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African governments are united in calling for a better deal from the new global round of climate talks in Copenhagen.

Egypt | Ethiopia | South Africa
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Economic recovery has given a new impetus to the long-mooted Batoka Gorge hydro project on the Zambezi River, writes Chiwoyu Sinyangwe in Lusaka

Zambia | Zimbabwe
Issue 211 - 21 June 2011

Tullow share offer

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On 13 June, Tullow announced it had opened its offer for 4m shares to be listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) at an offer price of 31 cedis ($20)/share (AE 210/19).

Ghana
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As Tanzania’s energy crisis deepens, US developer Symbion Power has taken over the 120MW Ubungo power plant, which has been idle for nearly three years. Ubungo was previously owned by Dowans Holding, whose controversial contract was terminated in August 2008.

Tanzania
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Local community groups have reached agreement with the developers of the Kinangop wind park in the Rift Valley following the latest protests over compensation and health risks. Since construction of the 60.8MW project began in July last year, Kinangop’s development has been dogged by protests from local people who say they were not properly consulted over the project development and that compensation provisions are insufficient.

Kenya
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Years of relying on imported power have left Botswana unprepared to meet demand through its own-build programme, but the recruitment of advisors for the troubled Morupule B, a tender for 600MW of private generation capacity and calls for an international partner to take control of the state power utility suggest Gaborone is getting to grips with the situation, writes Dan Marks. While the Southern African Power Pool and its biggest supplier, South Africa, have failed to provide sufficient electricity to make up supply gaps, Botswana has struggled to raise its domestic generation capacity. Another supply crunch is looming: South Africa’s Eskom, which generated 68% of the electricity consumed in Botswana in 2011, signed a much-reduced agreement in January to supply 100MW of firm capacity and another 200MW on a non-firm basis until 31 July.

Botswana
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Presidential advisor Rilwanu Lukman used CWC Associates' Nigeria Oil & Gas Conference 2008 to set out his stall for the reforms the Yar'Adua administration is piloting through the political system - while not revealing all the goodies he is trying to sell Nigeria and the global industry, as outlined in the draft programme seen by African Energy and reported in.

Nigeria
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Despite a continuing stand-off over the sharing of oil facilities and future of oil-producing blocks along the border, the Government of Southern Sudan is pressing ahead with plans to develop its oil sector. South Sudan’s oil sector is both the most critical and the most contentious element of its economic future. According to BP’s latest statistical review of world energy, Sudan produced an average 490,000 b/d in 2009, and at year-end had proven reserves of 6.7bn bbls. An estimated 75% of known oil reserves are in South Sudan,

Sudan
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Growth in sub-Saharan Africa remains strong, and with a new study showing that energy infrastructure remains among the region’s most urgent needs, a new generation of major public and privately-funded investments is expected to emerge.

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By the end of 2018, natural gas and dual fuel plants using gas will have increased from 40% of installed capacity in 2010 to nearly 48%, according to the new African Energy Data Book. The increase in gas usage has often been at the expense of coal plants, which have decreased as a proportion of total generation from 29% to 20% since 2010, although coal capacity has grown by 13% over the same period. Use of liquid fuels has also decreased.There is a clear need and appetite for gas-fired power in Africa.

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Senior officials and some notable international investors are optimistic that Egypt’s upstream sector is back on track, but this does not mean that some casualties have not been left by the wayside. The announcement of a new licensing round and the prospect of others later this year is the latest indication of the opportunities now on offer. Field developments are under way on and offshore, but Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) has not paid back arrears owed to international oil companies (IOCs) as quickly as it said it would, and a number of IOCs have suffered because of this.

Egypt
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The authorities in charge of Libya’s oil and gas sector are contemplating a radical shift to private financing of major upstream and downstream developments to get around budget constraints which are putting many essential projects out of reach. Under the former regime of late leader Muammar Qadhafi, the idea of using domestic or international finance to back National Oil Corporation (NOC) projects was unthinkable. Even now, the idea may be opposed by newly formed trade unions or armed groups representing local interests who continue to promote themselves under the banner of ‘revolutionary’ forces. However, a well-attended two-day seminar on sources and methods of financing and prospects for investment in the oil and gas sector, held by NOC in Tripoli on 14-15 May, showed the corporation was serious about bringing in outside money.

Libya
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New group managing director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Andrew Laah Yakubu was the choice of his sacked predecessor Austen Oniwon. Oniwon is close to petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, and appears to have been sacrificed to take the heat off Madueke and other senior officials who might otherwise carry the can for the fuel subsidy scandal.

Nigeria
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Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has begun prequalification of consultants for an appraisal of the third phase of the Danish International Development Agency-funded Danish Energy Partnership Programme, which covers China, Mexico, South Africa and Vietnam. The programme will run from July 2020 to June 2025 with a total budget of up to DKK250m ($37m). It aims to support the countries in developing policies for achieving their national determined contribution to the Paris Agreement on climate change.

South Africa
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CI-Energies on 20 March awarded seven contracts to electrify 350 locations in Côte d’Ivoire. The contracts are being financed by the French Development Agency. Morocco’s Fabrilec, part of MMK group, and Ivorian consultancy SNE were awarded the $4.67m Lot 1 contract to electrify 42 localities in Gbêkê region as well as the $8.03m Lot 3 contract to connect 37 locations in Iffou region, 14 in Mé, four in Abidjan and one in Sud-Comoé.

Côte d'Ivoire