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Burkina Faso
Wadi Seeks Arbitrage on Tambao’s Manganese

The current bidding round to award mining rights for the Tambao manganese project (see AMI’s last issue) is being carefully [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.07.2010

Ivory Coast
Perseus to Meet with Ivorian Minister in Fall

Perseus Mining has been advancing quickly on its Sissedougou gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.07.2010

Spotlight | Nigeria
Technip Cleared in U.S. but in Court in Paris

Fifteen years after bribing Nigerian officials in order to land a contract to build the Nigeria LNG (NLNG) gas liquefaction plant in Nigeria, the French oil services group Technip succeeded in negotiating a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.2010

Guinea
Chariot Oil In Strong Offshore Bid

Executives from the British company Chariot Oil are currently in Conakry to try to buy their way into Guinea’s offshore.

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.2010

Ivory Coast
Rialto Shifts into Higher Gear

Australia’s Rialto hired a former executive of Addax just after it won a green light from Abidjan to debut on block CI-202.

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.2010

Equatorial Guinea
Gazprom On The Move

Announced several months ago, Gazprom Neft has finally won holdings on two blocks in Equatorial Guinea while continuing to negotiate elsewhere in the Gulf of Guinea and in Libya.

Free access Energy 13.07.2010

Equatorial Guinea
Vanco in Fresh Move on Corisco

Present on the huge Corisco Deep block since 2000, the American oil group Vanco has penned a new contract with other partners.

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.2010

Ghana
Some Jubilee Gas to be Flared

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that, contrary to claims by the Ghanaian government, some of the Jubilee field’s associated gas will [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.2010

Guinea-Bissau
When the Electricity Vanishes...

The World Bank would like to get a private company to run state-owned EAGB which now produces a mere 5.5 MW.

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.2010

Guinea
Mahmoud Thiam

Guinea’s mines minister who also handles the oil brief, Mahmoud Thiam, could retain his post in a government set up [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.2010

Ghana
GNPC

Ghana’s ambassador to Washington, Daniel Ohene Agyekum, was due to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.2010

Nigeria
NNPC

The oil majors operating in the Niger Delta are more [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.2010

Mali, Nigeria
Bamako’s New Push for TSGP

Mali’s government is pushing ahead with its drive to bring [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.2010

Nigeria
Standoff in the Delta

The amnesty process for militants from the Niger Delta is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.2010

Nigeria
Cost Overrun for Maurel?

France's BNP Paribas bank is mounting a bond issue convertible [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.2010

Nigeria
Abdullah Gul

Abdullah Gul, the president of Turkey dropped in on his [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.07.2010

Burkina Faso
Vale & Mitsui Target Tambao's Manganese

Will highly-prized manganese at Tambao -the best in Africa with content of between 52 and 53%, and 20 million tons [...]

Free access Mining 06.07.2010

Guinea
Conakry Intent on Taking Stake in Simandou

The authorities are turning up the heat on Rio Tinto/Simfer. On June 25 the company received a warning from prime [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.07.2010

Burkina Faso
A Strategic Re-Working of the Mining Code

Burkina Faso’s mines ministry is re-working mining legislation drafted in 2003, a period when there were no industrial-scale mines in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.07.2010

Guinea
Vladimir Chumashkaev

The president of the Russian equity company Rik Oil (which is incorporated in Kazakhstan but headquartered in Moscow), has been [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.07.2010

Burkina Faso
Investor Sought for Baliata's Manganese

The Bureau des Mines et de la Geologie du Burkina [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.07.2010

Ivory Coast
Sama Resources in Biankouma Nickel Project

Before he was fired in May, Jean Likane Yagui, managing [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.07.2010

Ivory Coast
Randgold Awarded Operating License

Mark Bristow, chief executive of South African gold company Randgold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.07.2010

Guinea
Bellzone Agreement Goes Into Effect

In late June, the management of Bellzone Mining presented Guinea’s [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.07.2010

Angola, Ghana
Jose Eduardo dos Santos

Jose Eduardo dos Santos, the president of Angola, dropped in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.06.2010

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