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Slow progress at some of sub-Saharan Africa’s most high-profile LNG developments come as exporters from other parts of the world race to sign new long-term deals with buyers from Asia and Europe. The risk for African producers is that they could miss out on lucrative opportunities, costing governments large amounts in lost foreign earnings, writes Marc Howard*.

Mozambique | Egypt | Mauritania | Algeria | Tanzania | Morocco | Senegal
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Algeria is squeezing whatever gas it can out of the system for export and Morocco is looking at different options for its smaller reserves, but Libya and Egypt face bigger challenges still, with the bare minimum export LNG leaving Egyptian terminals this year.

Egypt | Libya | Algeria | Morocco
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Italian major Eni has completed its acquisition of assets from Norway’s Neptune Energy Group, in a transaction that brings with it natural gas assets in Algeria, Egypt, Europe and the Far East.

Algeria
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London-listed independent Harbour Energy has announced a $11.2bn cash, debt and share deal to acquire Wintershall Dea’s assets in Algeria, Egypt, Libya and five other countries. The reverse takeover is complicated by the involvement of Russian-linked investors

Egypt | Libya | Algeria
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The final COP28 communiqué included – for the first time – a commitment to eventually phase out fossil fuels, going beyond previous declarations that focused on coal. However, there are few signs that Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) members and their Opec+ allies, led by Russia, have any intention of allowing their core source of revenues to disappear anytime soon. So what can we learn from recent statements by oil producers – including Opec+’s quota commitments at a meeting on 30 November – and from leaks and comments made during COP28?

Angola | Nigeria | Libya | Congo Brazzaville | Algeria
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Following the recent dismissal of Sonatrach chief executive Toufik Hakkar, a further eight vice-presidents have now been dismissed from the national oil company, pointing to wider tensions within the Algiers establishment, writes Our Algiers Corresondent.

Algeria
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State utility Société Nationale de l’Electricité et du Gaz’s Sonelgaz-Energies Renouvelables (S-EnR) has announced the winning bids for its 2GW solar photovoltaic project. Once delivered, the project would quadruple S-EnR’s installed solar capacity. Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune has told Sonelgaz to install 15GW of renewable energy by 2030, of which the 2GW tender is the first phase.

Algeria
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Sonelgaz-Energies Renouvelables (S-EnR), the renewables arm of state-owned utility Société Nationale de l'Electricité et du Gaz (Sonelgaz) has opened financial bids for its much-anticipated project to install 2GW of solar power.

Algeria
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Toufik Hakkar was removed from his position as president director-general (PDG) of Sonatrach on 2 October, as President Abdelmadjid Tebboune appointed yet another official who has had decades of jobs in and around the national oil company, Rachid Hachichi, for a second stint in the job. 

Algeria
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National oil company Sonatrach has started natural gas production at three Gourar Basin fields, as part of the second phase of its South West Gas Project (SWGP).

Algeria
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The prospects for giga-scale renewable power projects in North Africa have never been better, leveraging off export-led green hydrogen projects and the advantages of adding cheap non-emitting capacity to already well-developed grids. But the latest figures from African Energy Live Data show that, over the next five years, North Africa will instead pour ever more natural gas into a growing fleet of open cycle plants, while relatively few wind and solar projects have firm completion dates.

Egypt | Libya | Algeria | Morocco | Tunisia
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State gas and power company Sonelgaz’s renewable energy arm is leading Algeria’s latest attempt to develop a major solar PV project, with plans now for 2GW of capacity to be installed at sites in the Sahara and High Plateaux to launch a 15GW initiative.

Algeria
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Algerian state giant Sonatrach has been courting international oil companies to capitalise on the potential to ramp up deliveries to Europe, but African Energy’s soundings suggest there are plenty of reasons for caution, despite the improved investment climate since hydrocarbons sector reforms were unveiled.

Algeria
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The Société Algérienne des Energies Renouvelables (Algerian Renewable Energy Company, or Shaems) joint venture of state giants Sonatrach and Sonelgaz may be preparing soon to finally move ahead with the tender for international and local investors to supply 1GW of solar power.

Algeria
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Adding to the welter of joint schemes discussed during Italian head of government Giorgia Meloni’s 23 January visit to Algiers was the potential revival of the Galsi pipeline. The ‘Gazoduc Algérie-Sardaigne-Italie’ project was first proposed in 2000 to carry 8 bcm/yr from Koudiet Draouche to Sardinia and on to Piombo and the mainland.

Algeria