The mining giants -- and not only South African -- have won the third round in a game that started with agreements signed under Mobutu and Kengo and continued during Laurent Kabila's drive for power when juniors managed to get [.
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After receiving a green light from Ivory Coast to acquire and operate blocks CI-101 and 103 (AEM 219), Ranger Oil [...]
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Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas signed a new gas agreement with ENEL in London just before New Year's Eve that confirmed [...]
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The merger of Reading & Bates and Falcon Drilling which became effective on Jan. 1 with the creation of R&B [...]
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Total last week announced new results of tests that resulted in what appeared to be a second major discovery on [...]
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The impact from the slump in crude oil prices will [...]
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Western Geophysical has just started a speculative seismic survey that [...]
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Ranger is completing its exploration well in Angola with the [...]
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Elf could need a jack-up for a six-month Elf could [...]
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Santa Fe Resources is expected to enter the market in [...]
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Shell is believed to be planning to drill two wells [...]
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The impact from the drop in crude oil prices has [...]
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The British company Enterprise Oil was awarded a block nearly [...]
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A concrete step has been taken towards the deregulation of [...]
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Australia's Hardman will team up with Planet Oil (45-45) on [...]
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There have been no negotiations up to now on Spain's [...]
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The annual seminar of the Institut Francais du Petrol (IFP) [...]
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A little over seven months after signing a letter of intent with the Zimbabwe Electric Supply Authority, the British utility [...]
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Hidroelectrica de Cabora Bassa is sticking to its refusal to deliver electricity to South Africa's Eskom at the price originally [...]
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Studies underway at the ministry of mines and energy on [...]
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The French and German donor agencies CFD and KfW signed [...]
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The Democratic Republic of Congo's diamond policy has failed because the new government didn't want to -- or could not [...]
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Officials from AMFI (See Spotlight) and the Belgian-South African rail consortium Comazar are firmly convinced the Kinshasa government has done [...]
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A "strategy and cooperation" paper just signed by Niger's government and the European Commission raises the possibilities of Sysmin funding [...]
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The member states of the European Union have just approved an 80 million Ecu loan to Guinea under the Sysmin [...]
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Japan's Mitsui group has been named as a potential shareholder in the planned $2 billion Enron-Industrial Development Corp. iron and [...]
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JCI confirmed last week that it was negotiating with Austral Coal on a project concerning the Moatize coal mine. The [...]
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After Delta Gold's move in October to adopt a cautious approach to its Ngezi mine (AEM 216) new talk has [...]
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ASA Metals, a joint venture between China's East Asian Metal Investment Corp. and the state-owned Northern Province Development Co (NPDC) [...]
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Quest International Resources and Seven Star Minerals announced last week that a joint company they formed in March, 1997 had [...]
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The opposition UNITA movement's radio station announced in early January [...]
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The European Development Fund is considering a new Sysmin loan [...]
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Despite doubts over the AMFI and Tenke Mining agreements (see [...]
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In the budget it unveiled on Jan. 4, the Nigerian [...]
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