Public enterprises minister Lynne Brown announced late on 12 June that she had accepted the resignation of Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane as chairman of Eskom. “I would like to thank Dr Ngubane for his contribution to turning Eskom around since the load-shedding days of 2014-15...

Eni and its partners announced a final investment decision on 1 June for the $8bn Coral South floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) development offshore northern Mozambique.All the drilling, construction and installation contracts for the production facilities were signed at...

GE Power Services has signed a multi-year service agreement with Songas to upgrade equipment at the 190MW Ubungo gas-fired power plant in Dar es Salaam. Under the terms of the deal, which was announced on 1 June, GE will upgrade three of the plant’s four LM6000 gas turbines...

Australia’s Far plans a well at the end of 2018 on offshore Block A2. Managing director Cath Norman told ITE Group’s Africa Independents Forum on 24 May that the company had identified an extension of the SNE shelf edge trend and planned a well on the Sama prospect, targeting...

The Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons has announced a binding agreement with the OneLNG joint venture to commercialise gas from Noble Energy’s blocks O and I. OneLNG, a joint venture between Golar LNG and Schlumberger, will commit funding to explore the technical and...