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Gabon
Has the Slide Been Stopped?

Gabon appears to have offset the decline of its oil output in 2003 by enhanced recovery on its old fields. [...]

Published on 10/12/2003 at 11:00 GMT

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Energy

Gabon
Elf Gabon Profits Slide

Perhaps the swift rise in oil prices that followed the terrorist attacks in New York will boost Elf Gabon ’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2001

Spotlight | Africa
Key Upstream Area for TotalFinaElf

France’s TotalFinaElf has lifted its exploration budget this year to $750 million from $700 million in 2000 and Africa will get the lion’s share. The group’s exploration drive will focus on the major oil basins that the Gulf of Guinea, [.

Subscribers only Energy 20.03.2001

Gabon
EA AND GENTRY AWAIT BETTER DAYS TO DRILL ON OFOUBOU

Gentry Petroleum indicated that several "significant leads" had been identified [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.10.1998

Gabon
NO EXPLORATION WELLS FOR ELF

Elf Gabon has acquired 11,000 km of seismic data out of the 13,000 km available for the eighth bidding round [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.1998

Spotlight | Africa
RUSH TO THE DEEP OFFSHORE

Optimism was distinctly the watchword at the Africa Upstream seminar in Johannesburg which worked to project the image of an Africa propelled into the upstream by "governments and companies working hand in hand," as South African energy and mines minister [.

Subscribers only Energy 25.09.1996

Spotlight | Africa
THE OIL CONFERENCE RUSH

No less than three oil conferences are scheduled for Africa between now and November. The onslaught is significant. A good 30 developments are to be undertaken along the West African coast before the year 2000 without even counting Nigeria, according [.

Subscribers only Energy 11.09.1996

West Africa
DEEP OFFSHORE PUSHES EXPLORATION

The deep offshore will continue to serve as the main arena of exploration activity off Western Africa. Elf's discovery of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.11.1995

Gabon
OXY TO DRILL IN 900M

Occidental Petroleum appears ready to pull out all the stops technically on its first series of three wells in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.12.1994

Gabon
ELF PLANS FRESH SELL-OFF

Elf intends to sell off further non-core assets in Gabon following the sale of its interests on the Malembe permit, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.09.1994

Gabon
"ELF NEEDED MORE THAN EVER"

"In this particularly difficult time for the oil-producing countries" Gabon has "more than ever need of Elf to contribute to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.04.1994

Spotlight | Africa, France
ELF: AFRICAN MORASS?

Output of crude oil operated by Elf in Africa has slipped only slightly in recent years - from 30.3 million tons in 1990 to 29.6 in 1991, 29.4 in 1992 and 29 Mt last year - and is bound to [.

Subscribers only Energy 03.02.1994

Gabon
ELF GABON'S ACTIVITY

Elf Gabon is preparing to put the on-shore Avocette oil field in which it operates with a 28.7% stake (other [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.02.1994

Gabon
20 BLOCKS IN SEVENTH ROUND

Prepared like the previous one with GECO-Prakla, the seventh round of Gabonese tenders for exploration rights will be launched on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.09.1993

Gabon
FIVE DEVELOPMENT PERMITS FOR ELF

Either alone or in conjunction with Elf Aquitaine and Shell Gabon, Elf Gabon has recently obtained five new onshore development [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.03.1993

Spotlight | Gabon
OPTIONS

It was not by accident that eight months ago, Jean Ping chose the occasion of Elf Gabon's one-thousandth well to express the hope there would one day be a new Gabonese oil company, one which would operate "in partnership with [.

Subscribers only Energy 02.01.1992

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Has the Slide Been Stopped?

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Gabon
Elf Gabon Profits Slide

Spotlight | Africa
Key Upstream Area for TotalFinaElf

Gabon
EA AND GENTRY AWAIT BETTER DAYS TO DRILL ON OFOUBOU

Gabon
NO EXPLORATION WELLS FOR ELF

Spotlight | Africa
RUSH TO THE DEEP OFFSHORE

Spotlight | Africa
THE OIL CONFERENCE RUSH

West Africa
DEEP OFFSHORE PUSHES EXPLORATION

Gabon
OXY TO DRILL IN 900M

Gabon
ELF PLANS FRESH SELL-OFF

Gabon
"ELF NEEDED MORE THAN EVER"

Spotlight | Africa, France
ELF: AFRICAN MORASS?

Gabon
ELF GABON'S ACTIVITY

Gabon
20 BLOCKS IN SEVENTH ROUND

Gabon
FIVE DEVELOPMENT PERMITS FOR ELF

Spotlight | Gabon
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Gabon Elf Gabon Profits Slide

Spotlight | Africa Key Upstream Area for TotalFinaElf

Gabon EA AND GENTRY AWAIT BETTER DAYS TO DRILL ON OFOUBOU

Gabon NO EXPLORATION WELLS FOR ELF

Spotlight | Africa RUSH TO THE DEEP OFFSHORE

Spotlight | Africa THE OIL CONFERENCE RUSH

West Africa DEEP OFFSHORE PUSHES EXPLORATION

Gabon OXY TO DRILL IN 900M

Gabon ELF PLANS FRESH SELL-OFF

Gabon "ELF NEEDED MORE THAN EVER"

Spotlight | Africa, France ELF: AFRICAN MORASS?

Gabon ELF GABON'S ACTIVITY

Gabon 20 BLOCKS IN SEVENTH ROUND

Gabon FIVE DEVELOPMENT PERMITS FOR ELF

Spotlight | Gabon OPTIONS

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Gabon
Has the Slide Been Stopped?

Gabon
Elf Gabon Profits Slide

Spotlight | Africa
Key Upstream Area for TotalFinaElf

Gabon
EA AND GENTRY AWAIT BETTER DAYS TO DRILL ON OFOUBOU

Gabon
NO EXPLORATION WELLS FOR ELF

Spotlight | Africa
RUSH TO THE DEEP OFFSHORE

Spotlight | Africa
THE OIL CONFERENCE RUSH

West Africa
DEEP OFFSHORE PUSHES EXPLORATION

Gabon
OXY TO DRILL IN 900M

Gabon
ELF PLANS FRESH SELL-OFF

Gabon
"ELF NEEDED MORE THAN EVER"

Spotlight | Africa, France
ELF: AFRICAN MORASS?

Gabon
ELF GABON'S ACTIVITY

Gabon
20 BLOCKS IN SEVENTH ROUND

Gabon
FIVE DEVELOPMENT PERMITS FOR ELF

Spotlight | Gabon
OPTIONS