The grave issue of massacres against refugees has put paid to the most obvious attempts by external powers to influence policy in the new Congo (DRC).This has had an impact on mining projects that preceded the upheaval in Democratic Republic [.
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The South African firm Energy Africa was awarded a licence off the western coast of the country last week. The [...]
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The die hasn't absolutely been cast on the drilling system for development wells on Girasol and Dalia, Elf's two discoveries [...]
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The Bordeaux-based French firm Ponticelli recently won a contract in tandem with the Lebanese-Nigerian company IPCO owned by Gilbert and [...]
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LASMO has been awarded an initial, one-year prospecting licence to examine a block covering 7,000 sq.km. in the Essaouira region [...]
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The exploration part of the pact that the U.S. company Environmental Remediating Holding Corp (ERHC) signed with Sao Tome & [...]
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The independent American company Nuevo Energy signed an agreement on Oct. 17 with Ghana's mines and energy minister and the [...]
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Nomeco has agreed terms with Global Marine to take a [...]
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It has emerged that Amoco will take the drillship Glomar [...]
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CMS Nomeco indicated that tests it conducted on the Number [...]
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After a pause over the last couple of months, the [...]
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Can the Toamasina refinery get a new lease on life, [...]
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The first impact of the closure of the Assab refinery [...]
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Mobil is coming back to South Africa in the lubricants [...]
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NNPC's new headquarters in Abuja will be completed by the [...]
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It is looking increasingly likely that he semi-sub Transocean Driller [...]
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A freeze in production at the Konongo gold mine now appears to be only temporary following an announcement by its [...]
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The battle lines are becoming clear in the seemingly inevitable clash of political and economic interests -- both external and [...]
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To improve its recovery rate of small-scale gold production, Ghana's Precious Minerals Marketing Corporation is experimenting with an incentive system [...]
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Samax's project to produce 170,000 ounces of gold per year [...]
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The Australian junior AfricWest Gold which was set up this [...]
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Delta Gold is reportedly on the point of signing a [...]
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JCI, which already has a gas-based steel project in Mozambique, [...]
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The Ugandan government has offered to increase Uganda's exports of electricity towards Tanzania with the construction of a line that [...]
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Sudan has fixed the conditions of a new agreement -- this time with China -- on building the hydroelectrical and [...]
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The Royal Dutch-Shell group has unveiled a five year investment [...]
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The ABB-IPS consortium which won the contract last January to [...]
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A project to renovate the old 21 MW diesel-fuelled power [...]
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The Johannesburg city council has negotiated a 585 million rand [...]
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