Addressing the food versus fuel debate in Ghana Business Day Online Concerns over energy supply security and oil-price volatility are generating greater interest in alternative energy sources in Ghana. Civil society groups want a comprehensive biofuel policy. Godwin NNANNA in Accra writes that so far the policy has been slow in coming | The lines between energy and ...
Tony Hayward: BP's straight-talking chief on evolution not revolution The Guardian | Despite share price worries BP's chief executive Tony Hayward remains focused on a positive future | BP chief executive Tony Hayward is optimistic and upbeat about the company's future. Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters | With £5bn being wiped , a difficul...
Build, pillage, then privatise: a short history of mine nationalisation in Africa. Mineweb JOHANNESBURG - | A good number of enquiries have landed up in my bunker, mainly from offshore, about why the ANC Youth League continues to crank out loose gimcrack talk about nationalising South Africa's mines. This week, the mines ministe...
Saudi mining sector gaining momentum Mineweb KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - | The mining sector in top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is slowly gaining momentum as foreign companies look to make investment in a sector the government sees as important for economic diversification. | Saud...
Tasnee seeks partners for metal smelter Arab News | Reuters | JEDDAH: Saudi Industrial Group Tasnee plans to build an integrated smelter for copper, lead and zinc in the Kingdom as it looks to diversify away from petrochemicals, a company executive said. | The plant's construction in the Red Sea por...
Arabian American Retains Risk Management Firm redOrbit Posted on: Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 07:30 CST | DALLAS, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arabian American Development Co. (Nasdaq: ARSD) today announced that it has retained Summit Energy Services, Inc. to work with senior management of its South H...
Mining conference called off without warning Arab News | Roger Harrison | Arab News | JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia's high profile international mining conference was canceled without warning on Monday. Yet its accompanying exhibition remained open to much confusion. | The official excuse, which was announced to ...
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Dazzling haute couture rises from Lebanon's ruins China Daily | PARIS - Lebanon's new star couturiers face the typical problems of people working in fashion: snarled deliveries, canceled trips, delayed fittings. | Only in their case, such hic...
Aramco chief seeks to ease oil production worries Daily Star Lebanon | Friday, January 29, 2010 | - Powered by | DAVOS, Switzerland: The head of Saudi oil giant Aramco on Thursday sought to ease international concerns over dwindling stocks of oil bu...
Exxon's Profit Fell 23% in Fourth Quarter The New York Times | Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said that its profit dropped 23 percent in the fourth quarter, reflecting lower oil prices and weaker demand for fuels amid a slowing economy. | Exxonof $6.05 billion, or $1.27 a share, ...
Lukoil and Statoil snag West Qurna Upstream Online | Russia's Lukoil and Norway's Statoil have signed a final agreement to develop the second phase of Iraq's giant West Qurna oilfield. | The 20-year development contract for the 12.9 billion barrel field in Iraq's south is the last to be signed of 10 ...
Aramco to put $120bn in tank Upstream Online | State-owned Saudi Aramco plans to invest around $120 billion over the next five to six years in developing projects in the oil and petrochemicals sectors, chief executive Khalid al-Falih has said. | Saudi Aramco has completed a number of refinery e...
Total keeps North Sea efforts up Upstream Online | French oil giant Total is stepping up efforts to extract oil and gas from the North Sea, setting aside at least a fifth of its global upstream budget for the area, a senior company official said today. | Patrice de Vivies, in charge of exploration ...
Saudi mining sector gaining momentum Mineweb KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - | The mining sector in top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is slowly gaining momentum as foreign companies look to make investment in a sector the government sees as important for economic diversification. | Saud...
MEND threatens 'all-out' attacks Independent online | Lagos - Nigeria's main rebel group on Saturday called off a truce in the oil-rich Niger Delta, threatening an "all-out onslaught" and adding to the political and economic woes of Africa's oil and gas giant. | The announcement is a fresh blow for au...
Assad vows to stand by Lebanon in any conflict with Israel Daily Star Lebanon | By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Monday, February 08, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: Syria would support Lebanon in the event of any attack by Israel, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Sunday, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported. “Syria will stand alongside the government and people of Lebanon...
