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Spotlight | Iran
PRAGUE, GATEWAY TO THE WEST

The Czech Republic could become the major transit point for Western high technology intended for Iran over the next few years. This is particularly true for such sensitive technologies as military electronics and nuclear energy. Possessing a technically advanced industrial [...]

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Iran
UKRAINIAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILES

The Iranian Pasdarans have been trying to reinforce their anti-aircraft defenses (I.N. n. 217). During the first week of May [...]

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United States
GEOPHYSICAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

The official transfer of the highest quality advanced geophysical surveillance technology may soon be possible following the creation of Geophysical [...]

Subscribers only 02.12.1992

Spotlight | Iran
THE NEXT NUCLEAR POWER?

Experts appearing before the House Republican Research Committee Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare have rung the alarm bell on Iran's nuclear program. "As of late 1991," they claimed "there was a high degree of certainty that the government [.

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TECHNIP'S LOCAL CONTENT CARD

Technip plans to set up an engineering affiliate in Luanda in which Angola's national oil company, Sonangal, will hold a [...]

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ENRON SIGNS ON DOTTED LINE

After years of hesitation and uncertainty, Enron signed a "framework agreement" with the government on April 30 for the "Maputo [...]

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VICE-PRESIDENT ACCUSED

A parliamentary inquiry committee looking into alleged mismanagement in the ministry of agriculture has come up with an explosive report [...]

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Although the South African authorities do not see foresee liberalizing imports of petroleum products before 2002, Afric Oil Pty Ltd [...]

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For several weeks, the inhabitants of El Obeid have been complaining of the behaviour of Chinese labourers working on construction [...]

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The main bidding for pre-selection for the main development contracts on Dalia, the second of four discoveries on Angola's block [...]

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NEW SAIBOS VESSEL TO BE ORDERED

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THIRD SUPPLY BOAT ORDERED FOR GIRASSOL

The Marseilles-based offshore services company SURF will provide a third [...]

Subscribers only Southern Africa and islands Africa Intelligence 09.09.1998

DOUBTS ON R&B FALCON/TEXACO DEAL

The drilling contractor R&B Falcon may be negotiating the possible cancellation of a three to five year drilling contract with [...]

Subscribers only The Continent Africa Intelligence 09.09.1998

GIRASOL GROUP FINALIZES PLANS

The Girasol team is finally in place. Not in Professor Tournesol's den at the Belgian comic strip character Tintin's place [...]

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The Western Power private power station project being mounted at the behest of the Ghana National Petroleum Corp. will be [...]

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Elf Congo has just signed new integrated development drilling contracts with Horwell and Sedco Forex for the Kombi-Likalala project. Work [...]

Subscribers only Central Africa Africa Intelligence 24.06.1998

LOTS OF NOISE AROUND OIL

Khartoum is multiplying its efforts to acccredit the idea of a forthcoming take-off of its petroleum industry. At the end [...]

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ELF OIL HANDS USA BRIDGE LOGISTIC CONTRACT

Elf Oil Tchad has signed a three year logistic contract [...]

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HI-TEC PROTECTION FOR PIPELINE

For just over a month, a large foreign labour force has been built up in the petroleum-rich region of Bentiu, [...]

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ELF ORDERS THIRD RIG

As it was expected to do, Elf has contracted a third deepwater rig for its E&P operations on Angola's Block [...]

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PRICE DROP'S IMPACT MARGINAL

The fall in oil prices has begun to make itself felt in E&P in general, with a number of small [...]

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CHARIVARI IN OIL

The announcement by Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) last month of the imminence of an agreement for it to set up [...]

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CMS TAKES HALF IN TAKORADI

The U.S. group CMS Energy Corporation has taken a 50% stake in a joint venture that is to own and [...]

Subscribers only West Africa Africa Intelligence 25.02.1998

BOUYGUES BEEFS UP ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT CAPACITY

The building, public works and services group Bouygues has taken [...]

Subscribers only The Continent Africa Intelligence 28.01.1998

LITTLE IMPACT FOR MERGER

The merger of Reading & Bates and Falcon Drilling which became effective on Jan. 1 with the creation of R&B [...]

