The Sicilian author Lampedusa once wrote of a prince saying during a crisis in 19th century Italy that "everything has got to change so that nothing changes." While Laurent Kabila cannot be identified with Garibaldi there are a lot of [.
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The American oil services group Halliburton has won two new contracts from a consortium headed by Chevron in Cabinda's offshore. [...]
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Sasol has chosen Mozambique for the next move in its drive to expand E&P in Africa. After acquiring a 20% [...]
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The Djambala field, a small offshore oil discovery recorded by Agip at the end of last year and on which [...]
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United Meridian plans to develop the first gas prospect it has finished appraising among those on CI-01 named Kudu. Its [...]
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The consortium formed to carry out Arakis' project and made up of the firm's affiliate SPC, the local Sudapet company, [...]
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On May 28 the Algerian government announced that BHP had made a discovery on Sif Fatima, one of two licences [...]
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Despite the growing scarcity of available rigs, Elf has just found a jack-up for the Tchibouela Est project, its second [...]
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Gabon has found a buyer for its first licence in the ultra deep offshore. Vanco signed for the new licence [...]
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J. Ray McDermott posted an operating profit of $29.5 million [...]
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China's Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau has won a tender to [...]
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The French oil group Elf Aquitaine expects to see a [...]
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The Algerian government has included the Entreprise Nationale de Canalisations [...]
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Following laboratory tests by Puma in Israel, industrial tests on [...]
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The drilling barge Searex VIII is now expected to finish [...]
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Sedco Forex's semi submersible Omega will go to Gabon to [...]
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A company registered in the Cayman Islands, M.I. Overseas Ltd., [...]
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Michael Weston, managing director of Shell's gas division, confirmed in [...]
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In addition to posting a $135.8 million profit in 1996, [...]
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The Nouakchott port authority has signed a cooperation agreement with [...]
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The Portuguese government would like to see South Africa buy into Hidroelectrica de Cabora Bassa. During a recent visit to [...]
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The Zimbabwe Electric Supply Authority (ZESA) is scheduled to sign a "project development agreement" with Britain's National Power Co for [...]
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The Spanish public works company Cubiertas has won a $6.7 [...]
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Although the project hasn't advanced as quickly as ZESCO indicated [...]
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With a contract soon to be signed for a third [...]
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"If the new authorities decide to privatize MIBA, Sibeka would be particularly interested in the operation, " declared a company [...]
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As with diamonds, the new Democratic Republic of Congo era could open up fresh prospects for Union Miniere not only [...]
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A solution appeared to be in sight last week in the dispute pitting the new Congolese authorities and the Sizarail [...]
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AEM understands that American Mineral Fields will employ a total of 38 expatriates on its projects in Katanga. They include [...]
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Development of the Hartley platinum project is continuing to run behind schedule and BHP and its partner on the scheme, [...]
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A and diamond-recovery system with a capacity of 30 tons [...]
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A business mission from North-West province headed by the official [...]
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Soon to be operational, the Eastern and Southern African Mineral [...]
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