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By the end of 2018, natural gas and dual fuel plants using gas will have increased from 40% of installed capacity in 2010 to nearly 48%, according to the new African Energy Data Book. The increase in gas usage has often been at the expense of coal plants, which have decreased...

Libya is producing about 1.2m b/d, close to its post-2011 revolution maximum. In September it produced an average of more than 1m b/d and in August 950,000 b/d. The most serious threat to output is currently bad weather in the Mediterranean, which at the end of November...

A donors’ conference in Abidjan on 30 November pledged $436m of financing for the resettlement element of Niger’s flagship Kandadji dam scheme. Nearly 50,000 people in 24 villages will be affected by the development, which aims to irrigate more than 45,000ha of land to...

An unusually short rainy season has sharply reduced power production from the Kaléta dam, obliging the authorities to increase their use of thermal energy. Electricité de Guinée (EDG), the state power company managed by France’s Veolia, obtains its grid power from a mix of...

Sonatrach and Turkey’s Ronesans Holding have announced they are to invest $1.2bn-$1.3bn to build a polypropylene plant in Ceyhan industrial zone in southern Turkey. Ronesans chairman Erman Ilicak said the plant would produce 450,000 t/yr of polypropylene, with propane gas to...