Nigeria continues to be the theatre of major oil discoveries in the deep offshore and its potential in that sphere is exceeded in West Africa - for the moment- only by Angola. Developments follow on the heels of the many [.
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The debts of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority towards Eskom are constantly on the rise and Eskom has voiced alarm of [...]
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The Volta River Authority (VRA) believes that using natural gas rather than heavy fuel for the production of power could [...]
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Nigeria's federal government and the state of Enugu have agreed to work together to re-activate the Oji River thermal power [...]
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The Madagascar utility Jiro Sy Rano Malagasy (JIRAMA) has issued [...]
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Rwanda's energy, water and natural resources ministry has set out [...]
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Just inaugurated after six years of work, the Kihansi hydro [...]
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Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an [...]
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Mano River Resources Inc. believes it won't need to bring in a big partner to help develop its resources which [...]
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One of Australia's big five mining companies, WMC (formerly Western Mining Corporation) has moved into the titanium metals industry by [...]
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More bad news has come for Zimbabwe's mining industry as a result of the political and economic uncertainty gripping the [...]
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Australia's Aquarius Platinum is planning to open a third platinum group metals mine in South Africa as early as 2002. [...]
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The Anglo American group is continuing to dispose of non-core assets with the sale of its 20% stake in the [...]
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"We hope to decide on developing the Libiri gold deposit next month," David Netherway, chief operating officer of Montreal-based Semafo [...]
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The Nigerian government appears intent on persuading foreign investors that Nigeria doesn't have only oil to offer in sizeable amounts [...]
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The fate of two large mineral deposits in Mauritania is now in doubt after the owner, Australia's General Gold Resources, [...]
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Amid the cries raised about conflict diamonds by non-governmental organizations, [...]
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Canada's Trillion Resources has sold its 50% stake in the [...]
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Gold production at the Prestea Gold Mines in Ghana has [...]
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The governor of Plateau state, Joshua Dariye, has been warned [...]
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In acquiring OroAfrica in South Africa, Anglogold has made its [...]
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Anglo American has decided to stop exploring for gold in [...]
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Reunion Mining Plc said it was giving up its stake [...]
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While the decision of Burlington Resources, Canada's Talisman Energy Inc. and Sonatrach to develop the MLN field on block 405 [...]
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Operator on the Jenein North permit, Agip, the E & P branch of Italy's ENI oil group, is currently drilling [...]
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Magnus Nordin, deputy managing director of Lundin Oil AB, confirmed to Africa Energy and Mining that the company would resume [...]
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Libya's Agoco company has just signed an agreement with the Institut Francais du Petrole that provides for IFP to supply [...]
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Dana Petroleum, an Aberdeen-based company that has greatly boosted its assets in Africa since last year, is poised to conduct [...]
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The leading distributor of oil products on the African continent, TotalFinaElf is throwing its weight behind efforts to promote implementation [...]
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Combined production from the Oribi oil field that went into production in May, 1997 and from Oryx which has been [...]
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Britain's Tullow Oil Plc hasn't yet decided on whether to renew the Sebikhotane license that will run out in January [...]
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The "risk service contract" that BHP and its partners signed [...]
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The Franco-Belgian group TotalFinaElf has denied ever paying commissions or [...]
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Houston-based Vanco Energy Company has asked Aker Geo in Oslo [...]
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A Ugandan parliamentary panel has called on the government to [...]
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The government has proceeded with a bond issue to raise [...]
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