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AES Begins Building Gas-Fired Power Plant In Cameroon

AES-Sonel, the Cameroon affiliate of U.S. energy firm AES Corp. (AES), last month began construction of a 216 megawatt gas-fired electricity plant at Mpolonwe near the port town of Kribi. The project, to cost EUR255 million, is designed to provide energy for mineral mining and will take 23 months to complete. 21 March 2010 NASDAQ
Congo Plans Oil Pipeline from Central Basin to Atlantic in 2015

Democratic Republic of Congo plans to begin work on a 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) oil pipeline from its central forests to the Atlantic coast as early as 2015, the Ministry of Oil said. 29 March 2010 Bloomberg

March 2010

Cameroon Iron officials brief President Paul BIYA

The President of the Republic His Excellency Paul BIYA has received audience the President of Cameroon Iron S.A., Geoff Wedlock, at an audience in Unity Palace. 9 February 2010 Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon
Cameroon- Victoria Oil & Gas announces seismic results

Passive seismic spectroscopy survey at Logbaba shows major, previously unknown, potential accumulation. Results also indicate best prospectivity in the existing structure to the north of current drilling location. 04 Feb 2010 Energy-pedia Seismic News
Des diamants au Cameroun- que devrions-nous faire
Geovic Mining Corporation resolves an accounting dispute with the Cameroon Investment Corporation
Geovic to Update Feasibility Study
National Oil Refinery Company
Noble Energy rejoint les entreprises soutenant l’ITIE

Noble Energy, l’entreprise américaine siégeant à Houston, a officiellement rejoint les Entreprises soutenant l’ITIE en janvier 2010. C’est la 46ème entreprise à soutenir l’ITIE au niveau international. 25 janvier 2010 Secrétariat de l’ITIE.
RDC - la société française PERENCO REP accusée de déverser des déchets toxiques dans la mer

Le député national de la province du Bas-Congo (Ouest de la RDC), Jean Claude Mvuemba, a accusé la société pétrolière française PERENCO REP d’avoir déversé des déchets toxiques dans la mer. 16 février 2010 Afrique redaction
Cameroon’s earnings from transit fees of the Chad Cameroon oil pipeline revealed

Le Cameroun a déjà engrangé un peu plus de 66,7 milliards FCFA au titre des droits de transit du pipeline tchadien depuis son inauguration en octobre 2003; 29 Decembre 2009 APA
Is “Oil Fund” all Ghana needs to defeat the Resource Curse?

The debate about the resource curse and the possible way forward in addressing it continue unabated. In an article on how Ghana could handle the problem of the resource curse with its impending oil revenue, columnist Stephen Yeboah of the Department of Planning at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana, X-rays the different methods and concludes that even the setting up of an oil fund alone cannot resolve the problem of the resource curse in Ghana. 01 February 2010 Ghanaweb
US Embassy Gas Financing in Cameroon

The United States of America supports natural gas infrastructure development and study on petroleum products pipeline networks in Cameroon; Remarks of Ambassador Janet E. Garvey on the Signing of the “Pipeline” and “Gas to Market” Grant Agreements between the Government of Cameroon, through the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources, and the Government of the U.S., through the USTDA and the U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon, Janet Garvey. September 14, 2009

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