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The European Investment Bank (EIB) is considering a partial withdrawal from the controversial Chad-Cameroon pipeline project, following the World Bank Group’s withdrawal from the revenue management scheme last year (AE 146/28).

The European Union has signed an interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Cameroon, the first of its kind with a Central African trade partner.

ANGOLA: Pipelines contract for LNG plant; ANGOLA: Technip to expand Angoflex; GHANA/CAMEROON: USTDA study; MADAGASCAR: Enermad farms out to Niko Resources; MOROCCO: Canamens takes Essaouira blocks; NAMIBIA: Key pulls out; SIERRA LEONE: Elixir takes over after Prontinal fails to pay; UGANDA: Tower farms out Area 5; UGANDA: Heritage spuds Giraffe

Austria’s Andritz VA Tech Hydro announced in mid-December that it had received a contract valued at more than 40m ($54m) from AES Sonel for refurbishment of the 263MW Edea and 396MW Songloulou hydropower projects on the Sanaga River. The hydropower equipment supplier said it would replace turbine-generators of units 1, 2, and 3 at Edea I. The three units were supplied and installed by the Austrian company between 1949 and 1955 and will each be upgraded from 35.3 MW to 49.2 MW.

CAMEROON: Andritz VA Tech Hydro wins refurb order; EGYPT: AfDB loan for Ain Sokhna; EGYPT: Bechtel gets nuclear design and consultancy contract; EGYPT: Transmission order for KEC; GHANA: Gas-to-power plans; MOZAMBIQUE: EU-backed capacity-building TA work; NAMIBIA: NamPower tenders Ruacana IV civil works; NAMIBIA: EIB/EU support for NamPower, Caprivi interconnector; NIGER: Areva to mine Imouraren uranium; NIGERIA: Business lobby plans 30MW wind farm; SUDAN: Talks on co-operation with Iran; TOGO: Opic funding for Lomé plant

Cameroon is looking to a potential single train LNG project if it can gather sufficient natural gas in a new national system, officials told African Energy.

GdF Suez plans LNG plant; KBR wins Lobito refinery FEED; Chevron sells downstream ops to Total; Foster Wheeler to oversee Zwara refinery

The government has invited expressions of interest from consultants to undertake a study into the cumulative environmental impact of the 56MW Lom Pangar hydropower project and other potential projects in the Sanaga River Basin (AE 142/8).

AES Corporation has created a holding company for its operations in Cameroon and Nigeria. The US developer said AES Africa Power Company (AES Apco) “will be addressing market opportunities through this vehicle and intends to seek partners in the venture”.

Chevron Africa Holdings has agreed to sell Chevron Nigeria Holdings (CNH) and its operations in Benin, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire and Togo to Corlay Global, a Panamanian company owned by a consortium of Nigeria’s MRS Holdings Ltd and Petroci Holdings of Cote d’Ivoire. Bermuda-registered CNH holds 60% of the publicly listed Chevron Oil Nigeria.

Victoria Oil and Gas (VOG), a company hitherto focused on the former Soviet Union, has said it is in talks on the possible acquisition of Guernsey-registered Bramlin Ltd, which is developing the Logbaba gas and condensate project.

Edinburgh-based, AIM-listed Bowleven plc has announced a first oil discovery on the Etinde permit with the IF-1r exploration well, which spudded in May. The well flowed an average rate of 3,371 b/d of API 36º oil and 2.65m ft3/d of associated gas from the upper Isongo section.

Less than five years after the first oil flowed into the Chad-Cameroon pipeline, the World Bank Group’s much vaunted revenue management project has collapsed (AE 119/4). Chad has taken advantage of the high world oil price to pay back its loan, and is now free to

Guernsey-registered Bramlin Ltd has announced that its Rodeo Development subsidiary, which operates the Logbaba gas field near Douala, has executed three agreements to sell gas to industrial customers in the Douala area.

Addax Petroleum has announced mixed results from its first exploration wells in the Ngosso and Iroko licence areas.