Vol 56 No 25 | OIL AND GASMINING New SEC rules 18th December 2015 Oil, gas and mining companies will be forced to publish payments made to foreign governments under new rules from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. According to...
Vol 56 No 23 | OIL AND GASMINING Curses and compliance 20th November 2015 Mandatory disclosure is new to oil, gas and mining giants. They are still doing battle with NGOs to minimise regulation Until very recently, the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI), launched in 2002 by then British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was widely seen as the gold standard for regulating...
Vol 56 No 19 | MINING Frank’s fickle fortunes 24th September 2015 The self-styled Emperor of West African Resources has seen his empire’s foundations badly shaken in the past year In the face of tumbling commodity prices, the operations of Vasile Frank Timis in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Senegal and Sierra Leone have sunk, stopped producing or...
Vol 56 No 18 | MINING Miner wobbles 10th September 2015 Two international mining giants are in dire straits – Glencore and Lonmin – and taking parts of the economies of Congo-Kinshasa, South Africa and Zambia with them. Even...