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France’s Alstom Hydro has been awarded a contract by Duglas Alliance, part of Ukraine’s Dorado Alliance, to supply equipment for the 200MW Sendje hydropower plant, located on the Wele River, 40km from Bata. Alstom will provide four 50MW Francis turbines, four generators, four regulation systems, four excitation systems and a control system to the facility, which is expected to begin operating in mid-2017. The company will also supervise installation and commissioning. Ground breaking at the site took place in February 2012.

Equatorial Guinea
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African Petroleum Corporation has named Stuart Lake as chief executive, replacing Karl Thompson, who stepped down on 1 February. Lake was most recently vice president of exploration at Hess, and previously spent 19 years with Royal Dutch Shell. African Petroleum reorganised its board last year, removing Frank Timis from the role of non-executive chairman as part of preparations for moving the company’s listing to the main Australian Stock Exchange from the smaller National Stock Exchange. Timis has assumed the role of president of the executive committee, formed to implement board strategy and to exercise the executive powers of the company.

Issue 358 - 23 November 2017

Sudan: Sri Lankan thermal plant for Nyala

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Sri Lankan logistics specialist Hayleys Advantis Group has relocated the 24MW Lakdhanavai power plant from Sapugaskanda to Nyala, in Sudan’s Darfur region, which it said had been without electricity for four months. The plant, comprising four diesel generators, was shipped to Port Sudan then transported 800km by road.

Sudan
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South Africa’s Sasol has announced a joint prefeasibility study for a large-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant, based on gas from the Rovuma Basin. The study, which is being conducted in conjunction with Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos and Area 4 operator Eni, will assess the viability and benefits of such a plant to the region.

Mozambique | South Africa
Issue 333 - 29 October 2016

Liberia: ExxonMobil to drill in November

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Operator ExxonMobil has said it plans to begin drilling its first well offshore Liberia in November (AE 309/13). The Mesurado-1 well on Block LB-13 will target Cretaceous Santonian-age reservoirs. Operations will be based out of Abidjan, in neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire. ExxonMobil farmed into the block in 2013, taking 83%, but drilling was delayed by the outbreak of the Ebola epidemic in 2014. The other 17% is held by Canadian Overseas Petroleum, which is carried by Exxon for its share of the first $120m of drilling costs.

Liberia
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Mineworkers’ pension fund The Metal Industries Benefit Funds Administrators (Mibfa) intends to invest R1bn ($112m) in projects bidding in South Africa’s renewable energy independent power producers procurement programme. The fund will provide debt finance to 10-15 solar or wind projects, administered by asset manager Mergence Investment Managers.

South Africa
Issue 195 - 09 October 2010

Beneficial interests at heart of Jubilee

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Ghana’s Jubilee oilfield has been plagued by allegations of corruption dating back to beneficial ownership of companies granted licences to work on the giant oil block

Ghana
Issue 200 - 17 December 2010

KenGen set to commission Kipevu III

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Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) plans to commission a new 120MW diesel-fired power plant at Kipevu in January

Kenya
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The South African government’s decision to remove its mandate from AES Corporation to develop a long-awaited independent power project (see Power, above), and the rising number of warnings to markets by companies with southern African operations of the potential for losses of earnings due to outages, shows the crisis in the regional electricity supply industry

South Africa
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With tougher anti-bribery legislation in place in the US and UK, local partners have been identified as a key vulnerability. Foreign companies need them to help them navigate the local business environment, especially if it is government policy to develop local content.

Gambia | Benin | Nigeria | Equatorial Guinea | Burkina Faso
Issue 217 - 08 October 2011

MALI: EITI compliant

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The international board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has designated Mali as EITI compliant, bringing the total number of EITI compliant countries to 12, including five others in Africa.

Mali
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Windhoek-based Nabirm Global has given Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA a contract for a proprietary 3D controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) survey over Block 2113A (PEL 58) in the Walvis Basin. Subject to vessel availability, acquisition is projected to take place in Q1/Q2 2020. EMGS chief executive Bjørn Petter Lindhom said the company was working on developing a 2020 multi-client campaign offshore Namibia, which would allow it to deploy a vessel to the region.

Namibia
Issue 282 - 26 July 2014

Angola/Namibia: Power supply MoU

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On 10 July, NamPower and Angola’s Empresa Nacional de Electricidade signed a memorandum of understanding in Menongue, in Angola’s Cuando Cubango Province. NamPower has agreed to supply electricity to towns and settlements in southern Angola, upgrading supply in Calai, Cuangar, Dirico and Micuso in Cuando Cubango, and extending supply to an additional 20 settlements in the province.

Angola | Namibia
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Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote signed a $650m loan facility with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) on 14 July for his $6.5bn oil refinery project. The signing took place in Abuja during the Cairo-based bank’s annual meetings. The 650,000 b/d Dangote refinery is under construction in the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos State, with start-up due in 2019. The project aims to end Nigeria’s long-standing fuel supply problems, halting dependence on imports and supplying regional markets.

Nigeria
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Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation and Cambridge Industries Energy signed a $120m agreement on 5 January to build a 50MW waste-to-energy plant in Addis Ababa on a turnkey basis.

Ethiopia