DEVELOPMENT:   New Plans for Niger Basin
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PARIS, Jun 26 (IPS) - New plans are being developed for the 4,100 km  Niger River that passes through several West African countries.
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After insurgents attacked a link to a key oil export terminal on the Forcados River in Nigeria's Delta region in February 2006, it took a year and a half for Royal Dutch Shell to make repairs and get part of it running again. It took just two months for insurgents to shut it down again.
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A Solid Energy report on fish in rivers downstream of its mine near Westport will be the benchmark for its environmental clean-up.   The priority is to get whitebait running in the Ngakawau River again.
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Nigerian villagers have ended their three-day occupation of three oil installations in the Niger Delta. Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell said the protestors on its two plants had departed to nearby village Freetown, on Tuesday.
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There are some signs of progress in resolving the Nigerian conflict that is riling global oil markets. The leader of militia fighters threatening to widen a battle for control of Nigeria&#39;s oil-rich south has
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A new national plan for tourism should be drafted, to give this sector a new direction, Opposition spokesman for tourism said on Monday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - BP Plc  has submitted a revised plan for preventing and responding to spills at the Prudhoe Bay oil field following pipeline corrosion problems and oil spills earlier this year, a state official said on Monday.
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Possibile interesse per la canadese Western Oil Sands
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A look across the Pacific for stock ideas.
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NIAMEY, Niger -- A company of 150 soldiers from Niger has brought the war on terrorism to a new frontier, carrying out a three-week hunt for armed bandits linked to an Algerian terror group in the inhospitable terrain of the Sahara desert and the Sahel region.
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Contractors get a boost from a major west African project.
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By S.A.S.  IT was reported in the media that the Teluk Kemang beach project in Port Dickson would be widened and its facilities upgraded.   What the authorities overlooked is the fact that the E.
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By Li Fangchao  An eight-year geological survey revealed that there is enough underground water to support the country's strategic development plan to construct energy bases in the Ordos Basin in Northwest China, geologists said.
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Science & environment: Project billed as future model for responsible mining in developing world threatens biodiversity and increasing poverty, conservationists say.
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The locations of the world's big energy reserves could bite us in the years to come.
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Security is improving in  Nigeria's oil-producing delta and oil companies are considering  a return for evacuated workers following a peace deal signed by  a rebel militia, industry sources said on Sunday.
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New technology has made it possible to unlock more oil from old fields, allowing companies to go after reserves that are harder to reach.