While Niger's hopes of building up a gold industry have receded, the new deal that operator Cogema and its Spanish and Japanese partners are seeking for the uranium sector is proving elusive. Uranium is Niger's bread and butter.
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The Zimbabwe government and the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) have just submitted a draft of a new System Development [...]
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The World Bank affiliate IFC teamed up with the insurance [...]
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France's Vivendi group is considering selling the 70% it holds [...]
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Britain's Balmoral Group has won a $21.4 million contract to supply syntactic foam for the insulation of Girasol's riser towers [...]
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With the pipeline project between Doba and Kribi coming up before the board in mid-October (AEM 258) the World Bank [...]
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Elf Congo has just put its latest development among small fields in the former Pointe Noire Grands Fonds permit, Kombi [...]
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Addax Petroleum has signed an agreement with Agip to buy the latter's Tanzanian assets with the blessings of the government, [...]
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The Sept. 13 announcement that Elf and Total were to merge has had its first visible impact in Africa with [...]
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The new deepwater drillship Pride Africa, which arrived in Angola [...]
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Cabinda Gulf Oil has not received approval to extend its [...]
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The semi-submersible Sedco 700 won't be leaving the Black Sea [...]
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The drillship Discoverer 511 which belongs to the Ghana National [...]
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Heritage Oil & Gas and Petrel are negotiating for a [...]
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Shell is still in the market for two other jack-ups [...]
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The pipeline owned by the Greater Nile consortium was damaged [...]
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At the behest of Rwanda's energy ministry, the "special projects [...]
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An American-African energy summit that the Department of Energy has [...]
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Mart Resources, Inc., a junior from Calgary, is planning to [...]
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The only resources that Kinshasa can count upon in the short term are diamonds and to a lesser extent cobalt [...]
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As the U.N. Sanctions Committee works slowly to forge a surveillance system to counter the sale of UNITA diamonds the [...]
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NGOs remain highly active while waiting for an effective international embargo to fall into place. Among them are Global Witness [...]
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Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) has swapped the rights on two properties in return for a 20% stake in Northam Platinum. [...]
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Despite encouraging initial results from exploration on the Zara gold [...]
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Mines have been sewn at the Lubilanji power station that [...]
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Canada's Crew Development Group has announced how it intends to [...]
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A resumption of production at Afrikander Lease will have resulted [...]
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Statistics from Antwerp's Higher Diamond Council for January-July show imports [...]
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Three black business companies, Eyesizwe Mining, Ilanga Mining and Sebenza [...]
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