Elf had long thought of helping to finance a deep-water drilling unit for work in Angola's Block 17 in view of the scarcity of rigs adapted to the job and it has now clinched an agreement with Pride-Foramer to that [.
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The Israeli oil group Naphta has been revealed as the owner of the Marine III licence in Congo following a [...]
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Elf Congo has just begun work which will lead to a production start-up on the small Kombi oil field on [...]
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AEM understands that the Canadian company Abacan has begun negotiating with the Benin government and Addax Petroleum to buy the [...]
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Anadarko has confirmed its latest discovery with the HBNSE-1 well on Hassi Berkine Sud-Est in block 404 on the Hassi [...]
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France's Bouygues Offshore saw its net earnings advance by 17% to Ffr157 million ($26.6 million) on the first half of [...]
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Sasol is considering a new extension to the Natref refinery and a decision will be made by the year's end. [...]
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While the market for rigs, and particularly for semi-submersibles, is tight in West Africa the problem is just as urgent [...]
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Expronet, a company set up in June by two former bosses of United Meridian and registered in the Cayman Islands, [...]
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Algeria has wasted no time in asserting its determination to maintain and even accentuate its main options concerning gas. This [...]
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Ranger is to operate the development on the Espoir field on Ivory Coast's CI-26 block. An agreement has been reached [...]
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Construction will shortly start on a brand new vessel for [...]
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Global Pacific and Partners has added a new conference to [...]
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A visit by American businessmen to Luanda last week was [...]
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The semi-submersible drilling rig Hakuryu V has arrived from Africa [...]
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The private Ivory Coast distribution company Petro-Ivoire now has Morocco's [...]
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On the heels of two major campaigns in Ivory Coast [...]
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While Chevron waits for approval from NNPC for a one-year [...]
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British Gas announced a test flow of nearly 600,000 cu.m./day [...]
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Calgary-based Eurogas has just spudded the first of two wells [...]
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Tunisia's first private power station at Rades will be built and operated by a consortium made up by the U.S. [...]
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ABB and CMS Energy have put together a financial package for the second section of the coal-fuelled Jorf Lasfar power [...]
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A consortium of Danish and Norwegian agencies and companies, including [...]
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As had seemed highly likely for some months (AEM 204), [...]
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The Songo Songo gas-electricity project mounted by Ocelot and TransCanada [...]
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The Caisse Francaise de Developpment has granted a new loan [...]
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The Ivory Coast government has given a green light to the country's oil and mines minister, Lamine Fadika, to examine [...]
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The state-owned mining company Sodemi has brought an Australian newcomer, Carnegie Minerals, into the 1,000 sq.km. exploration licence it has [...]
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American Mineral Field's project involving the re-processing of tailings at [...]
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The Anglo-Canadian company Samax Gold has made a new gold [...]
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