Mozambique has just failed to reach a common position with Portugal on the price of electricity after the Cabora Bassa dam is put back into service. The government is deeply worried because it feels that unduly high rates could compromise [.
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Nigeria has just claimed it won't get involved in a military conflict with Cameroon over the Bakassi peninsula. At the [...]
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The Lyonnaise des Eaux affiliate GTM-Entrepose is thinking of cutting the link with its offshore oil construction subsidiary ETPM, according [...]
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Elf is bidding to operate of block CI-26 (the Espoir field) as well as on the neighboring CI-40 which runs [...]
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The government recently gave Mossgas a green light to invest a total of 910 million rand to develop additional gas [...]
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After the failure of its invitation to tender in 1994 Soeker set up a "Petroleum Licensing Unit" to promote the [...]
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Nigeria has managed to fend off the threat of oil or other sanctions with for a selective release of jailed [...]
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Eritrea and Yemen agreed in Paris on Oct. 3 to accept that a special arbitration court be set up to [...]
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Direct foreign investment in the gas industry in North Africa [...]
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Agip Congo has requested an extension of bid validity to [...]
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Negotiations between Algeria and Canada's Trade Development Corporation (TDC) appear [...]
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The government has completed the privatization of British Petroleum Zambia [...]
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The ABB group has signed an accord with Chevron for [...]
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Texaco is expected to issue tender invitations shortly for two [...]
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Both British Borneo, a British independent, and Seafield are keen [...]
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Although no immediate confirmation is available, it appears that Marathon [...]
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Ranger Oil is looking for a semi from July, 1997 [...]
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The Zimbabwe government fired all 10 members of the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority's board on Oct. 2 including its chairman, [...]
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The Uganda Electricity Board has signed an agreement with an [...]
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Following the dismissal of general manager Simon Mhaville who was [...]
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The Societe Tunisienne de l'Electricite et du Gaz announced on [...]
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The consortia or companies ABB-IPS, CMS-SPIE Batignolles, AES, Elyo (Lyonnaise [...]
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An agreement providing for Banro International Capital and Algy Cluff to buy into Sominki, which has gold reserves of at [...]
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The Australian company Centamin NL, which is already operates in Egypt on the Rosetta mineral sands project near Alexandria, has [...]
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New players are making an appearance in diamond-rich Lunda Norte province but it remains difficult to get industrial-scale projects up [...]
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The Canadian companies Orezone Resources Inc. of Ottawa and Geomaque [...]
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Princess Resources is expected to shortly complete the takeover of [...]
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The second round of bidding for mining concessions in Eritrea [...]
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Tiomin Resources Inc. of Toronto has announced a major titanium [...]
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The Canadian firm SouthernEra Resources has been granted two prospecting [...]
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Redfire Resources, which explores for opals and diamonds in Australia, [...]
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