In responding energetically against strikes on Jan. 19 in six companies marked down for privatization, Congo's government clearly signalled it had passed the point of no return: Africa's biggest ever privatization program will go ahead according to schedule.
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Mobil is carrying through its project to bring an additional semi-submersible to West Africa for work in Equatorial Guinea. The [...]
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According to Equatorial Guinea's ambassador to the European Union, Aurelio Mba Olo Andene, the government is anxious to find new [...]
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The chief executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Tsatsu Tsikata, announced last week that shares in Western Power would [...]
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On Jan. 17 state-owned Sodemi signed an agreement with the South African group Gencor represented by its local affiliate, GATRO-CI, [...]
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The partnership set up by Ashanti Goldfields Corp. (AGC) with AGEM Ltd., affiliate of the Canadian company International African Mining [...]
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Senegal has just awarded 17 gold exploration permits in the south-east of the country where the Sabodala field, a major [...]
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Channel Resources, which operates for Canada's Viceroy company on eight gold exploration permits totalling 8,140 sq.km. in Burkina Faso, has [...]
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Under the terms of new contracts, Amoco in Gabon and [...]
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Equatorial Guinea's mines ministry is seeking investors for gold and [...]
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The Australian group Broken Hill Pty (BHP) has just shifted its assets in the Kabanga nickel and cobalt project and [...]
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A full year after negotiations surfaced in early, 1995 (AEM 155) the French company Mine Or, one of two joint [...]
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International Petroleum Corp. (IPC) announced that International Petroleum Sudan would [...]
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"Europe's traditional suppliers of gas by pipeline will be able to cover its future needs until the year 2005 or [...]
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The Algerian government and Total announced on Jan. 28 that they had signed an agreement expected for some months on [...]
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Morocco's electricity sector will be the big winner from an increase in French economic aid that was offered to Morocco [...]
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Apache and its partner Global Natural Resources have been awarded [...]
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Two invitations to tender have been issued by Morocco's Office [...]
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Agip is expected to shortly finalize a new contract for [...]
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The government has extended the unilateral sanctions and the freeze [...]
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The French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has just signed a [...]
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The target date for launching production at the Haib copper deposit in southern Namibia, the country's biggest mining project since [...]
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Neil Van Heerden, South Africa's envoy to the European Union, was appointed executive director of the South Africa Foundation with [...]
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Only seven French groups, but big ones at that, are [...]
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Mauritius' finance ministry has applied to the African Development Bank [...]
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Shell is negotiating a one-well assignment of the semi Omega [...]
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Lowered in a single piece onto its jacket with Technip's [...]
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The European Commission's verdict on the merger between the platinum [...]
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The EU's council of ministers decided on Jan. 22 to [...]
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After failing to find a jack-up to spud a well [...]
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The semi Scarabeo 4 will continue drilling development wells for [...]
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The budget of Gabon's mines and energy ministry this year [...]
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Jack Cizain has been appointed managing director of EDF-International as [...]
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The forthcoming annual conference of the German association Afrika Verein [...]
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