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Tanzania legislates for resources firms to pay more or face the consequences
A perennial issue in Tanzanian politics and business – the extent to which the East African state is exploited by international capital and should reap bigger yields from its natural resources – returned with a vengeance when, on 4 July, the National Assembly unanimously...
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Tanzania
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Ghana government focuses on power sector finances
The incoming administration in Accra is faced with a power industry dominated by heavily indebted public utilities, inadequate regulation and 43 power purchase agreements signed by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) without a clear least cost or procurement plan. With the...
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Ghana
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DR Congo: Inga 3 delayed until at least 2024
A month after inviting the Spanish and Chinese consortia competing to build the 4,800MW Inga 3 hydropower dam on the Congo River to merge their offers into a single bid, the head of the Agency for the Development and Promotion of Grand Inga (ADPI), Bruno Kapandji Kalala, has...
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DR Congo
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Tanzania: Magufuli revives Stiegler’s Gorge hydro scheme
The government has revived controversial plans for the 2,100MW Stiegler’s Gorge dam in the Selous Game Reserve, despite environmentalists’ concerns about the potential impact on the World Heritage site. Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn visited Tanzania in March...
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Tanzania
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New Sparta Energy announces top team
Newly established power investment platform New Sparta Energy (NSE) has announced three major appointments to senior management. David Anson joins as a director and head of development, Richard Scott as project director, and Camille Astier as legal director. The company is a...
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Africa
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Sound Energy upbeat on Morocco
Sound Energy has announced a successful re-entry and test of the Koba-1 well on the Sidi Moktar licence. The well was drilled by Longreach Oil and Gas in 2013 but not tested. Sound said on 5 July it had successfully re-entered, completed, perforated and flared gas at surface...
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Morocco
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Algeria: New Sonatrach head’s background under scrutiny
Since Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour took over as head of Sonatrach in March, his background and history have come under intense scrutiny. While some industry participants hope that his commercial experience and attitude can revivify both Sonatrach and the oil and gas sector more...
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Algeria
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Renewables make progress but baseload remains critical
Once the right economics and policies are put in place, the pace of advance made by the most successful renewable energy types, including wind power and solar photovoltaic (PV), can be exceptionally fast. Extrapolations of continent-wide trends by the new African Energy Live...
South Africa, Morocco, Uganda, Senegal
Libya’s NOC can provide a foundation for peace and stability
Is anyone listening to National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman Mustafa Sanalla? He has issued repeated appeals to the international community to change its approach to the crisis in Libya to help his institution to better carry out its functions and to protect the interests...
Libya
AEF reflects an industry growing but in flux
The annual Africa Energy Forum (AEF) had something for all of its 2,000 delegates. It encouraged female entrepreneurs towards greater participation at all levels of the industry, heard the perennial calls for cost-reflective tariffs to help insolvent utilities balance their...
Africa
Nigeria struggles with regional balance amid Buhari’s mid-term crisis
As his presidency passes its second anniversary, Muhammadu Buhari is back in a London clinic, being treated for cancer. His absences, about which few facts filter officially, are causing jitters. The president had been expected to deliver a major anniversary speech on 29 May...
Nigeria
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15 November 2017 to 16 November 2017
Africa Investment Exchange: Power & Renewables
Now in its fourth year, AIX: Power and Renewables brings established and non-traditional investment...
RSA House, London
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POWER & ENERGY TANZANIA 2017
3rd POWER & ENERGY TANZANIA - Int'l Trade Exhibition will be held at Mlimani Conference...
Mlimani Conference Centre, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
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05 September 2017 to 07 September 2017
Power Nigeria
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Landmark Centre, Lagos, Nigeria
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12 September 2017 to 13 September 2017
Future Energy Uganda 2017
Future Energy Uganda is a two day Ugandan project investment forum and exhibition that brings...
Kampala
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18 September 2017 to 20 September 2017
LNGgc
The UK’s only Global LNG conference to address new buyers in new markets
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London
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26 September 2017 to 28 September 2017
Nigeria gas Summit 2017
The Federal Government of Nigeria has launched a National Economic and Growth Plan for the next 4...
Lagos
Nigeria
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27 September 2017 to 28 September 2017
3rd Uganda International Oil & Gas Summit
Welcome to the 3rd Uganda International Oil & Gas Summit
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Kampala Serena Hotel, Uganda
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