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Azurite disappointment; Oando swamp rig for Shell; Total starts work on Ofon Phase 2; Shell wins Orange Basin right; Third time lucky for Tower?

Sasol New Energy has contracted France’s Alstom and US solar company BrightSource Energy to undertake a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for a solar-thermal power plant

After the five-nation Western Power Corridor (Westcor) venture failed, South Africa and other regional partners pulled back from grandiose plans to exploit the potential 50GW Grand Inga hydropower resource. Now the saga is entering another phase, with BHP pulling out and South African sources confirming that a bilateral treaty covering Inga developments agreed when presidents Jacob Zuma and Joseph Kabila Kabange met in November will be ready to sign in late February/early March

First fuel flowed through Transnet’s new 555km multi-product pipeline, running from the Port of Durban to Jameson Park, south of Johannesburg, on 11 January

The UK’s IPSA Group has completed the sale of two Siemens Westinghouse 701 DU gas turbines to Singapore company Bright Day

Crude deal agreed with Swaziland; Products terminal tender; European procurement specialist sets up in SA

A consortium of Sasol Petroleum International, Statoil and Chesapeake Energy Corporation has decided not to apply for shale gas exploration rights in the Karoo Basin, following a 12-month study.

Industry optimists may argue that investment commitments are rising, along with the number of opportunities to buy into long-term generation, transmission and distribution schemes. But much of the running in supplying power to fast-growing sub-Saharan economies – and their electricity-poor populations – is still being made by providers of temporary solutions. Below, African Energy provides an indicative listing of recent emergency, standby and distributed projects in a variety of sub-Saharan economies

South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the 40-50GW Grand Inga hydro project during a 12 November visit to Lubumbashi by President Jacob Zuma

Proposals for a refinery at Coega in the Eastern Cape have been thrown into doubt by the National Planning Commission’s lack of enthusiasm for a new refinery, writes Adrian J Browne. A new report from the National Planning Commission has questioned the need for another refinery, casting further doubt over proposals for a refinery at the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ).

While the granting of long-awaited offshore deep-water rights to Shell and hints about the end of a shale gas moratorium will garner most of the international attention, equally noteworthy is the growing role of new indigenous players, writes Adrian J Browne

The SAPP is putting on a brave face about prospects for the region’s electricity supply industry and its own performance, looking to inflows of investment to install more generation capacity across southern Africa and for the pool’s trading mechanisms to gain momentum

There have been too many false dawns as South Africa realities have failed to live up to the rhetoric of electricity supply industry liberalisation or diversification into renewables, but the 53 bids received by the Department of Energy (DoE) in the first round of bidding to build renewable power plants have raised hopes that major privately financed wind and solar projects will finally go ahead

There have been too many false dawns as South Africa realities have failed to live up to the rhetoric of electricity supply industry liberalisation or diversification into renewables, but the 53 bids received by the Department of Energy (DoE) in the first round of bidding to build

Energy minister Elizabeth Dipuo Peters has ordered an audit to establish the reliability of six oil refineries following an increasing number of unplanned shutdowns