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A $220m US government grant for a Louisiana graphite facility, which sources its ore in Mozambique, shows how competition for African graphite is heating up in a new ‘great game’ to secure strategically vital transition minerals. Insecurity and difficult labour relations in Mozambique pose challenges, but serious money is also pouring into Tanzanian and Madagascan developments.

Tunisia’s EPPM Group expect to start construction of offshore methane gas facilities and a 30MW gas conversion power plant on the DR Congo lake shore in early 2023. EPPM says it is in talks with lenders for a financial close that will finally allow the much-anticipated project to go ahead.

Updated in January 2023 this map package consists of three individual maps focused on Nigeria's oil and gas sector. The first map provides an overview of oil blocks and hydrocarbons infrastructure across the country, including oil, gas and products pipelines. The second and third maps focus on the Niger Delta onshore and offshore. The first of these shows the location of fields, pipelines and associated infrastructure such as tanker terminals, refineries, gas processing plants and LNG facilities. The third map focused on the same region, shows blocks by type – open, oil prospecting licence (OPL), oil mining licence (OML) and marginal field areas. Block names and operators are shown. The map is available as a PDF file using eps graphics, meaning that there is no loss of resolution as the file is enlarged.  

This map examines the Rovuma Basin conflict zone with the map split into two - one part showing security incidents and conflict flash points in Mozambique, while the other part shows the location of gas fields and associated infrastructure (such as pipelines and proposed LNG facilities)in southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique. The map is available as a PDF file using eps graphics, meaning that there is no loss of resolution as the file is enlarged.

Published March 2022, this map shows actual and planned electricity interconnections between North Africa and Southern Europe. The map is presented as a PDF file using eps graphics, meaning that there is no loss of resolution as the file is enlarged.

A hike in tariffs from 1 September is meant to put utility services on a more sustainable footing, but the below-inflation rise will not solve the power sector’s many problems. Questions continue to be asked about the fate of funds raised in 2020 to refinance money owned to independent power producers (IPPs) and, with capital markets closed, Ghana’s government is now talking to the International Monetary Fund about yet another support programme, writes Jon Marks with Adaora Elemide and Marc Howard.

Algeria’s ability to supply more gas has become a strategic priority since its close ally Russia invaded Ukraine. But while Algiers claims a recent series of supply deals and co-operation agreements points to its critical role in meeting surging demand  in Europe, some things are not changing as quickly at state company Sonatrach as the positive headlines suggest, write James Gavin and Jon Marks, with additional reporting by Our Algiers Correspondent and John Hamilton.

Following an explosive report alleging widespread fraud at one of India’s largest conglomerates the share price of Adani Group companies plummeted on the Indian stock exchange, in an affair that could yet have implications for a proposed 10GW renewable power and green hydrogen project in Morocco.

A wind of change is blowing through Seeg, whose electricity and water activities are to be split into two companies under a new chief executive, but the Gabonese state utility remains dogged by structural problems, including large debts owed by state entities and under-investment in the grid – all of which makes Seeg’s potential privatisation a huge challenge.

A huge increase in generation capacity indicates that the long-sought boom in renewable generation has materialised, as African grids are set to add 15GW of solar, 9GW of wind and 14GW of hydroelectric power by 2025, according to the African Energy Live Data platform’s latest analysis.

The global take-off of corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) is driving an evolution in contracts across the supply chain as companies push to achieve environmental, social and governance (ESG) targets, writes Dan Marks.

Nigeria’s indigenous gas company has declared force majeure as floods disrupt virtually all of its feedgas supplies in the Niger Delta region. Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) is currently reviewing the extent of the disruption with its suppliers. At least 30 states have been hit by severe flooding with several communities completely submerged.

London’s High Court ruled that JP Morgan did not breach fiduciary rules when it transferred funds stemming from the sale of the controversial oil production licence (OPL) 245. The judgement reveals further details of graft in the long-running saga, as Justice Cockerill found that the original award of the licence was probably corrupt and ex-oil minister Dan Etete had benefitted financially from it. Meanwhile, 25 years after it was first awarded, other disputes continue over the highly prospective OPL 245.

Regulator Nerc began ‘a phased activation’ of power purchase agreements on 1 July, in another attempt to meet its 5,000MW electricity target. Officials believe the move can rebalance an industry in crisis, but stakeholders are unsure if the target is achievable and the public is wary of gimmicks ahead of elections in 2023, writes Adaora Elemide in Abuja, with Jon Marks in Brussels.

After a difficult few years for big-ticket hydroelectric power (HEP) projects, there are signs of a new urgency in getting major schemes off the drawing board and onto the grid. African Energy Live Data records show 37.4GW of installed HEP capacity from 453 mainly on-grid projects, with another 15.8GW under construction across 52 schemes. The good news for HEP proponents is that an average of 4.2GW/yr of new capacity will be added in 2022-27, according to analysis of the Live Data pipeline – meaning 25.25GW more HEP over the next five years, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa.