The decision by Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete to cancel Ashland's contracts indeed concerns the four licences on which it operated and wanted to sell to Perenco, sources have confirmed to AEM. The contracts involved not only its partnership with [.
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A project that AEM disclosed a few months ago (No. 203) that gives the South African company Amalia a solid [...]
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A project by Kobe Steel, Nissho Iwai and Odebrecht to build a direct reduced iron (DRI) plant in Angola with [...]
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Gecamines, the Belgian group George Forrest International and OM Group of the U.S. signed a joint venture agreement on June [...]
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Another Australian mining company has made its debut in the Democratic Republic of Congo after La Source (Normandy-BRGM) via Kimin, [...]
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The Toronto-based High River Gold Mines Co. is pushing ahead [...]
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Delta Gold, which put together the Hartley platinum project before [...]
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An agreement was reached at Antananarivo last weekend that ought [...]
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Mines minister N'Daide Lamine Kayo announced on June 26 that [...]
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The Zafiro field system that was put into production on Aug. 25 of last year will reach its full capacity [...]
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Youcef Yousfi's appointment as energy and mines minister in succession to Amar Makhloufi didn't make much of a stir when [...]
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Saudi Aramco has acquired a 27.5% stake in Petrogal under an agreement signed in Lisbon on June 26. Negotiations on [...]
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Regardless of whether NNPC falls behind with cash calls or not Nigeria's offshore equipment market remains huge. That was amply [...]
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Perenco is once again tackling its Gombe development in Gabon's offshore in earnest. It has made up for the setback [...]
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An agreement between the Sao Tome & Principe government and the U.S. firm Environmental Remediation Holding Corp (ERHC) appears to [...]
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The third round of bidding for offshore licences is to [...]
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The Assab refinery in Eritrea which served mainly the Ethiopian [...]
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Sweden's Taurus Petroleum AB has just obtained an offshore licence [...]
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The state-owned company SNH has signed an agreement with the [...]
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Transocean Offshore is indicating the potential availability of the semi-submersible [...]
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Japan Drilling's semi-submersible rig Hakuryu V, which will arrive in [...]
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Amoco has just sold its interests on two licences in [...]
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Pride Petroleum has taken delivery of the shallow water jack-up [...]
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Ocelot Energy has just won a third production sharing licence [...]
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A plan to hand over management of Electricidade e Agua de Guinee Bissau appears on track after several years of [...]
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The first investment to be made following Societe d'Electricite et d'Eau du Gabon's 20-year concession to Compagnie Generale des Eaux [...]
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A first international exhibition dealing with electricity production, transmission and [...]
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Disclosed by AEM in late 1996 (AEM 195), a proposal [...]
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Britain's Commonwealth Development Corp (CDC) plans to create an investment [...]
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Just a month later than expected, the IDA approved a [...]
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The Standard Bank of Namibia is seeking to set up [...]
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