The Norwegians don't know what environmental foot to stand on. Norway's Saga Petroleum company had to abruptly leave behind several oil rigs in the Seme field in Benin's offshore in 1995. Now the rigs are covered in rust and several [.
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In sending a memorandum to Lagos governor Bola Tinube in early January that pointed out that the terms of a [...]
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Stopped in its tracks last year by a resumption of civil strife in Congo, a project by the Canadian firm [...]
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The Tanzania Electric Supply Company Ltd. (Tanesco) is threatening radical action to get paid for electricity bills run up by [...]
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Long delayed by the Uganda Parliament's misgivings, a project by the U.S. company AES Corporation to build a hydro-electric power [...]
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The European Commission has taken advantage of a precarious cease-fire between Ethiopia and Eritrea to get a power project in [...]
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The European Union has just approved a 4.85 million Euro [...]
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The Societe Beninoise d'Eau et d'Electricite (SBEE) has launched a [...]
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The executive directors on the World Bank's board have decided not to wait until the World Bank and IMF hold [...]
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For the first time in relations between oil companies and African governments, the market and management of carbon monoxide "wells" [...]
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The Feb. 14 publication by Canada's foreign affairs ministry of a report on Talisman's activity in Sudan had no effect [...]
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Oil minister Jean Baptiste Tati-Loutard hopes to see oil production climb this year as a result of production start-ups in [...]
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Ghana's deputy minister of mines and energy, Simon Abingya, announced [...]
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The National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOCZIM) which holds a [...]
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The U.S. Trade Development Agency was poised before the military [...]
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Triton Energy has signed a multi-year leasing contract with Bergesen [...]
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A 3rd annual conference on oil and gas in West [...]
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Is the campaign by English-language NGOs against illicit diamonds from Angola and Sierra Leone and the threat of an embargo [...]
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In an astonishing deal Lev Leviev, one of the partners in the Angola Selling Corp (AS-Corp), appears to have finalized [...]
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In the next few days the Canadian concern Melkior Resources will be in a position to start exporting ore and [...]
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The Feb. 14 resignation of Ghana finance minister Richard Kwame Peprah as chairman of Ashanti Goldfields' board of directors underscores [...]
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The agenda at Ashanti Goldfields' next board meeting scheduled for April 26 promises a lot of action. The board's first [...]
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Lonmin (formerly Lonrho Africa), the old mining company so dear to its late founder Tiny Rowland, appears to be melting [...]
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The Universal Alliance of Diamond Workers will meet in Gaborone, [...]
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During a debate in the House of Commons on Feb. [...]
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The South African giant AngloGold and Iamgold, a Canadian junior, [...]
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Impala Platinum Holdings, the world's second biggest platinum producer, intends [...]
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The Australian firm Shield Equities (formerly Leo Shield Exploration) is [...]
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The Angolan government introduced its new certificate of origin for [...]
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South Africa's second-biggest diamond producer after De Beers, Trans Hex [...]
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