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South Africa
United States in natural gas

The United States Trade and Development Agency provided the funds to finance studies on the exploitation of South African natural gas. [...]

Published on 01/02/2003 at 11:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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South Africa
Forrest Forges Local Ties

The U.S. firm Forest Oil looks set to bring South Africa's national oil company Petro SA into its acreage in order to finance development of the Ibhubesi field.

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South Africa
Debut on Ibhubesi

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South Africa
SASOL-PETRONAS ALLIANCE LOOMS

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TOTAL KEEPS UP PACE IN AFRICA

Output from small and medium-sized fields which was characterized by the production start-up 15 years ago on the 2/85 block [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.04.1997

Spotlight | South Africa
SOUTH AFRICA: A QUESTION OF TIMING

Somebody once said that "history never repeats itself, it stutters." The debate surrounding the overhaul of South Africa's oil sector that sprang from a change whose history has yet to be written is perhaps no longer stuck in its tracks.

Subscribers only Energy 29.05.1996

South Africa
IEA PINPOINTS THE PROBLEMS

Now that the Constitution has been adopted followed by the less predictable development of vice president Frederik de Klerk's departure [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.1996

South Africa
TOTAL'S "TEST" SHAREHOLDERS

South Africa has been chosen alongside Argentina and Thailand with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.03.1996

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South African mines and energy minister Pik Botha visited Algiers last week for talks concerning cooperation projects and particularly the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.1996

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AFRICA OIL 95'

Unlike last year's first-ever Africa Oil conference that was held in Cape Town in October, the second version this year [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Madagascar
GAS POTENTIAL EXAMINED

Madagascar's Office des Mines Nationales et des Industries Strategiques (OMNIS) has signed a contract with the British firm Intera for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Spotlight | Ethiopia
HEADWAY IN ENERGY AND MINES

Work will soon begin on the Calub project that aims to produce 65,000 t/year of motor and household fuels from the wet gas deposit in the Ogaden region. Production start-up is set for August, 1997 and studies will shortly be [.

Subscribers only Energy 22.02.1995

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

"The government has signed with ENH," declared Mario Marques, managing director of Mozambique's Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos. However, it was not with ENH but with Enron that Mozambique had signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the Pande gas deposit, [.

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South Africa
SASOL BARGAINING IN BRAZIL

Sasol's relations with Brazil are not limited to sponsoring the Jordan formula 1 racing car piloted by the new national [...]

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Spotlight | Rwanda
ELECTRICITY PRIVATIZED

Along with the Ivory Coast, and shortly Guinea, Rwanda will count among the first African countries to privatize the management of its electricity sector with a "Project for the Rehabilitation of the Energy Sector" for which the International Development Association [.

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Spotlight | Ethiopia
A FRANCE-U.S. BATTLEGROUND

In spite of the poverty of the peoples and the weakening of the States of the Horn of Africa, this area maintains a strategic value. The truth of this fact was underlined at a meeting on Ethiopia at the Paris [.

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Spotlight | Sudan
A MURKY TALE

Several new twists have been added to the jumble of Sudanese projects revolving around Chevron's discoveries. Within the space of a few days the political-industrial-financial saga took on dimensions far beyond what would be considered normal for a country that [.

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Zimbabwe
CBM PROJECT GATHERS STEAM

A project to develop and use coal-bed methane (CBM) in the Lowveld region of Zimbabwe is expected to be carried [...]

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Nigeria
PROCESSING FOR DOMESTIC MARKET

Nigeria is working to increase availability of oil products on the domestic market following a recent wave of riots set [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.06.1992

Zimbabwe
SYNTHETIC DIESEL OIL PROJECT

As Zimbabwe presses ahead with the appraisal of coal bed methane reserves in the south east of the country, Africa [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.06.1992

Spotlight | Southern Africa, The Indian ocean islands
INDIAN OCEAN: A NEW REGIONAL DEAL

The predictable extension of trade relations between members of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) and their neighbours in southern Africa, in particular with the Republic of South Africa, is expected to modify the whole panorama of regional cooperation.

Subscribers only 30.05.1992

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Forrest Forges Local Ties

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Debut on Ibhubesi

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U.S. Firms Bring in Mvelaphanda

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TOTAL KEEPS UP PACE IN AFRICA

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TOTAL'S "TEST" SHAREHOLDERS

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GAS POTENTIAL EXAMINED

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HEADWAY IN ENERGY AND MINES

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ELECTRICITY PRIVATIZED

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A FRANCE-U.S. BATTLEGROUND

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South Africa Forrest Forges Local Ties

South Africa Debut on Ibhubesi

South Africa U.S. Firms Bring in Mvelaphanda

South Africa SASOL-PETRONAS ALLIANCE LOOMS

Africa, France TOTAL KEEPS UP PACE IN AFRICA

Spotlight | South Africa SOUTH AFRICA: A QUESTION OF TIMING

South Africa IEA PINPOINTS THE PROBLEMS

South Africa TOTAL'S "TEST" SHAREHOLDERS

Algeria PROJECTS WITH SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa AFRICA OIL 95'

Madagascar GAS POTENTIAL EXAMINED

Spotlight | Ethiopia HEADWAY IN ENERGY AND MINES

Spotlight | South Africa ENERGY WEEK

South Africa SASOL BARGAINING IN BRAZIL

Spotlight | Rwanda ELECTRICITY PRIVATIZED

Spotlight | Ethiopia A FRANCE-U.S. BATTLEGROUND

Spotlight | Sudan A MURKY TALE

Zimbabwe CBM PROJECT GATHERS STEAM

Nigeria PROCESSING FOR DOMESTIC MARKET

Zimbabwe SYNTHETIC DIESEL OIL PROJECT

Spotlight | Southern Africa, The Indian ocean islands INDIAN OCEAN: A NEW REGIONAL DEAL

Spotlight | Libya PRESSURE BUILDS UP

Spotlight | Madagascar TURMOIL

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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?

South Africa
United States in natural gas

South Africa
Forrest Forges Local Ties

South Africa
Debut on Ibhubesi

South Africa
U.S. Firms Bring in Mvelaphanda

South Africa
SASOL-PETRONAS ALLIANCE LOOMS

Africa, France
TOTAL KEEPS UP PACE IN AFRICA

Spotlight | South Africa
SOUTH AFRICA: A QUESTION OF TIMING

South Africa
IEA PINPOINTS THE PROBLEMS

South Africa
TOTAL'S "TEST" SHAREHOLDERS

Algeria
PROJECTS WITH SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa
AFRICA OIL 95'

Madagascar
GAS POTENTIAL EXAMINED

Spotlight | Ethiopia
HEADWAY IN ENERGY AND MINES

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

South Africa
SASOL BARGAINING IN BRAZIL

Spotlight | Rwanda
ELECTRICITY PRIVATIZED

Spotlight | Ethiopia
A FRANCE-U.S. BATTLEGROUND

Spotlight | Sudan
A MURKY TALE

Zimbabwe
CBM PROJECT GATHERS STEAM

Nigeria
PROCESSING FOR DOMESTIC MARKET

Zimbabwe
SYNTHETIC DIESEL OIL PROJECT

Spotlight | Southern Africa, The Indian ocean islands
INDIAN OCEAN: A NEW REGIONAL DEAL

Spotlight | Libya
PRESSURE BUILDS UP

Spotlight | Madagascar
TURMOIL

Mauritius
CHAGOS ISSUES FORCES NEW MOVES