a well, Genale 1, on the [...]
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Agip affiliate IEOC and Amoco have discovered gas in the [...]
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The Canadian company Abacan is expected to raise $Can. 30 [...]
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Noble Drilling's barge Lewis Dugger has just begun a two-well [...]
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The Mauritanian government has just obtained a Sysmin loan it requested in the aftermath of last year's inauguration of new [...]
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With the World Bank holding out for Gécamines to be privatized along guidelines laid down for over two years the [...]
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Delta Gold announced in Sydney on July 6 that it [...]
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Ghana's electricity consumption is going to climb at an average rate of 7% annually until the year 2000, which is [...]
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With Gécamines beginning to invest on a significant scale again (see Mines section) the regional director of SNEL in Shaba, [...]
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The capacity of the Tedzani and Nkula dams on the [...]
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A study on a high voltage interconnection between Ghana and [...]
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AEM has learned that a European (EDF) loan is being [...]
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