"Introducing competition isn't deregulation-- it's regulation," declared Philippe Delaboudiniere, commercial director of GEC-Alsthom's electricity generation division, in presenting a biting paradox to 250 persons attending the Africa Power conference in Johannesburg last week. Delaboudiniere went one further by saying that [.
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The uncertainty over where a DRI smelter using gas from Pande would be located, which was stirred when Enron obtained [...]
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Few Zaire watchers doubted it but AEM has confirmed the matter: retired Belgian colonel Willy Mallants' dedication to the Alliance [...]
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It's by no means certain the current boss of MIBA, Jonas Mulamba Kadiata, will manage to save his job despite [...]
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In the swirl of activity by junior companies in West Africa one can clearly see the mark of two Canadian [...]
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Australia's Ghana Gold Mines company has decided to suspend work [...]
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Sasol has reacted strongly to Exxon's arrival on the market for synthetic oil products derived from gas with reputedly advanced [...]
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To develop or not to develop? The answer would have to be yes because what else could be done with [...]
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AEM understands that Mobil is considering cutting back its drilling operations in Nigeria's offshore in response to the persistent failure [...]
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Italy's ENI group has found a solution that could enable ENEL to import LNG in amounts far beyond existing capacity [...]
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Ivory Coast has signed a contract with a consortium headed up by Canada's Ranger Oil for Block CI-102. Ranger will [...]
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Reports in the South Africa press indicate that Soekor is moving to take over and operate Mossgas' platform and undersea [...]
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The Ghana National Oil Corp (GNPC) and the country's finance minister, Kwame Peprah, signed production sharing accords on March 24 [...]
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Major projects can lead to major decisions. It was obviously [...]
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Marathon's call to tender for a jack-up will close on [...]
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Expected for some months (AEM 194), Aramco's acquisition of a [...]
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While O.I.L. wanted to gain a foothold in West Africa, [...]
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Ghana has modelled the Oil&Gas Africa 97 conference, the first [...]
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Abacan has extended its contract with the jack-up Trident VIII [...]
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Former oil minister Don Etiebet was arrested and jailed on [...]
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The jack-up Glomar Adriatic IV has mobilized to Gabon from [...]
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South African mining and energy affairs minister Penuell Maduna and the chairman of Alusaf (Gencor group), Rob Barbour, signed two [...]
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On March 24 France's Generale des Eaux and the international [...]
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Corinne Block will take up her post as EDF's permanent [...]
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During a meeting with energy minister Mananga Dintoka Pholo on [...]
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