Are independent power producers of electricity (IPPs) and interconnections complementary or competitive? Put like that, by Jacques Girod, director of France's Institut d'Economie et de Politique de l'Energie, the question covers possible collision between interconnections and country-level reforms.
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The ÖMV board of directors decided last week that the company would not be the associate and "technical partner" of [...]
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Negotiations are under way for Arco to enter Mozambique's exploration production. Industry sources in that country telle AEM the US [...]
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The West African Gas Pipeline project which is to link Nigeria to Ghana via Benin and Togo will be on [...]
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Abacan has made an oil discovery with its JVE-1 well, spudded in March this year on Block 309 in Nigeria, [...]
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Benin's mining, energy and hydraulics minister Emmanuel Golou on October 11 signed an agreement with the independent US company Tarpon [...]
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Shell has obtained, with Namibia's second round, an extension of [...]
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Mobil has issued letters of intent for a number of [...]
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AEM sources report Texaco has finally agreed with Saipem a [...]
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Marathon has again chartered the jack-up Glomar Adriatic V which [...]
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Global Marine needs a jack-up in the United states in [...]
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Mobil, which has Global Marine's drillship Robert F Bauer on [...]
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Mitsubishi Petroleum Development last week came onto the permits Akori [...]
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The shallow-water jack-up NN-1 is being reactivated in Nigeria for [...]
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Nouakchott is expected to officialize shortly a permit grouping Blocks [...]
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Central African Republic might shortly become eligible for Sysmin intervention, its official representative to the European Union Guy Sokambi told [...]
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The programme of about a dozen Namibian mining projects for which the European Development Fund had awarded a subsidy of [...]
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Sierra Rutile and its shareholders CRL (Australia) and Nord (United States) are having trouble finding the US$80 million they consider [...]
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A Canadian "junior company" already present in Niger with Reunion Mining (see "ACP-EU") has just made its entry into Guinea [...]
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After having opened the door to Centamin on the licences [...]
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BHP announced on October 16 the sale of its 20 [...]
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Before launching a first drilling programme on the gold concessions [...]
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The Canadian agency CIDA, which had pulled out, is in process of getting back into the game for financing the [...]
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AEM learns that four pre-selected groups have now received the [...]
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The Energie du Mali management contract for four years, finalized [...]
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Elyo (Lyonnaise des Eaux), the Canadian Lavallin, and the Dow [...]
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The major Souapiti hydroelectric project (750 MW) on the river [...]
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