Pool, Congo News

Hundreds of flights in France were cancelled on Tuesday, including 40 per cent out of Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, as unions ratcheted up pressure on day two of a strike over labour rights.

Production figures are preliminary. Production from the two Tunisian fields El Bibane and Ezzaouia is no longer included due to the divestment of the fields as per 1 January 2012.

It owns and manages its resources in Tunisia, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Norway, Greenland, the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands.

POYRY PLC Press release 3 February 2012 Poyry's Water & Environment business group has been awarded a project by MPD Congo, a subsidiary of Xstrata, to help prepare the Social & Environmental Impact Assessment for the Zanaga Iron Ore Mining Project in the Republic of Congo .

Atama Plantation Ltd of Malaysia plans to invest 150 billion CFA francs in the Republic of Congo over the next 15 years developing a palm-oil project, the Central African nation's Agriculture Ministry said.

The company is engaged in the exploration and production of oil and natural gas.

BRAZZAVILLE: Africa has its first handheld tablet to rival the iPad and similar western inventions, which went on sale in the Republic of Congo on Monday, its inventor Verone Mankou said.

BRAZZAVILLE, 24 January 2012 - Up to 120,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo will be helped to return home from the north of neighbouring Republic of Congo after more than two years.

Panoro Energy ASA , the independent oil and gas company with assets in West Africa and Brazil is pleased to provide an update on the ongoing operations in Mengo-Kundji-Bindi , Republic of Congo .