Subscribers only West Africa Africa Intelligence 14.01.1998

ACCORD ON SEMI-SUB FOR GIRASOL

Elf signed a long-awaited letter of intent in mid-December with Sedco Forex for a second long term contract concerning drilling [...]

Subscribers only Southern Africa and islands Africa Intelligence 31.12.1997

ETPM TO BUILD JACKET FOR NEMBA NORTE FOR CHEVRON

The construction yard crated by ETPM in Lobito with Sonangol [...]

Subscribers only Southern Africa and islands Africa Intelligence 10.12.1997

PONTICELLI & CHAGURI LAND DEALS

The Bordeaux-based French firm Ponticelli recently won a contract in tandem with the Lebanese-Nigerian company IPCO owned by Gilbert and [...]

Subscribers only West Africa Africa Intelligence 29.10.1997

THREE RIGS TO DRILL GIRASOL

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 LAST ACT

The government has just officially launched the privatization that will go along with the oil and electricity project based on [...]

Subscribers only Central Africa Africa Intelligence 01.10.1997

START TO GIRASOL CONTRACTING

Elf had long thought of helping to finance a deep-water drilling unit for work in Angola's Block 17 in view of the scarcity of rigs adapted to the job and it has now clinched an agreement with Pride-Foramer to that [.

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$125M CONTRACT FOR BOS

Two affiliates of Bougues Offshore (BOS) signed a contract last week with Mobil for new construction on Oso in addition [...]

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HOW ARAKIS PROMOTES PROJECT

The consortium formed to carry out Arakis' project and made up of the firm's affiliate SPC, the local Sudapet company, [...]

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 04.06.1997

ARAKIS OIL PIPELINE

The recently formed consortium (China National Petroleum Corporation, Petronas Carigali [...]

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 31.05.1997

GTM TO DROP ETPM

The Lyonnaise des Eaux affiliate GTM-Entrepose is thinking of cutting the link with its offshore oil construction subsidiary ETPM, according [...]

Subscribers only The Continent Africa Intelligence 09.10.1996

THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

The International Development Association, an affiliate of the World Bank, has begun work on three projects for loans to Ethiopia, [...]

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 20.07.1996

CONTRACTS FOR MCDERMOTT-ETPM

McDermott-ETPM International, a new company formed last year following a re-organization of joint ventures between the American group and the [...]

Subscribers only West Africa Africa Intelligence 26.06.1996

ARAKIS SOLDIERING ON

Arakis Energy Corp has announced two new completions of wells drilled previously by Chevron in the Bentiu 1 formation of [...]

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 03.01.1996

LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Work is shortly to begin on the liquefaction plant that Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG) is to build at [...]

Subscribers only West Africa Africa Intelligence 03.01.1996

CONTRACTS FOR ETPM AND SAIBOS

The current oil activity along Africa's west coast has started to be reflected in the order books of ETPM International [...]

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ELF'S OPTIMUM SCHEMES

Elf plans to put Nkossa in Congo, the first development in water depths of over 200 meters in Africa, and the central platform of the Combo-Pambi complex in Angola into production almost simultaneously next May.

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ENRON PUSHING HARD

The US company Enron is pushing hard to get Mozambique's government and Empresca Nacional De Hidrocarbonetos de Mozambique to sign [...]

Subscribers only Southern Africa and islands Africa Intelligence 28.10.1995

BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

Mauritius' ministers of finance (Rama Sithanen) and energy (Swaley Kassenaly) are expected to be in Paris next week for a [...]

Subscribers only Southern Africa and islands Africa Intelligence 29.04.1995

NEW TIE FOR MCDERMOTT-ETPM

On April 5 the U.S. company McDermott and France's Entrepose pour les Travaux Pétroliers Maritimes, affiliate of GTM-Entrepose which in [...]

Subscribers only West Africa Africa Intelligence 19.04.1995

FIRMS LINE UP FOR OSO II

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TERMS SET FOR TSKJ CONTRACT

Nigeria's project to export liquified natural gas has made major advances on two fronts. Firstly, two months after the Nigerian [...]

