Congo

CHEVRON DROPS EXPLORATION

The Congolese news agency ACI reported that Chevron had withdrawn [...]

Amoco has completed two short wells with the jack-up Western [...]

TCHIKAYA NAMED OIL MINISTER

Jean Pierre Thysthere Tchikaya has been named minister for mines, [...]

Elf has chartered the tender rig Robray T-5 from Smedvig [...]

DRILLING ON N'KOSSA: END OF 1993

Elf has made arrangements to enable Elf Congo to start drilling development wells on N'Kossa. But the spudding of production [...]

Elf may need a semi-sub for an exploration programme in [...]

Elf is releasing the Sedco-Forex semi Sedco l this week [...]

Amoco is planning to drill two wells with a 250-foot [...]

WELCOME NEWS FOR FRESH TEAM

The government set up on Sept. 8 by prime minister Stephane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra following the victory of Pascal Lissouba in [...]

Elf is expected to issue a call to tender towards [...]

PRE-DRILLING FOR NKOSSA

Without waiting for the official green light from the Brazzaville authorities on a development plan for the Nkossa field (AEM [...]

$200 M ELF LOAN AGAINST FUTURE OIL

Elf claims to have nothing particularly for or against the idea of Congo borrowing money against its share of future [...]

SNEL "AUDITED"; EDF NEGOTIATES

Like Guinea (AEM 74), Congo may be in line to follow the Ivory Coast in turning the distribution of electricity [...]

The Higher Council of the Republic (CSR) has come out [...]

The Nkossa offshore field will be put into production in [...]

Stacked off Congo since it was released by Agip Congo [...]

VARIED PICTURE FOR 1991

Differences in mining production patterns that were evident in the first half of 1991 between countries of the franc zone [...]

The jack-up C E Thornton, on charter with Pecten Cameroon, [...]

EDF-I/SNE ACCORD EXAMINED

Negotiations are underway between Congo's Société Nationale d'électricité (SNE)and Electricité de France-International (EDF-I) on possible cooperation between the two. According [...]