The political turmoil gripping Madagascar has caused a year-long delay in the recovery that was brewing in the oil branch with the backing of the World Bank just as it has held up advances in the mining sector, where the [.
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With talks underway between Mozambique and potential partners in South Africa to develop the Pande gas field and to build [...]
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Prime Minister André Milongo declared on Feb. 13 that Elf Congo and Agip-Research, the two biggest operators in the country, [...]
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French imports of crude oil grew by nearly 6.3% in 1991 to reach 72.95 Mt but Africa's share in the [...]
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Zimbabwe's development plan covering 1992-92 to 1995-96 provides for investments of $Z 374 million in oil transport, of which $Z [...]
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The provisional Eritrean government is seeking to gather data that will allow it to draw up an inventory of the [...]
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Total is reportedly "on the point" of signing an agreement to develop the Mabrouk oil field in Libya, according to [...]
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According to our sources, a proposal aimed at eventually setting up an "oil bank" was put to the recent ministerial [...]
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Although the coalbed methane division of ICF Resources has been taken over by another U.S. consultancy firm, Advanced Resources International [...]
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Egypt has issued calls to tender for a total of 13 blocks in the Gulf of Suez and the western [...]
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Du Pont Exploration & Production farmed out part of its [...]
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British Gas has reserved Forasol Foramer's semi-sub Nymphea to drill [...]
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Although a decision on drilling must be made by the [...]
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Algeria began delivering gas to the Slovene company SOZD Petrol [...]
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Elf Gabon's offshore production came to a complete halt following [...]
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ENI chairman Gabriele Cagliari announced last week that former U.N. [...]
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Venezuela will help Namibia develop its oil branch in return [...]
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Officials from the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) visited Harare in [...]
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The Italian export credit guarantee agency SACE has given a [...]
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The jack-up Glomar High Island VII is currently mobilising from [...]
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Agip has issued a tender inquiry for a semi-submersible with [...]
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Amoco has confirmed to Prime Minister Casimir Oye Mba that [...]
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The electricity and water branch has been allocated S Z 2 355 million -or 19.2% of the total- in Zimbabwe's [...]
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An agreement signed in Johannesburg on Feb. 17 between Eskom chairman Ian McRae and Francois Ailleret of Electricité de France [...]
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A cooperation accord between Electricity de France and the Egyptian Electricity Authority was signed in Cairo on Feb. 16 Initialed [...]
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Elsewhere, Pirelli will provide cables worth $3.7 m and Otis [...]
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The African Development Fund, a division of the African Development [...]
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A Spanish trade delegation in which the electricity branch was [...]
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Contracts awarded for repairs on the Kafue Gorge hydroelectrical power [...]
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The takeover of Sodileg and Microgisco by Dynateg is expected [...]
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Meeting in Dakar on Feb. 17-18 ministers from the Organisation [...]
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Banking on an overall growth rate of 5% annually in mining output, Zimbabwe's development plan for the fiscal years 1991-92 [...]
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The first contracts for Alusaf's project to build an aluminium factory will be signed "very quickly, in a matter of [...]
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Metall Mining Corporation (MCC, Toronto), a subsidiary of Germany's Metallgeselschaft group, has taken a leading 45% stake in Tunisia's first [...]
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