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Issue 202 - 04 February 2011

Engen buys Chevron Tanzania assets

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South Africa-based Engen Petroleum formally acquired Chevron’s interests in Tanzania on 1 February, under one of seven agreements to take over downstream interests in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands.

Tanzania | Réunion
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The award of a consultancy contract for Kenya Pipeline Company’s new Mombasa-Nairobi products pipeline is welcome news as a range of problems hamper efforts to reduce the region’s fuel supply bottlenecks, writes Kimemia Mugo in Nairobi

Kenya
Issue 188 - 12 June 2010

Government studies refinery options

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The Ugandan government is carrying out a study to determine the best size for a planned refinery to process crude from Lake Albert. The study, due for completion in the next month or so, will consider the regional market, and the type and size of refinery that would make commercial and economic sense.

Uganda
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The government of Niger has announced a framework agreement with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) for a $4bn export pipeline to transport crude oil to the international market. Petroleum minister Foumakoye Gado, who secured the agreement at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing in early September, told the daily Le Sahel that the pipeline would be developed as a public-private partnership, with CNPC recouping its investment through crude sales.

Niger
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The government is keen to develop oil and gas production to help meet its 10% annual GDP growth target as the economy recovers from a decade of stagnation and conflict, but efforts to push down gas tariffs and a border dispute affecting the most attractive offshore acreage complicate the picture for investors, writes Thalia Griffiths

Côte d'Ivoire
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Afren affiliate Gasol has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Azerbaijan’s Socar Trading SA (STSA) in relation to its proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) import project in Benin. STSA will supply the LNG for the project and assist Gasol with the provision of a floating gas storage and regasification vessel in Cotonou harbour.

Ghana | Benin | Togo
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The GDF-Suez and Sonatrach joint venture Groupement TouatGaz, which is developing the Touat gas field in south-west Algeria, is expected to choose Spanish engineering company Técnicas Reunidas to carry out the project. Once confirmed, this will mark a significant milestone in the much-delayed process of bringing a series of complex gas discoveries in this region to production. Total, Repsol and Statoil also plan to develop gas fields in this area, but negotiations on commerciality have dragged on for years, while Sonatrach has only recently committed to build the necessary pipeline.

Algeria
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On 27 July, Sudan’s oil ministry informed oil companies that it had put back the scheduled date for shutting down the oil export pipelines from 7 August to 22 August. The decision followed a request from African Union (AU) mediator Thabo Mbeki and the Chinese government to allow more time for negotiations between Juba and Khartoum. South Sudan only resumed oil production in April after a 15-month closure of the pipeline network, and the extension is the latest in a series of twists and turns that have made the outcome of negotiations difficult to read.

South Sudan | Sudan
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In spite of a sharp reversal in the oil market over the past nine months, the strategies for buying and selling Libyan crude oil have changed little.

Libya
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State power utility NamPower has prequalified 15 companies for a contract to build an 800MW combined-cycle power plant at Oranjemund using gas from the offshore Kudu field. The engineering, procurement and construction contract, which the Ministry of Mines and Energy estimates will cost around $200m, is for a turnkey project to offtake all the Kudu field’s projected production.

Namibia
Issue 240 - 05 October 2012

Libya: Wintershall to build pipeline

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Germany’s Wintershall has announced plans to build a new pipeline to connect oil production from its Block C96 and the Afoora oil field operated by Arabian Gulf Oil Company (Agoco), with the Amal field.

Libya
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With the first attempt at privatisation ending in disarray and the Bureau for Private Enterprises facing reorganisation, prospects look bleak for the divestment of Nigeria’s oil refineries, seen as essential to end chronic fuel shortages. On the plus side, a number of new projects are on the table, and although by no means all will see the light of day a few are making real progress, writes Leonard Lawal in Lagos.

Nigeria
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AOG affiliate PetroJetty has given Dutch engineering company BAM International and its South African joint venture partner Stefanutti Stocks a contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of a petroleum jetty at the Kissy Oil Terminal in Freetown. PetroJetty is the local affiliate of trading and downstream company Oryx Energies. The new jetty will provide a key import and export facility for the country, and a modern export base for ethanol from the Addax Bioenergy bioethanol project at Makeni.

Sierra Leone
Issue 275 - 15 April 2014

Angola: ALNG at 50 percent capacity

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Chevron says the Angola Liquefied Natural Gas (ALNG) plant is running at around 50 percent capacity and has shipped three LNG and two liquefied petroleum gas cargoes so far this year. Chevron said the variable composition of the plant’s associated gas supply had affected its initial performance. The company said in its annual report that it expected the plant to remain at about 50% capacity until permanent modifications could be completed in 2015, allowing ALNG to consistently produce at its full capacity of 180,000 boe/d.

Angola
Issue 198 - 19 November 2010

Pipeline, refinery in construction

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China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is due to start production by end-2011 from the Agadem field in eastern Niger. Ousseini Boureima of the Mines and Energy Ministry told Global Pacific & Partners' Africa Upstream conference

Niger