In the space of just a few months the question of diamonds from conflict zones has broken beyond the confines of debate between experts to take center stage on the international scene, to the discomfort of diamond traders unaccustomed to [.
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Although forecasts concerning demand for power were exaggerated – the figures of 14,600 GWh for 2000 and 23,700 GWh for [...]
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The Nigerian public enterprises office has called on the Washington-based consultants K&M to evaluate sites and prepare invitations to tender [...]
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With output at 370 GWh in 1999, the Societe Beninoise d'Electricite et d'Eau (SBEE) plans to increase its sales of [...]
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Although Hydroelectrica de Cabora Bassa (HCB) managed to make money [...]
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The power transmission company Motraco, a consortium formed by South [...]
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The Uganda Electricity Board has issued an invitation to tender [...]
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Zambia is considering exporting power to Kenya and Tanzania that [...]
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The Damocles sword hanging over Chevron since May 1999 is expected to finally fall in coming days when lawyers and [...]
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Angola added 1,335 million barrels to its reserves of oil and other liquids in 1999, according to the latest edition [...]
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Elf Exploration Angola believes it may discover a new cluster of fields near Tulipa on block 17 in the wake [...]
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The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) announced on June 13 that it had guaranteed a $173 million loan to [...]
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Malaysia's Petronas has come in for criticism in its turn following attacks against Talisman Energy of Canada and the China [...]
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Australia's Broken Hill Proprietary (BHP) is expected to commit itself to a second Algerian project by the end of July, [...]
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"We're talking with Sonatrach about a wider partnership, including exploration and enhanced recovery and indeed the Zarzaitine field as well," [...]
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ExxonMobil has reached a new phase in development of the Zafiro field on block B that the U.S. group operates [...]
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The two companies that compete on Cameroon's market for butane gas, the Societe Camerounaise de Transformation Metallique (SCTM) and Total [...]
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The Cameroon government has been forced to espouse revolutionary change in its oil policy in order to become eligible for [...]
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Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa ranked as the second source of output for TotalFinaElf in 1999 with a total of [...]
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A major exporter of LPG, Sonatrach is thinking of buying [...]
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Sonatrach has signed a $31 million accord with First Calgary [...]
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Operated by TotalFinaElf, the E block in Equatorial Guinea's offshore [...]
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How to resolve disputes over frontiers that affect the oil [...]
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The state-owned Endiama company plans to create an affiliate, Endiama Research and Production, to mine diamonds by the end of [...]
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Australia's Aquarius Platinum says it will start developing its second South African project, the Marikana deposit, by early next year [...]
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Messina Platinum Mines Ltd. has been authorized to develop the Messina platinum project and intends to invest $4.1 million in [...]
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Anxious to diversify Cameroon's economy, the mines, water and energy ministry intends to push for a development of the country's [...]
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Namibia is well known for the gem quality marine diamonds found along its shoreline but now Mount Burgess Mining of [...]
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The Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) plans to team up [...]
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Shareholders in the Mozal aluminum smelter have approved a $970 [...]
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Tanzania's mining industry, and particularly the gold sector, attracted $400 [...]
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Germany's Ferrostal AG is finalizing a Zimbabwe $2 billion project [...]
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The Anglo American affiliate Bindura Nickel Corp. warned that it [...]
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