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Reports of a surprise deal by the government to acquire Petronas’s oil and gas portfolio in partnership with a little-known American outfit have reinforced concerns about South Sudan’s governance. Juba has backtracked on its initial claims about a $3bn oil and infrastructure deal that would have replaced the previously announced Petronas-Savannah deal, but investors are likely to be ever more nervous, writes James Gavin.

South Sudan
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Former Lundin Energy executives denied charges of any complicity in Sudanese atrocities as their trial opened in early September, with hearings in the Stockholm District Court that fit into a growing trend for prosecutors to target companies and senior personnel for war crimes and similar outrages, no matter when they were committed, writes Chris Stephen in Stockholm.

South Sudan | Sudan
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Kampala-headquartered engineering, procurement and construction contractor Aptech has completed a 14MWp extension for Ezra Group of Companies’ solar-thermal plant in Kondokoro, east of Juba, bringing its total solar output to 42GWh/yr.

South Sudan
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South Sudan is facing a dilemma about how it keeps its oil and gas flowing at a time when its export route via Sudan is at risk from a conflict  that has fanned out well beyond Khartoum.

South Sudan
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The Cygnum Capital-managed Facility for Energy Inclusion has advanced a $30m loan to Equator Energy to help the Nairobi-headquartered C&I developer grow its business across Africa.

Kenya | Gambia | Somalia | South Sudan | Uganda | Zimbabwe
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Petronas has shed some of its most significant African assets, as the Malaysian NOC revises its global portfolio to focus on higher grade assets outside the continent. However, its exit from Africa has added to an already complicated situation in Chad, writes James Gavin.

Egypt | South Sudan
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UK independent Savannah Energy is moving forward with a $1.25bn plan to acquire a string of upstream assets in South Sudan from Malaysia’s Petronas – a rare case of an IOC stepping into one of Africa’s most challenging political and economic environments, writes James Gavin.

South Sudan
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South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s choice of defence minister has underlined the persistent factional and communal conflicts that undermine the country’s efforts to improve its governance and focus on developmental issues.

South Sudan
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The London AIM-listed independent Savannah Energy has offered to pay some $1.25bn to take over Petronas’s assets in South Sudan, but conditions on the ground remain challenging for exploration and production firms seeking to enter the upstream in Africa’s troubled newest state, writes James Gavin.

South Sudan
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Kampala-headquartered Aptech Africa has commissioned a 12MWp solar PV plant in Juba for Ezra Construction & Development Group. The commissioning of the plant has quintupled South Sudan’s installed solar capacity, which was previous just 3MWp.

South Sudan
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Glencore received the ‘highest ever fines and costs ordered in a British corporate criminal conviction’, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office said after a London court found the resources giant guilty of graft – in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria – and of ‘failures to prevent bribery’ in Equatorial Guinea and South Sudan in 2011-14. Chastened once more after its practises were reported in eye-watering legal detail, Glencore has embarked on “an extensive programme of corporate reform”.

Cameroon | South Sudan | Nigeria | Equatorial Guinea | Côte d'Ivoire
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South Sudan has warned it could quit the Opec+ grouping if it is not allowed to hike crude production to 230,000 b/d by 2024, an increase of around 70,000 b/d on current output.

South Sudan
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Khartoum is prepared to offer new oil exploration and production blocks to Moscow-headquartered Zarubezhneft, Sudanese Oil Production Department director Eltahir Mohammed told Russia’s Interfax news agency on 19 August.

South Sudan | Sudan
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UK-based climate fund manager Camco Clean Energy has partnered with Energy Peace Partners (EPP) to manage the Peace Renewable Energy Credit (P-Rec) Aggregation Fund.

Somalia | DR Congo | South Sudan | Chad | Uganda
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International oil companies in South Sudan will come under increased pressure to hire more locals in the years ahead, according to comments from South Sudan Ministry of Petroleum undersecretary Awow Daniel Chuang.

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