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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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Cairo is pressing on with the implementation of its existing electricity supply industry (ESI) strategy in the face of severe headwinds. Some major reforms, including energy sector liberalisation, are certain to be delayed, but the authorities continue to drive big ticket projects forward – and to pile on new ones – while striving to keep international investors on-side in a highly precarious financial situation.

Egypt
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Ivanhoe Mines has opted for commercial and industrial (C&I) supply from an independent power producer (IPP) for its Platreef project in Limpopo province, becoming the latest large South African offtaker to respond in this way to the woeful performance of utility Eskom.

South Africa
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Disasters in Morocco and then Libya in the first half of September – the first a natural disaster, the second largely the product of human mismanagement – have put renewed pressure on the authorities in both countries.

Libya | Morocco
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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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Revised in September 2023, this map provides a detailed view of the power sector in DR Congo. The locations of power generation facilities that are operating, under construction or planned are shown by type – including liquid fuels, natural gas, coal, hybrid, hydroelectricity, solar PV and methane. Generation sites are marked with different sized circles to show sites of 1-9MW, 10-99MW, 100-499MW and 500MW and above. An inset shows the Inga hydroelectric power (HEP) projects in detail, with notes. Two other small insets show in greater detail Kinshasa and the region to the north east and the area south of Lake Kivu. A further inset illustrates proposals for  a 400kV transmission network. A small chart shows installed, available and annual peak power capacity over the period 2020-2022. Existing and future transmission and distribution lines are shown ranging from 132kV and under to 500kV+. Actual and planned cross-border interconnectors are also shown including lines to Angola, Congo B, Tanzania and Zambia. Power generation data was drawn from our African Energy Live Data platform, which contains project level detail on power plants and projects across Africa. The map is presented as a PDF file using eps graphics, meaning that there is no loss of resolution as the file is enlarged.  

DR Congo
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The issue leads with Egypt, where severe rolling power outages throughout the summer have left many wondering how the electricity supply industry (ESI) could fail, given the state has spent billions of dollars commissioning sufficient generation capacity for a reserve margin that is approximately double the peak load. African Energy focuses on DR Congo where the are pockets of progress – with commercial operators and development finance institutions supporting a range of projects – but the environment remains challenging with an uncertain election looming in December. African Energy also looks at the implications of the trial of two former senior Lundin Energy executives – accused of complicity in war crimes in Sudan two decades ago – which began in Stockholm in early September. Power coverage leads with Kenya where the  AfDB and Korea Eximbank have agreed to provide finance for the national electricity grid system and resolve transmission gaps. There is also an update on South Africa, where trading and import/export licences have now been granted for the new National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA). Oil and gas coverage leads with Equatorial Guinea, which is seeing more dynamism in its upstream oil and gas sector, with independents planning drilling programmes across a number of blocks. The African Energy View reflects on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd), where filling was completed in mid-September. The Abiy government believes power now available could enable a wave of economic development in heavily-indebted Ethiopia, but investors will be wary of continued conflict.

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Trading in Afentra’s shares resumed on 18 September, as the London AIM-listed company pushed on with plans to expand its interests in the Group Sonangol-operated shallow-water blocks 3/05 and 3/05A.

Angola
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Nigeria’s Dangote refinery will receive its first crude cargo by the start of October and should be producing up to 370,000 b/d of diesel and jet fuel later that month, according to comments by group executive director Devakumar Edwin to S&P Global Commodity Insights published on 18 September.

Nigeria
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Zanzibar Electricity Corporation (ZEC) has requested bids for two lots of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) transmission works on Unguja island, as part of the Zanzibar Energy Sector Transformation and Access Project.

Tanzania
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed the little-known Edgar Moyo as his energy and power development minister in a new, bloated cabinet – in which the re-elected president stirred up a storm by naming his son David Kudakwashe Mnangagwa (Kuda) as deputy finance minister and his nephew Tongai Mnangagwa as deputy tourism and hospitality minister.

Zimbabwe
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Gambia’s National Water and Electricity Company (Nawec) has requested bids for substation and low voltage (LV) line works as part of the Gambia Electricity System Reinforcement and Expansion (Gesrp) project.

Gambia
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Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines is expanding its use of hydroelectric power (HEP) wheeled across state utility Société Nationale d’Electricité (Snel)’s grid to support its mining activities in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Haut-Katanga province, which include the world-scale Kamoa-Kakula copper mine.

DR Congo
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has named Olayemi Cardoso to head the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Cardoso was Lagos state’s economic planning and budget commissioner from 1999 until 2005, when Tinubu was governor. He is the latest member of that team to be appointed to high office. Cardaso fills the vacancy left by Godwin Emefiele’s suspension and arrest in June, as the ex-governor was closely linked to disastrous policies enacted by outgoing president Muhammadu Buhari’s government.

Nigeria
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South Africa’s EPCM Holdings has been asked to carry out technical and commercial assessments on two possible routes for piping gas from the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) and Bir Allah offshore fields, with a view to promoting industrialisation and supplying gas-to-power projects in Mauritania.

Mauritania | Senegal