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LNG: TECHNIP WINS NOD

Nigerian Liquid Natural Gas (NLNG) Ltd. cleared up a lot of uncertainty over a major contract for the gas liquefaction [...]

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OIL START-UP SET FOR YEAR 2000

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Subscribers only Central Africa Africa Intelligence 29.06.1994

PRIVATE SECTOR ROUND STARTS

Bidding in the pre-qualification round for the construction of Morocco's first power stations to be built with private capital was [...]

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EIB IN PIPELINE PROJECT

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Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 16.03.1994

PORT REFORM

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Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 19.02.1994

MIXED CAPITAL SOURCE-REFINERY ON TRACK

A project for a fifth oil refinery in Nigeria which [...]

Subscribers only West Africa Africa Intelligence 03.01.1994

FIRMS TO BE PRIVATISED

A delegation led by Mozambique's prime minister, Mario De Graça Machungo, met with fifty or so representatives of French companies [...]

Subscribers only Southern Africa and islands Africa Intelligence 18.12.1993

TWO STAGES FOR ABOADSE

The combustion turbine and combined cycle power station that the Volta River Authority (VRA) will run at Aboadse near Takoradi [...]

Subscribers only West Africa Africa Intelligence 15.12.1993

EIFFEL AND TECHNIP FOR SECOND PLATFORM ON COBO

Technip announced last week that its affiliate Technip Geoproduction and [...]

Subscribers only Southern Africa and islands Africa Intelligence 16.11.1993

CHEVRON TO HAVE PLATFORMS BUILT IN SOUTH AFRICA

Just as Nelson Mandela's call for the lifting of sanctions [...]

Subscribers only Southern Africa and islands Africa Intelligence 06.10.1993

THERMODYN COMPRESSION MODULE FOR COBO-PAMBI

The $13 million module will be supplied by Framatome's turbine [...]

Subscribers only Southern Africa and islands Africa Intelligence 21.09.1993

BOUYGUES AND ETPM FOR N'KOKSSA

Bouygues and its affiliate Bouygues Offshore are to team up with ETPM to build offshore supports for production and processing [...]

Subscribers only Central Africa Africa Intelligence 25.08.1993

NEW PIPELINE WRAPPED-UP

Just as the European Investment Bank announced a 200 million ECU ($240 million) loan on June 29 for the Algerian [...]

Subscribers only North Africa Africa Intelligence 07.07.1993

THE BALL IS ROLLING

Energy will not be overlooked among Ethiopian projects that are to win wide international backing worth at least $2 billion between now and June, 1994, in keeping with commitments already made ($1.2 billion following a meeting on Nov.

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 28.01.1993

BOT FOR FOXTROT

As was envisaged from the very start of negotiations in 1991 (AEM 74) a BOT (build-operate-transfer) formula has been chosen [...]

Subscribers only West Africa Africa Intelligence 14.01.1993

GAD ZE'EVI

This Israeli businessman, friend and associate of the former Kenyan energy minister, Nicholas Biwott, who left Nairobi last year, to [...]

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 26.09.1992

INGA-ASWAN: START-UP IN 1994

Lukama Nkunzi, minister for energy and oil in the out-going government of Nguza Karl-I-Bond, announced last month that construction work [...]

Subscribers only Central Africa Africa Intelligence 03.09.1992

HEADWAY IN GAS PIPELINE PROJECTS

Projects for the extension of the Algerian gas pipeline to Italy (Transmed) and for the new North Africa-Europe pipeline to [...]

Subscribers only North Africa Africa Intelligence 23.07.1992

QUESTIONS OVER ALUMINIUM PROJECT

Windhoek has signed an agreement for the development of gas at Kudu and the construction of an aluminium smelter with [...]

Subscribers only Southern Africa and islands Africa Intelligence 09.07.1992

CHEVRON SELLS OUT OIL RIGHTS

American oil company Chevron last week confirmed that it had soled its exploration and production rights in Sudan to Concorp [...]

