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Issue 269 - 16 January 2014

Gambia: Government cancels licences

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The government has cancelled licences awarded to African Petroleum and Oranto Petroleum for “failure to meet the licence obligations by the licensees”. A statement by the Office of the President in Banjul said the government’s decision was in accordance with the provisions of the country’s petroleum laws. African Petroleum farmed into blocks A1 and A4 held by Canada’s Buried Hill Energy in August 2010, while Oranto held the onshore Lower River Block. “These licences have been terminated with immediate effect. The Gambia government will not allow any institution to acquire licences only to keep them for speculation.

Gambia
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Biomass producer Buchanan Renewables (BR) has been sold to an investor group, after a project to recycle old rubber trees and rejuvenate Liberia’s once world-leading rubber industry proved more challenging than expected. Stockholm-based Vattenfall and Swedish government-owned private equity company Swedfund backed the project to convert old rubber trees from the former Firestone plantation to woodchip. The woodchips were intended to fuel a 36MW biomass power plant in Monrovia, as well as being sold for export. But the scheme ran into difficulties and the Swedish backers pulled out last year.

Liberia
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The Central Electricity Board (CEB) has issued a tender for the supply, installation and commissioning of a 60MW diesel plant as part of the redevelopment of the St Louis thermal power station. Units for the new plant will be no smaller than 15MW. The contract is being financed with a dollar denominated loan from the African Development Bank. Bids are due by 1 October and a pre-bid meeting and site visit will be held on 4 August. Further information and bidding documents are available from the CEB website, www.ceb.intnet.mu.

Mauritius
Issue 296 - 12 March 2015

Kenya: New blocks

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Kenya plans to redraft its exploration acreage, raising the total number of blocks from 46 to 60, petroleum commissioner Martin Heya told the East African Petroleum Conference in Kigali on 4 March. He said a new bid round was planned, but preparations would take at least two years. “We need to prepare data and package it and put it in a room where people can come and look at it,” he said.

Kenya
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The BP/government joint venture Pharaonic Petroleum Company has given OneSubsea a contract of more than $80m to supply subsea equipment for the East Nile Delta END-3 development. The development, some 70km offshore, is an expansion of the Taurt development to which OneSubsea supplied equipment in 2006. The contractor, a joint venture of Cameron and Schlumberger, will supply subsea production equipment, wet gas flow meters, high-integrity pressure protection systems, and installation and operational spares for four well systems.

Egypt
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Office National d'Electricité et de l’Eau Potable has released the 2013 procurement plan for the Integrated Wind and Rural Electrification project. Three tenders worth an estimated combined total of €222m ($290m) will be sought during the year.

Morocco
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Finland’s Wärtsilä Corporation announced on 15 May that it had been awarded a ten-year operations and maintenance agreement for the 50MW heavy fuel oil (HFO) Ndola Energy Company Ltd (NECL) power plant in Zambia. NECL is a subsidiary of Great Lakes Energy NV. The power plant will comprise six Wärtsilä 32 generators using HFO from the Indeni refinery adjacent to the power plant. It is expected to begin selling power to the Zambia Electricity Supply Company Ltd in July.

Zambia
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Fresh details of the machinations surrounding the sale of Heritage’s Ugandan oil acreage have emerged in the latest batch of WikiLeaks releases, writes Adrian J Browne.

Uganda
Issue 241 - 19 October 2012

Botswana: Ormil expands exploration

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Australia’s Ormil Energy has received government approval for a four-year petroleum exploration licence for an area of 23,700km2 in the Ngamiland and Central districts

Botswana
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A renewed attempt by the democratically legitimate Tobruk-based government led by Abdullah Al-Thinni to claim control over National Oil Corporation (NOC) operations and international marketing of crude exports has had little effect. Despite Thinni’s official decree on 17 March informing all contracted parties that the eastern headquarters of NOC set up under chairman Mabrouk Bouseif is “the only legitimate channel that has the right to deal and to contract companies to authorise the sale of oil and gas”, oil market sources canvassed by African Energy said that nothing had changed.

Egypt
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After years of talk, the five governments supporting the Western Corridor (Westcor) project – Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, and South Africa – have decided to shelve the scheme to provide electricity from the planned 3,500MW Inga III to the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP).

Botswana | DR Congo | Angola | Namibia | South Africa
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Russia’s Lukoil Overseas has drilled a successful appraisal well on the Indépendance discovery on Block CI-401 in the Tano Basin. The well was drilled to a total depth of more than 4,500 metres in 1,600 metre water depths using Ocean Rig’s Eirik Raude semisubmersible rig. Lukoil said the well had proven oil presence in the Turonian sands of the oil and gas condensate field of the Indépendance structure discovered in December 2011. It said data from the well were being processed to evaluate the potential resource base and inform a decision on further field appraisal.

Côte d'Ivoire
Issue 318 - 25 February 2016

Egypt lines up gas, coal, renewables IPPs

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The first independent power project (IPP) in Egypt since 1999 is likely to be a 250MW wind project in the Gulf of Suez which was awarded to France’s Engie (formerly GDF Suez) last year and will be formally signed in March. Next in line is likely to be the first 1,200MW phase of Benchmark Power International (BPI)’s combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) project in the Nile Delta, which is not far from financial close after securing backing from Abraaj Group with the support of the African Development Bank (AfDB, see Power).

Egypt
Issue 281 - 12 July 2014

Burkina Faso: New head for Sonabhy

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Boukary Jean Baptiste de la Salle Béréhoundougou has been named director-general of Société Nationale d‘Hydrocarbures (Sonabhy). Béréhoundougou, until now the inspector of customs, replaces Paul Marie Compaoré, who was formally retired following a difficult period for the state hydrocarbons import, stockage and distribution company. Hilaire Kaboré had been acting as interim director-general. Sonabhy reported CFA9.85bn ($20m) net profit in 2013 on a turnover of CFA528.4bn.

Burkina Faso
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Premier Oil has confirmed plans to shut down the Chinguetti field by year-end, saying operator Petronas submitted an abandonment and decommissioning plan to the government on 29 June. Output has declined steadily due to natural decline from the existing wells, and the field is no longer economic at the current low oil price. Chinguetti started up in 2003, but proved more geologically complex and less productive than anticipated. Gross production in 2015 averaged 5,083 b/d, compared to 5,512 b/d in 2014. No infill drilling or workover activity took place on the field during 2015.

Mauritania