Mobil had clearly been keen on acquiring a holding in Engen, a company created following Gencor's 1989 purchase of the refinery and distribution assets of the U.S. group's South African and southern African affiliate Trek.
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At the latest meeting of its board on June 13 the Caisse Française de Developpement approved a Ffr220 million ($44 [...]
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After winning a green light from the energy ministry, the Kenya Power & Lighting Corporation (KPLC) is reportedly proceeding with [...]
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Lynjebygg is currently completing the installation of 200 masts for [...]
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The Tunisian engineering and construction firm EPPM has launched the [...]
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Spie Batignolles and Technicatome, an affiliate of France's Commissariat à [...]
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The Australian gold exploration firm Leo Shield Exploration NL, which already owns attractive properties in Ghana, has now acquired 1359 [...]
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Rwanda's mining operations that survived the 1994 upheaval are reportedly being directly managed by the FPR's army outside of any [...]
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The European Commission in Brussels has taken stock of Sysmin projects approved during Lome III and in the first phase [...]
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Initial drilling by Vancouver-based operator Imperial Metals on the M'Banga licence covering 750 sq.km. some 50 km west of Niamey [...]
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Birim Goldfields Inc. of Montreal and Australia's Esmeralda Exploration NL [...]
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Aquarius Exploration which last year bought several platinum properties close [...]
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Amcan Minerals Ltd. of Toronto has raised US$1 million for [...]
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The old Ondundu gold mine in Namibia is to be [...]
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AEM has learned that Proparco, an affiliate of Caisse Francaise [...]
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Addax Petroleum has teamed up with Abacan in the current phase of negotiations with the Ivory Coast government which has [...]
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As if to stress the ever-greater secrecy surrounding projects in Algeria's oil and gas industry, Radio Alger suddenly revealed two [...]
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Petro Canada announced that it had put the Tamadanet oil field which it discovered in 1994 in the Ghadames basin [...]
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Petronas is paying an estimated $440 million for its 30% interest in Engen, a company that holds a quarter of [...]
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UMIC is finalizing three rig fixtures to cover its ongoing drilling requirements in offshore Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea. It [...]
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McDermott-ETPM International, a new company formed last year following a re-organization of joint ventures between the American group and the [...]
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The jack-up Santa Fe Rig 136 has been fixed by [...]
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The Brussels-based International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) announced [...]
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Confirmed for Consolidated, the Saipem jack-up Perro Negro 5 arrived [...]
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Elf is expected to shortly issue an invitation to tender [...]
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The semi-submersible rig Zagreb I is preparing to mobilise to [...]
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Operator Elf Congo started up production on Nkossa on June [...]
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Statoil may need a second semi for a term programme [...]
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Tenders were submitted to Elf on June 14 for a [...]
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The Ocean Liberator drilling rig has finished two firm wells [...]
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As Kitina is planned to go into production next year [...]
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