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 27.06.1992

HEGLIG AND UNITY PROJECT UNVEILED

Chevron confirmed in San Francisco on June 15 that it had sold its exploration and production interests in Sudan to "a Sudanese company based in Khartoum" (AEM 89), Concorp International Limited. But the deal, the terms of which were not [.

Subscribers only Eastern Africa and the Horn Africa Intelligence 25.06.1992

SUGAR CANE WASTE FOR ENERGY PROJECT

The World Bank last week approved a 15-million dollar loan for a programme aimed at increasing electricity production in Mauritius, [...]

Subscribers only Southern Africa and islands Africa Intelligence 11.04.1992

LNG: BIDS SUBMITTED IN MAY

French equipment companies could obtain sub-contracting work worth as much as $500 million from the LNG project at Bonny, stated [...]

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Iran UKRAINIAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILES

United States GEOPHYSICAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

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CHEVRON FORMULA FOR WAGP

TECHNIP'S LOCAL CONTENT CARD

ENRON SIGNS ON DOTTED LINE

VICE-PRESIDENT ACCUSED

BLACK BUSINESS PETROLEUM FIRM

CHINESE LABOUR FOR EL OBEID

DALIA PRE-SELECTION IN MID-99

NEW SAIBOS VESSEL TO BE ORDERED

THIRD SUPPLY BOAT ORDERED FOR GIRASSOL

DOUBTS ON R&B FALCON/TEXACO DEAL

GIRASOL GROUP FINALIZES PLANS

WESTERN POWER'S PROJECT

CATALOGUE OF FRENCH HOPES

CONTRACTS ON KOMBI-LIKALALA

LOTS OF NOISE AROUND OIL

ELF OIL HANDS USA BRIDGE LOGISTIC CONTRACT

HI-TEC PROTECTION FOR PIPELINE

ELF ORDERS THIRD RIG

PRICE DROP'S IMPACT MARGINAL

CHARIVARI IN OIL

CMS TAKES HALF IN TAKORADI

BOUYGUES BEEFS UP ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT CAPACITY

LITTLE IMPACT FOR MERGER

ACCORD ON SEMI-SUB FOR GIRASOL

ETPM TO BUILD JACKET FOR NEMBA NORTE FOR CHEVRON

PONTICELLI & CHAGURI LAND DEALS

THREE RIGS TO DRILL GIRASOL

THE LAST ACT

START TO GIRASOL CONTRACTING

$125M CONTRACT FOR BOS

HOW ARAKIS PROMOTES PROJECT

ARAKIS OIL PIPELINE

GTM TO DROP ETPM

THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

CONTRACTS FOR MCDERMOTT-ETPM

ARAKIS SOLDIERING ON

LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

CONTRACTS FOR ETPM AND SAIBOS

ELF'S OPTIMUM SCHEMES

ENRON PUSHING HARD

BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

NEW TIE FOR MCDERMOTT-ETPM

FIRMS LINE UP FOR OSO II

TERMS SET FOR TSKJ CONTRACT

LNG: TECHNIP WINS NOD

OIL START-UP SET FOR YEAR 2000

PRIVATE SECTOR ROUND STARTS

EIB IN PIPELINE PROJECT

PORT REFORM

MIXED CAPITAL SOURCE-REFINERY ON TRACK

FIRMS TO BE PRIVATISED

TWO STAGES FOR ABOADSE

EIFFEL AND TECHNIP FOR SECOND PLATFORM ON COBO

CHEVRON TO HAVE PLATFORMS BUILT IN SOUTH AFRICA

THERMODYN COMPRESSION MODULE FOR COBO-PAMBI

BOUYGUES AND ETPM FOR N'KOKSSA

NEW PIPELINE WRAPPED-UP

THE BALL IS ROLLING

BOT FOR FOXTROT

GAD ZE'EVI

INGA-ASWAN: START-UP IN 1994

HEADWAY IN GAS PIPELINE PROJECTS

QUESTIONS OVER ALUMINIUM PROJECT

CHEVRON SELLS OUT OIL RIGHTS

HEGLIG AND UNITY PROJECT UNVEILED

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THE NEXT NUCLEAR POWER?