Horizon Oil has agreed to sell 40% of its assets in Papua New Guinea, which it hopes will underpin a mid-scale LNG project, to Japanese utility Osaka Gas for $204 million, the Australia-listed company said Thursday. The purchase price ...
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Grupo Abayak AKOGA Cemento cc. has awarded FLSmidth a contract for the supply of a 3000 tpd greenfield cement plant. The plant will be built in Akoga on the mainland of Equatorial Guinea. The contract, which is worth around EUR68 million, ...
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FLSmidth has secured a €68 million order from Grupo Abayak AKOGA Cemento SA to supply a 3000 tonnes per day green field cement plant in Akoga, Equatorial Guinea. The order includes plant engineering and all main equipment, including ...
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Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has received $1.3m in Australian government funding as part of the Clean Technology Food and Foundries Investment program. The funds will be used to install PET bottle self-manufacture or 'blow-fill' technology. The ...
London-listed Bellzone Mining has provided an update on the anticipated production and shipment volumes from the Forécariah joint venture in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa. Bellzone expects to produce and export 800,000 mt to ...
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Farmscrapers are vertical farming on steroids No science in far left opposition to GMO foods Death, liberty, Cheetos, and the American way China is surging ahead with a research project aimed at identifying millions of genetic variations ...
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Australian mining giant Rio Tinto remains committed to its $10 billion Simandou iron ore projects located in Guinea, West Africa, despite the slowdown in progress regarding development of the project, according to media reports. The ...
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Rice is king — the food staple of the world. It is also a political lightning rod and the newest battleground in the GM crop war. Golden rice, created in the late 1990s, offers a lifeline to millions of children that die each decade ...
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Microsoft is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband access using TV white spaces and solar-powered base stations, as part of a long-term strategy to spread mobile telephony and ...
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Microsoft has announced that it is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband access using TV white spaces and solar-powered base stations. The move comes as part of a long-term ...
ExxonMobil's Papua New Guinea LNG plant is on schedule to start up and ship its first LNG in 2014, Peter Botten, Managing Director of minority project shareholder Oil Search, said at a conference Thursday. The 6.9 million mt/year, ...
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Expropriation and resource nationalism will remain the main risks for miners in 2013, according to a report published Wednesday by UK-based risk consultancy Maplecroft. Since the appropriation of mining assets by governments continues to ...
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Mario Sala,Area Manager of Italia's leading steel supplier Tuxor expressed the company's operations and the general situation of the steel markets at the SteelOrbis Spring'12 Conference and 66th IREPAS Meeting held in London. Could you ...
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NICKEL is on track to end 2012 as the worst performing base metal and 2013 doesn't look much better. In fact, the only hope for existing nickel producers is that some of the emerging operations strike technical problems in their ...
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Bellzone Mining has made its first shipment of iron ore from the Forecariah joint venture in the Republic of Guinea. Bellzone’s CEO Mr Glenn Baldwin said the shipment of 63,000 tonnes on December 26 was made before the company's ...
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