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As dos Santos retires, Angola sticks with mega-projects to promise brighter future
Critics abroad and poorer Angolans may question where billions of dollars of oil revenues have gone in past decades, but the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) prefers to trumpet its successes in the run-up to parliamentary elections on 23 August that...
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Angola
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Community-owned solar grid transforms Zimbabwe district
A community-owned 99kW solar mini-grid is providing power to the Mashaba community in Gwanda district, an arid rural enclave in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland South region. The 99kW Mashaba power plant, the country’s first such project, was implemented by Practical Action Southern...
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Zimbabwe
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Libya: Theft, vandalism and delays exacerbate power deficit
Libya is enduring what has become an annual summer power supply crisis. The gap between supply and demand has grown to its highest level since the crisis began. On 7 August, General Electric Company of Libya (Gecol) estimated that peak load was approximately 6,950MW while...
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Libya
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Kosmos plans London listing, new drilling
Kosmos Energy has announced that it will seek a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to broaden the company’s international investor base. “We selected the LSE for our secondary listing because of its strong liquidity, reputation for transparency and...
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Africa
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Libya: Exports hit 1.1m barrels
National Oil Corporation (NOC) lifted a blockade of the pipelines leading to and from the Az-Zawiya refinery west of Tripoli in a matter of hours in early August, demonstrating that it still has the leverage to guarantee security at its facilities. Thanks to a combination of...
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Libya
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Suez, Cape among the world’s most critical oil transit chokepoints
In a new report, the US government’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) has identified seven major chokepoints for the worldwide maritime transit of oil, which accounted for about 61% of global petroleum and other liquids production movements in 2015 (when total world...
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Africa
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Uganda: New consortium revives refinery scheme
The government says it has agreed core project terms with a new consortium to develop its controversial refinery project. The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development said the Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium was made up of GE Oil & Gas, US developer Yaatra Ventures...
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Uganda
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As crude prices plateau, $50/bbl has become the new normal
Production cuts by a majority of Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) producers, working in coordination with non-Opec exporters led by Russia, have helped to raise oil prices from their 2014-16 lows; the strategy seems likely to maintain crude benchmarks...
Africa
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
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