At least $130 million needs to be invested in Congo-Kinshasa's Southern railway network if its capacity to carry Katanga's mining output south via Zambia is to be restored, according to an initial assessment by experts from the Comazar consortium.
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Year-long talks on handing the franchise for Rabat's electricity and water services to a Portuguese-Spanish consortium made up of Electricidade [...]
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After an initial loan of Ffr220 million ($36.6 million) in 1996, the Caisse Francaise de Developpement (CFD) has followed up [...]
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The Mozambique Transmission Co. (Motraco), a consortium set up around [...]
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Invitations to tender have just been issued for three contracts [...]
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A first promotional presentation of the 12 ultra deep offshore blocks that Gabon will put up for grabs later this [...]
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The McDermott-ETPM joint venture is going to be broken up and the affiliate of GTM-Entrepose (of France's Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux [...]
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The Exxon group which operates in Chad's oil project and in the TOTCO and COTCO companies that will operate the [...]
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Elf is on the verge of obtaining a 30% stake in Congo's Mer Tres Profonde Nord offshore block, the French [...]
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Elf has just won a licence in Equatorial Guinea's deep offshore, marking its return to a country in which it [...]
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Africa's share in Elf's oil output climbed last year and the trend could well be confirmed in the medium-term with [...]
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After lengthy negotiations Total and the National Nigerian Petroleum Corp (NNPC) have just confirmed an agreement following a memorandum of [...]
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M0arathon has agreed terms to take the drillship Glomar Robert [...]
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Shell has negotiated a two well assignment with the jack-up [...]
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The semi-submersible Atwood Eagle left Equatoral Guinea on March 4 [...]
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Shell has tendered for a swamp barge to drill one [...]
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The tender-assist drilling unit Searex IX is being extended by [...]
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Corexland BV is looking for a jack-up for a three [...]
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The Algerian energy and mines ministry is organizing a day-long [...]
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An explosion occurred on March 3 on a gas pipeline [...]
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The jack-up Compact Driller will leave West Africa in June [...]
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The National Oil Corp. (NOC) is planning to open a [...]
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An Italian member of the European Parliament, Ernesto Caccavale, has [...]
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While a re-structuring of the Nimba Mountain project in Guinea is underway, the South African junior Amalia signed an agreement [...]
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China's Foreign Engineering and Construction Corporation (NFC), an affiliate of state-owned Non-Ferrrous Metal Industry, has been awarded the Chambishi copper [...]
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Just over a year after Sadiola , the first industrial-scale gold mine in the Sahel, was put into production Anglo [...]
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General Solomon Mujuru is undestood to have reached an agreement with the government on the fate of his 27% stake [...]
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BHP has just confirmed an option accord on an exploration [...]
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The government is thinking of building a fertilizer plant for [...]
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Jean-Raymond Boulle's American Mineral Fields company has a new chairman, [...]
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Six new gold exploration licences valid for three years have [...]
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Nevsun has signed an agreement with Trillion Resources and Oliver [...]
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Quasim Mining Enterprises Ltd. has temporarily halted production on the [...]
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The liquidation of Sizarail, holder of the Katanga railway concession [...]
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The Association des Diamantaires du Kwango (ADK) which speaks for [...]
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