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Indian parastatal ONGC Videsh, holder of a 16% net interest in the TotalEnergies-operated Mozambique liquified natural gas (MLNG) development, has provided an update of when it expects force majeure at the 13.1m t/yr project to be lifted.

Italy’s Eni is selling its onshore exploration and production subsidiary Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to local conglomerate Oando, becoming the latest international major to offload non-core African assets. The deal includes stakes in the gas-fired Okpai 1 and Okpai 2 power plants, with a combined capacity of 960MW.

After months of speculation that President Macky Sall would bid for a constitutionally-prohibited third term, his announcement in July that he wouldn’t run was greeted with relief. Yet continued political violence and a fear Sall may seek to install a proxy candidate underline wider governance concerns, not least over hydrocarbon revenues, writes Waly Dione Faye.

Ethiopia is set to join the ranks of Africa’s lithium exporters, with first production from the Kenticha resource slated for later this year. But doubts about this claim have been raised by a group of Abyssinian Metals shareholders, who are fighting a boardroom and courtroom battle to remove the Australian developer’s board.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan appointed Doto Mashaka Bitek as her energy minister, along with a promotion to deputy prime minister, in a 30 August cabinet reshuffle that moved January Makamba to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Co-operation.

Serengeti Energy  has appointed Anton-Louis Olivier as its new chief executive. The industry veteran joins the Nairobi-headquartered independent power producer (IPP) from Norway’s Scatec, where his most recent role was head of African hydroelectric power (HEP).

Finland’s Wärtsilä said on 28 August that it had signed a two-year service agreement with United States-based independent power producer (IPP) ContourGlobal for its 86MW Cap des Biches plant.

China’s Kaishan Group is acquiring one of the three 35MW geothermal developments at Menengai from Symbion Power, while Sosian Menengai Geothermal Power has connected to the Kenya Power grid and Globeleq’s documentation will soon be finalised, a senior official said.

Italian major Eni has achieved a time-to-market of under two years, with first production announced from its Baleine (Whale) field, offshore Côte d’Ivoire (CdI). The project has been presented as the first emissions-free Scope-1 and -2 upstream production project in Africa, as well as CdI’s largest ever hydrocarbons discovery.

Vedanta Zinc International has signed a power purchase agreement with independent power producer Enernet Global (Enernet) to develop a solar PV plant to supply its Black Mountain mines in Aggeneys, Northern Cape, South Africa.

The Greater Tortue Ahmeyim LNG and Sangomar oil projects have announced delays, which Senegalese sources told African Energy were caused by one-off external factors that should be resolved soon, while a date has been set for the Yakaar-Teranga offshore gas field’s FID.

Amea Power has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with state utility Electricité de Djibouti (EDD) that will see the Dubai-based compnay become the first independent power producer (IPP) to develop a solar project in Djibouti.

French uranium miner Orano’s Orano Mining Namibia (OMN) subsidiary said construction work has started at the first phase of the Sorexa solar PV project that will supply its Erongo Desalination Plant (EDP), sited 35km north of Swakopmund. Sorexa is planned to be scaled up, with future phases supplying other commercial and industrial offtakers in Namibia.    

After commissioning the Motheo copper mine, ASX-listed Sandfire Resources is pushing ahead with plans to expand production, which will include adding solar power and battery energy storage capacity.

South African state utility Eskom has confirmed the restart date for the 970MW Unit I at the Koeberg nuclear power plant. The unit was switched off last December for maintenance and a steam generator replacement.