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State comany Société Nationale d’Electricité (Snel) and India’s Kalpataru have signed a construction contract for a second high-voltage transmission line from the Inga dam to Kinshasa

Germany’s E.ON Ruhrgas has made a gas condensate discovery at its Rhourde Yacoub (Block 406a) perimeter in the Berkine Basin

Abroad, it is often forgotten that Tunisia is a significant gas producer. While President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's government has been indefatigable - and successful - in its efforts to attract a range of manufacturing and services sector investment, BG Group's offshore gas developments remain Tunisia's single biggest industrial investment, feeding the domestic market. But even though the country is traversed

Tideland Signal has supplied a solar-powered rotating beacon kit to the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority to automate the historic lighthouse at Jamestown, Accra.

The Algesco joint venture of GE Oil & Gas with state companies Sonatrach and Sonelgaz has opened a new service centre at Boufarik, 35km from Algiers

Houston-based Hyperdynamics Corporation has raised $30m through a private placement with US investment management firm BlackRock.

Former Artumas Group executives Ian Horswill and Jerry Brix have reappeared as president and chief operating officer respectively of a new company.

UK-based clean technology promoter Blue Sphere Corporation has signed an agreement for the installation of a gas collection system and flare, including the right to negotiate for renewable electricity generation, at the Oblogo and Mallam landfill sites in Accra

Sweden’s PA Resources will hold an extraordinary general meeting on 23 November to decide on the board’s proposal to delist from the Oslo Stock Exchange.

Electricity and energy minister Hassan Younis met petroleum and mineral resources minister Sameh Fahmy in late October to confirm the supply of additional gas to the Ministry of Electricity to meet targets in 2011.

Moscow-based investment bank Renaissance Capital has announced a strong return to form following the credit crunch -

Gabon has cancelled its tenth licensing round and will offer the blocks through direct negotiations. Oil minister Julien Nkoghe Bekale has also denied reports that the government is in talks to license all 42 blocks to Chinese firms

The Gulf of Guinea’s numerous liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects were never all going to succeed, but they have been dealt a blow by the development of shale gas in the United States (AE 188/24). Yet African domestic markets may be the ultimate beneficiaries as companies direct their gas to smaller, less complex schemes.

Office National de l'Electricité and an international investment consortium on 25 October signed an emission reduction purchase agreement for a total 2m tonnes of CO2. The carbon credits fall within the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s Barquentine well has made another gas find in Offshore Area 1 of the Rovuma Basin