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The 125,000 b/d Warri refinery in Delta State is once again processing crude oil, following a 26-month rehabilitation project carried out by South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering & Contracting. It comes a month after the restart of the 60,000 b/d Port Harcourt refinery in Rivers State.

Nigeria
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Construction work has started on the Lower Maguduza hydroelectric power plant in central Eswatini, the country’s first utility-scale, privately financed renewable IPP. The plant is expected to boost the government’s efforts to displace costly power imports.

eSwatini (Swaziland)
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Published January 2025, this graphic collects together six small maps showing projects under South Africa's battery energy storage IPP procurement (BESIPPP) programme windows, Eskom battery energy storage projects and the 7th bid window of the renewable energy IPP procurement (REIPPP) programme. A further map shows off-grid and non-grid-contracted solar PV installations made between Dec 2022 and Dec 2024.

South Africa
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Eight projects under the second round of South Africa’s battery energy storage independent power producer (Besippp) programme have been awarded, with Mulilo awarded five, Amea Power two and EDF one. With construction underway at most of the projects in the first window, and the third window bids under review, Pretoria is making important inroads in integrating battery energy storage systems into its energy mix, writes Tonderayi Mukeredzi.

South Africa
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There has been progress at two key liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in central Africa in the opening weeks of the year, with advances underway in both Gabon and Republic of Congo (RoC).

Congo Brazzaville | Gabon
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A long-awaited tender to install the midstream network that will carry gas from Senegal’s offshore fields to power plants and industrial offtakers is expected to be launched soon.

Senegal
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Regional utility Zanzibar Electricity Corporation has secured funding for what could be the semi-autonomous region’s first solar PV plant.

Tanzania
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Blended finance vehicle the Emerging Africa & Asia Infrastructure Fund has committed $29m to Côte d’Ivoire’s largest-ever solar power project. The project is one of several awarded under a new national IPP framework, as Abidjan looks to greater on-grid renewable capacity and increased imports from new interconnections to meet sharply rising electricity demand.

Côte d'Ivoire
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The Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa reservoir is just 20% full, after a prolonged drought. Low water levels threaten to further reduce generation output at the 2.1GW hydroelectric plant, which supplies over 1GW to neighbouring South Africa and additional output to other Southern African Power Pool (Sapp) countries including Zimbabwe and, soon, Malawi.

Mozambique | Malawi | Zambia | Zimbabwe | South Africa
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Oslo-listed BW Energy has reported record production at its offshore Dussafu licence in Gabon in Q4 2024, helped by the completion of a programme to replace faulty electric submersible pumps and more wells being brought online.

Gabon
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The restart of crude deliveries via the Petrodar pipeline in January was an important moment for South Sudan’s embattled economy and a sign of improved relations between Juba and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) based in Port Sudan. However, the trade continues to be at risk from Sudan’s civil war, as are the SAF’s hopes of attracting Russian companies to invest in its upstream sector, writes James Gavin.

South Sudan | Sudan
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Kenya-based PowerGen has secured funds to develop a 120MW portfolio of commercial and industrial (C&I) and off/metro-grid renewable power projects, with an initial focus on projects in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

DR Congo | Sierra Leone | Nigeria
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For Bola Tinubu, as for previous Nigerian presidents, one measure of success at overcoming the graft and mismanagement that have undermined the economy for decades will be his ability to halt systemic oil theft in the Niger Delta. Tinubu’s administration and military chiefs are setting drones and other technology to work, but whether they can overcome the usual vested interests to harness desperately needed higher revenue flows and investment remains to be seen.

Nigeria
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With Sudan’s civil war impeding Juba’s oil exports – and vital hard currency revenues – the idea of developing a new oil pipeline from South Sudan to Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast is again drawing attention. Such a link would reduce Juba’s dependence on its northern neighbour, but the funding challenges that have stymied similar proposals in the past will be hard to overcome.

Kenya | South Sudan
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Operator Kosmos Energy and the state-owned Petrosen are courting potential partners for the offshore Y-T play, long earmarked to provide feedstock for Senegal’s new gas-to-power capacity and also now expected to produce LNG for export. The development concept is being honed and Petrosen is bullish that Y-T’s reserves will exceed expectations, writes Waly Dione Faye in Dakar.

Senegal