In addition to 13 developments already underway, 17 will probably be carried out by the year 2000 in West Africa between Cameroon and Namibia. These 30 new fields can be expected to total 1.28 billion recoverable barrels but Congo and [.
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State-owned TPDC has signed a production sharing contract with Dublin International Petroleum Ltd. (DIPL) on two blocks that were offered [...]
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The acquisition by Sipetrol and Monument Oil & Gas of Block 3 in the Guinea Bissau offshore has been finalized. [...]
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Atlantic Richfield (Arco) has returned to exploration-production in Gabon by obtaining one of the permits in the deep offshore that [...]
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Already presented as "imminent" in July by a NNPC official, an agreement for the construction of a regional gas pipeline [...]
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In August Mobil successfully concluded a series of two initial appraisal wells on its Zafiro discovery dating from March and [...]
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The joint company McDermott-ETPM has landed one of the biggest contracts for which it had been bidding in recent months. [...]
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Elf Aquitaine announced officially in early August that its affiliate Elf Petroleum Nigeria had begun proceeding with the development of [...]
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Elf has issued a pre-qualification inquiry for procurement, construction and installation of the KLF-4 production platform in the Cameroon offshore [...]
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United Meridian (UMIC) has invited bids to provide a jack-up [...]
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The South Korean conglomerate Daewoo said it has received a [...]
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Mobil is negotiating an extension of the jack-up Glomar Adriatic [...]
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Chevron will use the semi-sub Omega to drill one well [...]
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Sources in South Africa say that a preliminary inquiry into [...]
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An economic and technical cooperation accord recently signed between Libya [...]
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After several postponements (AEM 163), drilling of International Petroleum's Suakin [...]
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Petrofina, which operates on the Soyo on-shore fields alongside Sonangol [...]
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Total has chartered the jack-up Glomar Adriatic X for two [...]
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Texaco has fixed the jack-up Glomar Adriatic IX for a [...]
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Abacan has issued a letter of intent to Sedco Forex [...]
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Shell has signed a letter of intent to take the [...]
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On Aug. 20 Neddrill recovered the BOP stack lost from [...]
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According to the Centre National d'Expertise (CNE), Zaire's diamond exports totalled 9.6 million carats in the first half of this [...]
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UNITA managed to retain its grip on part of the diamond deposits in the north eastern part of the country [...]
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Ashanti Goldfield's arrival in Niger was confirmed in late August when the Ghanaian firm, which is currently expanding internationally. was [...]
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A corporate brawl has broken out following the announcement by Australia's Normandy group that the La Source Compagnie Minière which [...]
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The U.S. company Mining Services International (MSI), which chiefly produces [...]
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The Société du Ferromanganèse de Paris-Outreau (SFPO) and South Africa's [...]
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United Reef will this month conduct the first sale of [...]
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An "International Diamond Exchange" has opened in Bangui for small-scale [...]
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The Caisse Française de Developpement (CFD) has simultaneously awarded loans to Ghana and to Burkina Faso for the construction of [...]
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A "national electrification programme" costing 180 billion CFA francs had barely been launched last Aug. 3 by energy minister Jean [...]
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The Ugandan government recently converted a $40 million debt owed [...]
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Management of the Aboadse combined cycle power station will be [...]
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The annual meeting of heads of the SADC countries last [...]
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