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Revised in October 2012, this map provides an overview of Northern Egypt’s onshore oil and gas exploration and development. The location of existing oil and gas fields are shown, along with existing and future pipelines, refineries, processing plants, oil tanker and LNG liquefaction terminals. The map outlines blocks offered in the 2011/12 EGPC and 2012 Egas bid rounds alongside licenced blocks.

GE Oil and Gas is to supply equipment and technology for the Chevron-operated Lianzi project, to bring the offshore field straddling Angola and Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) on stream

London-based offshore Block 2B operator Thombo Petroleum Ltd has awarded a 3D seismic acquisition and processing contract to WesternGeco, covering 686km2 of the A‐J1 graben off South Africa’s west coast.

Gécamines is planning a 500MW coal-fired power plant in Katanga province, its managing director, Ahmed Kalej Nkand, told Spintelligent’s late October Ipad event in Lubumbashi.

The Azito gas power plant’s 139MW expansion has reached financial close, almost exactly a year after the concession agreement for the $430m project was approved by the government.

Tullow Oil has agreed a farm-in to Guinea’s offshore, taking over operatorship from Houston-based Hyperdynamics, which drilled a dry well on the acreage earlier this year.

The Saudi Fund for Development has signed an agreement to provide a $220m loan to Tunisia, of which $114m will go towards developing a fourth power plant in Sousse. Another $81m will go towards expanding Tunisia’s domestic gas network, and the remainder towards professional training in poorer areas.

Simba Energy says production-sharing contracts (PSCs) for its three blocks have been approved by the government, but National Assembly approval is still needed before operations can begin.

Having pulled back from bidding for projects across Africa under the Eskom Enterprises banner, the South African giant is considering rejuvenating its operations north of the Limpopo, notably in big hydropower schemes in Mozambique and possibly Congo.

The US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is delivering on its promise to help Zanzibar to overcome the problems created by its ageing power infrastructure, which have left the archipelago vulnerable to protracted outages that have at times restricted the availability of clean water and damaged the tourist industry

Conference and business information company Global Pacific & Partners has named former National Oil Corporation of Kenya (Nock) managing director Mary M’mukindia as its East Africa representative, as the region’s onshore and offshore oil and gas potential is increasingly in the spotlight.

Foreign exchange reserves fell by 2% in September to $4.1bn – the equivalent of 2.6 months of imports – as trends towards dollarization and election-related spending added to downward pressures.

Plans to develop an iron ore joint venture are in doubt, Legend Mining Ltd said on 29 October, after the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed junior’s South Korean partner Posco Africa (Pty) Ltd said it would not proceed due to global market conditions.

As well as clarifying the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme, energy minister Elizabeth Dipuo Peters on 29 October announced that 7,761MW of baseload generation capacity would be open to bids from independent power producers before 2025

The board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) met in Lusaka on 25-26 October to discuss drafting the new EITI standard, which would widen the scope of disclosure requirements.