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Equatorial Guinea lining up strategic partner for Gas Megahub
Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons plans to announce the appointment of a strategic partner for its Gas Megahub project by October. Mines and hydrocarbons minister Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima told African Energy that the strategic partner would start work on...
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Equatorial Guinea
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South Africa: Radebe promises REIPPP fifth round once IRP is in place
Energy minister Jeff Radebe has said preparations for a fifth round of renewable energy procurement are going ahead and a launch is expected once the new Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is completed. The draft IRP was released on 27 August, and a final version will be...
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South Africa
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Leap of faith from donors as Zambia’s Get FiT moves ahead
The Get FiT secretariat in Zambia issued a request for proposals (RfP) for the procurement of 100MW solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity on 31 August and bids are due by 29 November. The Get FiT programme is being jointly developed and implemented by the Ministry of Energy and...
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Zambia
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Hopes of a sea change in Tanzania as government returns to talks
Talks are under way between the Tanzanian government and Symbion Power to settle a dispute that erupted in 2016 after the government claimed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) signed in December 2015 for Symbion’s 112MW Ubungo gas power plant was not valid. The first...
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Tanzania
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South Sudan resumes production from blocks 1, 2 and 4
The Toma South field on blocks 1, 2 and 4 resumed production on 25 August at an initial 3,000 b/d, petroleum ministry director-general Awow Daniel Chuang told African Energy. This has now risen to 7,000 b/d and will reach 10,000 b/d when renovation work is completed. Toma...
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South Sudan
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Segas arbitration award reopens possibility of Egypt gas exports
The $2bn award in favour of Unión Fenosa Gas (UFG) made by the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes at the end of August means that liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the Segas terminal at Damietta could resume very soon. The Spanish...
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Egypt
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FCPA fines for Libyan bribe
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on 27 August that Legg Mason Inc must pay a criminal penalty of $32.6m to resolve a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violation in a scheme to bribe Libyan officials, who in 2004-10 awarded the Maryland-based...
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Libya
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African leaders line up to acknowledge China’s status
It is a measure of its rise to prominence that China is the prism through which other nations now define their relations with Africa. This is the product of decades of energetic diplomacy and China’s willingness to provide unprecedented levels of finance, infrastructure...
Africa
Land reform and social justice define politics in southern Africa
The confirmation by Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s 30 July election victory was above board brushed aside opposition MDC Alliance complaints, along with growing international scepticism about the hotly disputed poll. Violent scenes in...
Southern Africa
Regional: Sovereign borrowing attracts funds despite debt concerns
Lenders have appetite for Africa’s more attractive sovereign credits, including fashionable francophone markets Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal. When in March Senegal raised $2.2bn in a eurobond issue, its Ministry of Finance received $10.3bn-worth of orders for the euro/dollar-...
Africa
Personal politics turned to the good as Ethiopia basks in Abiy effect
Personalities remain a key factor in shaping a continent trying to emerge from lost decades of ‘big man’ politics. While the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) made much of efforts to create a post-conflict ‘developmental state’ in the last two...
Ethiopia
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04 October 2018 to 05 October 2018
Equatorial Guinea Gas Summit & Exhibition
The Equatorial Guinea Gas Summit, taking place 4 & 5 October in Malabo will be of part of...
Sipopo Conferece Centre, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
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The Mining Show
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