A tie-up between Sedco-Forex and Transocean has come on the heels of a wave of mega oil mergers that began with BP Amoco and looks likely to end once the double takeover battle between Total Fina and Elf runs its [.
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The Agence Francaise de Developpement has just offered Cameroon funding for facilities and work in the power sector, the first [...]
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The International Finance Corp. is going to play a leading [...]
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Talks will reportedly open soon between the government and a [...]
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In the midst of a major re-structuring, Germany's Siemens group [...]
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As negotiations with the World Bank on the privatization of [...]
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The German government has offered Mali a Ffr60 million ($9.6 [...]
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The Australian miner Aquarius Platinum says it has strong hopes that its Marikana property will eventually produce 160,000 ounces of [...]
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A proposed merger of Afrikander Lease and East Daggafontein Mines fell apart on June 10, the victim of the fall [...]
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South Africa's gold mining companies have narrowly avoided a nationwide strike just as new demonstrations by miners were planned in [...]
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Diamond output has slowed down on Sociedade de Desenvolvimento Mineiro's concession fir alluvial gems on the Cuango river in Lunda [...]
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An American company working through a local affiliate named Geovic-Cameroun has won a license to mine nickel and cobalt deposits, [...]
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Although it says there is still a lot of drilling to do, Australia's Red Back Mining claims it is close [...]
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Tanzania ranks among the countries that has been hardest hit by the drop in the gold price to under $260 [...]
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According to sources on the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services and the Treasury Department, the Clinton administration is [...]
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After two months of bargaining, Ghana's Ashanti Goldfields has reached an accord with the Ghana Mineworkers Union on a plan [...]
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While it has run into problems with Resolute over the sale of its 50% stake in the Golden Pride mine [...]
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Canada's Channel Resources has just wound up a drilling campaign [...]
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A $150 million central processing plant for small-scale miners has [...]
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Canada's Trivalence Mining Corp will shortly be recommissioning a dual [...]
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The 51-49% joint venture between Pride International and Sonangol that owns the drillship Pride Africa has taken delivery of the [...]
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Officials in the World Bank's central Africa department are counting and re-counting the numbers as the institution's board of directors [...]
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Tests will be completed in August on an exploration well [...]
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Elf has ordered a CALM loading point anchoring system from [...]
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Amerada Hess is in the market with an inquiry into [...]
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Perenco has fixed the Global Marine jack-up Glomar Adriatic I [...]
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The oil price has recovered strongly and hopes are rising [...]
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Global Marine doesn't seem all that optimistic about a recovery [...]
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Brought under the wing of Bouygues Offshore (BOS) in early [...]
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Operator Burlington Petroleum has applied for an operating license for [...]
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Australia's BHP group has signed a cooperation pact with Sonatrach [...]
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Nimr Petroleum is due to take the Actinia next month [...]
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