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Burkina Faso

Essakan Resource Confirmed

Drilling at the Essakan project in Burkina Faso has confirmed earlier estimates that the area contains at least 1 million [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.02.2001

Placer Dome Teams up With Solomon

An affiliate of Placer Dome has confirmed it will buy into the Canadian firm Solomon Resources’ three gold mines in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.01.2001

Growth Area for Chevron

With the spectacular rebound of the oil price since the dip in early 1999 the petroleum industry is gradually regaining [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.01.2001

Money From BOAD

The Banque Ouest-Africaine de Developpement (BOAD) has pledged to bankroll [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.01.2001

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Oil and Politics in the Niger Delta

The government has come forward with a new policy on developing marginal fields that appears aimed at involving the inhabitants of the Niger river delta in the management of their oil resources. According to Rilwanu Lukman, adviser to president Olusegun [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.12.2000

Metorex to start development of the Perkoa mine in 2001

Metorex, a South African company that is over 50% owned by Canada’s Crew Developpment Corp, has submitted a project of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.12.2000

Seeking Wider Regional Integration

The French-speaking countries of the Union Economique et Monetaire Ouest-Africaine [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.11.2000

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT

A special mining conference bringing together African mines and energy [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.11.2000

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Independents Head for Africa's Offshore

In taking over Union Pacific Resources Group Inc (UPR) in July, Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp. both grew in size and significantly increased its assets outside the U.S.: in addition to North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia), they now include holdings in [.

Subscribers only Energy 08.11.2000

Western Areas on the cession of South Deep and the reappointment of Brett Kebble

Following the reappointment of Brett Kebble as the chief executive [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.11.2000

Gold Find for Orezone

A new high grade gold zone has been discovered at the Intiedougou concession in Burkina Faso. The Canadian firm Orezone [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.10.2000

Headway on Nyafe

The Canadian firm Semafo says it is encouraged by the results of exploration on its neighboring Mana and Fobiri gold [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2000

AHMED ZAOUI

The father of Ahmed Zaoui, a fundamentalist who was expelled [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.06.2000

Border Disputes

How to resolve disputes over frontiers that affect the oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.2000

WAPG an "Ecology" Kingpin

Contrary to reports in industry circles, nobody has managed to prove the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) that is to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.05.2000

Roc Oil on The March

Australia's Roc Oil which already owns large off-shore properties in Morocco and Senegal has now expanded into promising waters off [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2000

Vanco on Shopping Spree

In the finest tradition of American independents, Houston-based Vanco Energy Co. is continuing to scoop up property in West Africa's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2000

Washington Behind WAPG

Despite the problems encountered by Enron in Nigeria and indirect criticism from the World Bank (AEM 270/272), the United States [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.04.2000

TotalFinaElf's Exploration Plans

The bulk of exploration that TotalFinaElf intends to undertake in 2000 will be in West Africa. While the group plans [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.04.2000

Rocky Ride for Enron

Enron's aggressive strategy in West Africa has come in for a serious mauling in recent months. In early January, the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.03.2000

But Friends for in Maputo

As in West Africa, Enron has been pulling in its horns in Mozambique on the Maputo Iron and Steel project [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.03.2000

SONABEL boss Salif Kabore's Friend in High Places

Named managing director of the Societe Nationale Burkinabe d'Electricite (SONABEL) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.03.2000

3rd Conference on Deepwater Oil and Gas

A 3rd annual conference on oil and gas in West [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.02.2000

METOREX ACQUIRES PERKOA

Johannesburg-based Metorex which is controlled by Canada's Crew Development group has become the latest to benefit from the decision by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.12.1999

SEVEN-SIDED EFFORT TO RESOLVE DEMARCATION DISPUTES PEACEFULLY

A Gulf of Guinea Committee was set up in Libreville [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

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Essakan Resource Confirmed

Placer Dome Teams up With Solomon

Growth Area for Chevron

Money From BOAD

Spotlight Oil and Politics in the Niger Delta

Metorex to start development of the Perkoa mine in 2001

Seeking Wider Regional Integration

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT

Spotlight Independents Head for Africa's Offshore

Western Areas on the cession of South Deep and the reappointment of Brett Kebble

Gold Find for Orezone

Headway on Nyafe

AHMED ZAOUI

Border Disputes

WAPG an "Ecology" Kingpin

Roc Oil on The March

Vanco on Shopping Spree

Washington Behind WAPG

TotalFinaElf's Exploration Plans

Rocky Ride for Enron

But Friends for in Maputo

SONABEL boss Salif Kabore's Friend in High Places

3rd Conference on Deepwater Oil and Gas

METOREX ACQUIRES PERKOA

SEVEN-SIDED EFFORT TO RESOLVE DEMARCATION DISPUTES PEACEFULLY

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Africa Intelligence on social media

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Gabon
The secrets behind the FGIS, a sovereign wealth fund set adrift

Africa
Massad Boulos, a free agent of Donald Trump's African diplomacy under close watch

Spotlight
Oil and Politics in the Niger Delta

Spotlight
Independents Head for Africa's Offshore