After paying back arrears on its loans that had led the World Bank to freeze all credits in September, Zambia is now set to receive help from the World Bank, IMF and other lending institutions in breathing new life into [.
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The threat of new sanctions does not appear to have dampened Libya's enthusiasm for building up its refinery-distribution networks. While [...]
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A consortium of three Norwegian oil companies - state-owned Statoil, Norsk Hydro and Saga - has won the first permit [...]
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The Malabo government is preparing to put new permits up to tender in December. The round is being organized with [...]
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Mobil recently suspended oil exploration on the Zambian side of the Zambeze valley until further notice in order to concentrate [...]
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Nigeria has turned towards Argentina in a drive to build export-oriented refineries and/or take stakes in foreign refineries, an objective [...]
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Ubaido Dikko, chairman of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Co. (NPDC) has announced that the company's field at Oredo in the [...]
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New candidates have stepped forward as pre-qualification for a project to build a refinery and electrical power house in N'Djamena, [...]
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A closedown in Amoco's production in Gabon remains a possibility after the suspension of its exploration activity in the country. [...]
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Algeria's decision to adopt the system of tenders for awarding exploration permits, revealed last month by AEM (issue 81) has [...]
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The Petrocontrol consortium that includes Total and a number of [...]
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A new exploration permit has been awarded to Marathon for [...]
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Santa Fe Drilling is considering mobilising its recently-purchased jack-up Compact [...]
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Amoco Egypt Oil has begun commercial exploitation of a well [...]
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Western Oceanic has a letter of intent from Chevron for [...]
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After obtaining a permit from Somaliland for the only remaining [...]
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A well on the East Delta permit (operated by IEOC, [...]
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Texaco International signed an agreement on March 18 with the [...]
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Kartoum is making arrangements to eventually put its main fields [...]
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The industry and services branch of the Centre Francais du [...]
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Elf is tendering for a semi-sub for use from July [...]
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While around 800,000 tons of South African coal continued to enter France each year since the 1985 embargo - an [...]
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Gecamines has unveiled an equipment upgrading programme costing 531 billion [...]
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France is training Moroccan engineers who will work on the country's nuclear power programme that provides for the installation of [...]
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Negotiations are underway between Congo's Société Nationale d'électricité (SNE)and Electricité de France-International (EDF-I) on possible cooperation between the two. According [...]
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The Société Sénegalaise d'Electricité has asked Electricté de France-International (EDF-I) to undertake a programme to revamp the country's thermic stations. [...]
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The Uganda Electricity Board has put out a tender for the repair and extension of its 132 kV transmission network [...]
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The World Bank has agreed, as expected, to lend $220 million to Egypt to help finance a thermic power house [...]
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The tender for civil engineering work on Owen Falls Two, a power station that will be built alongside the existing [...]
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Among the priorities that feature in an economic recovery programme [...]
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Sector-wide programmes, including electricity, were scheduled to be discussed by [...]
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In-fighting is continuing between the Zimbabwe Electric Supply Authority (ZESA) [...]
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Clemessy has won the main contract for connecting up the [...]
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