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Afentra has secured official approval for the acquisition of stakes in two offshore blocks from the state-owned oil company Sonangol. The UK independent said it was now working with Sonangol to finalise the formal completion of the deal.

Canada’s Tantalex Lithium Resources has concluded a lithium marketing offtake agreement with Glencore and secured $5m in convertible loans from the Swiss commodities giant.

Global Atomic Corporation (GAC), developer of the greenfield Dasa uranium mine, said on 10 November the United States government had “expressed support for project financing to proceed”.

The utilities of the four-nation Organisation for the Development of the Gambia River (L’Organisation pour la mise en Valeur du Fleuve Gambie, OMVG) have signed a transmission service agreement for the 1,677km ‘Loop’ high-voltage power transmission line. The $685m development comprises 4,000 pylons and 15 substations and interconnects the grids of Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal. As its name suggests, the 225kV, double-circuit line forms a circular network spanning the four countries.

South Africa’s state power utility Eskom has launched the Hex battery energy storage system (Bess) at Worcester in the Western Cape’s Breede Valley, after more than a year of construction work. The facility is the first to be finished under phase one of Eskom’s Bess scheme announced in July 2022.

The 1,982km Niger-Benin export pipeline (NBEP) has been nominally commissioned by Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, although in reality it will be some months before any crude oil is exported along the route.

Tullow has agreed a $400m, five-year debt facility with commodities trader Glencore Energy, giving the UK indie a financial boost. The two sides have also agreed two oil marketing and offtake contracts, which will run concurrently with the debt agreement.

Aymen Benabderrahmane has been replaced as prime minister by President Abdelmajid Tebboune’s chief of staff (since March) Nadir Larbaoui.

Dodoma and Kampala have signed a bilateral agreement to jointly fund a feasibility study for a new pipeline to send gas from southern Tanzania to Uganda.

A group of multinational investors led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have provided finance for the development of the 35MW Kinguélé Aval hydroelectric power plant in Gabon’s Estuaire region.

First discovered in 1974, the offshore Kudu gas field could provide substantial gas-to-power capacity for Namibia’s domestic market and for export to South Africa. Officials say it will proceed independently of recent massive Orange Basin discoveries further south, but industry observers are sceptical of the electricity export plans, citing the lack of transmission infrastructure with South Africa, write Our Namibia Correspondent and Marc Howard.

Construction work has began on the Pomona waste-to-energy project, with a ground-breaking event attended by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The project was approved by cabinet in February 2022, but construction has been delayed by the city council’s failure to raise the required funds and complaints from the public.

The latest financial results issued by South Africa’s state-owned utility Eskom show the dire situation of the country’s electricity supply industry (ESI) is not improving.

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.

Zambian state-owned utility Zesco has signed a system operations agreement with GreenCo Power Services allowing the energy trader to sell power from the Ilute solar PV plant to the Southern African Power Pool (Sapp) market.