De Beers has been compelled to cut back on investment following a 28% drop in sales of gem-quality rough idamonds by its Central Selling Organization in 1998 - to $3.3 billion - along with a 20% contraction in Japanese demand [.
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The Haut Commissariat au Barrage de Kandadji is seeking a consultant to carry out a feasibility study on the Kandadji [...]
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The Cape Verde Islands government has issued a first notice [...]
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The European Investment Bank has approved a $47 million (or [...]
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President Yoweri Museveni announced in his New Years message that [...]
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The French-British concern Alstom (formerly GEC Alsthom) has won a [...]
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Under an agreement signed in December in Rabat, the Kuwait [...]
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State-owned Senelec which is due to be privatized this year [...]
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Initial development of the Kuito field on Angola's block 14 is going to be put back relative to earlier indications [...]
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In late December Frontier Resources International was awarded a technical assessment license that it will be able to convert into [...]
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Corexland BV has issued a letter of intent to a consortium made up of the British company Victoria Oilfield Development [...]
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A closed-door meeting in Washington just before New Years gave rise to what could appear as an American effort to [...]
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The Nigerian government has approved a decision in August, 1997 that resulted in the choice of Elf Petroleum Nigeria as [...]
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Elf Petroleum has made an appearently substantial discovery in Nigeria's deep offshore. The French group remained silent about results of [...]
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The government announced just before the New Year that it had signed three PSA's concerning blocks 21, 22 and 24 [...]
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The fourth generation semi Ocean Alliance left the UK in [...]
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Chevron was to have released the semi Petrobras XVI at [...]
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The fleet of new tugboats that will serve Mobil Producing [...]
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In December Santa Fe Energy spudded the second of two [...]
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Petroci-Gaz is planning to start marketing LPG for vehicles in [...]
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A local company named Continentale des Petrole et d'Investissement won [...]
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South Africa's long-awaited White Paper on Energy that was finally [...]
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Global Marine is planning to cold stack between three and [...]
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The Canadian firm Tiomin Resources has found a way to bankroll a final feasibility study that it needs to carry [...]
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De Beers reacted calmly to a report by a London-based non-governmental organization which claimed that the group's commercial policy had [...]
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Canada's DiamondWorks wants to put its alluvial diamond mine at Yetwene in Lunda Norte back into production in late January, [...]
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Lusaka didn't achieve its objective of privatizing Zambia Consolidated Copper [...]
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The Canadian company AfriOre has been given an exclusive option [...]
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