The supposed putsch in Nigeria on Dec. 21 stirred some media interest but only briefly. From the oil standpoint, however, the re-appearance of oil minister Don Etiebet in the government formed on Dec. 16 when he had been scheduled to [.
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A number of efforts will be carried out in Burkina Faso in 1998 to reduce energy costs. A major drive [...]
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Invitations to tender for the privatization of Niger's power sector, and specifically the operating concession for Nigelec, will be issued [...]
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Power shedding is going to become widespread on Ghana's electricity grid in January. It began in July at the same [...]
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An agreement was announced in Cotonou between Christmas and New [...]
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The new year will see an electricity interconnection between Ivory [...]
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Two little-known companies that, to our knowledge, haven't yet worked in Africa have signed an agreement with the Agence de [...]
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Agip celebrated the Christmas holidays with a few days in advance by signing a stake-swap agreement with Anadarko that will [...]
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The timetable for Niger's structural adjustment program approved by the IMF calls for initiatives to identify "high potential areas" for [...]
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The Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH) last week announced an agreement allowing CMS Nomeco and Globex Cameroon to operate on [...]
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Elf signed a long-awaited letter of intent in mid-December with Sedco Forex for a second long term contract concerning drilling [...]
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Chevron and its partners in the Cabinda offshore had every reason to celebrate this Christmas. The California-based group announced a [...]
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Petro-Canada has made a new gas/condensate discovery on the Tinhert [...]
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Chevron is going to not only press ahead with work [...]
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Agip announced on Dec. 22 that production had begun on [...]
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Arco is planning to drill Padouk 1, its first well [...]
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Sweden's Forcenergy is drilling a second exploratory well on its [...]
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Ocelot Energy is beginning commercial oil production from its onshore [...]
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Under an agreement signed on Dec. 18 Pioneer Oil and [...]
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Ivory Coast's oil minister has received a green light to [...]
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The International Finance Corp. (World Bank) has approved a $60 [...]
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Western Atlas has negotiated a two year contract with Forasol [...]
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Elf has issued a call to tender for a firm [...]
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Falling gold prices have forced two Australian companies with interests in Africa, Panorama Resources and Tanganyika Gold, to merge. Panorama [...]
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Katanga's mining industry is likely to remember New Year's Day, 1998 for a long time barring a last-minute -- and [...]
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Australia's Anvil Mining company, which has a 12,900 sq.km. concession in Shaba near the Zambian border -- and which includes [...]
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Duferco plans to commission a plant it is building downstream from the ISCOR's new steel works (hot rolling) at Saldanha [...]
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Following the recent ratification of its new mining code (AEM [...]
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