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The international upstream arm of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) has a mandate to increase its reserves and production mainly through acquisitions across Africa and elsewhere

Government of Southern Sudan vice president Riek Machar has denied reports that the autonomous southern government has been calling for exploration ahead of the referendum on southern independence in 2011. Meanwhile, the national government has called on international oil companies to accelerate their operations, and, in the blighted territory of South Darfur, the governor has announced the start of exploration by Chinese operating company Petro Energy.

Building a pipeline from South Sudan through Kenya would not make economic sense, Sudan’s new national petroleum minister, a leading southerner, has said.

Three oil companies have been accused of being complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan.

The Khartoum government’s Dams Implementation Unit (DIU) has signed contracts with China Three Gorges Project Corporation and the China International Water and Electric Corporation for the $838m Upper Atbara Dams Complex Project in north-east Sudan.

President Omar Al-Bashir has split the Ministry of Energy and Mining into three, installing southerner Lual Acuek Deng as oil minister

In an interesting sign of growing private sector involvement in Sudanese energy, ASEC Cement and Taqa Arabia, both companies of Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital, have inaugurated a 42MW power plant at a new cement project (AE 180/7).

South Sudan is seeking expressions of interest (EoIs) from international investors for a proposed 50,000 b/d refinery in Akon.

DJIBOUTI: World Bank moots extra funding; EGYPT: Options to add hydro to Zefta dam; MALI: SNC Lavalin to study Gourbassi; MOZAMBIQUE: Backbone contract award; RWANDA: Sustainable energy tender; SUDAN: Letter of award for Upper Atbara hydro

After a difficult period of collapsing financing and often disappointing results, African biofuels investors believe markets are set to improve so they can launch new export and domestic fuel and power projects, write François Misser and Jon Marks

France’s Solar Euromed has entered into an exclusive agreement with the Ministry of Energy and Mining for the development, construction and operation of a 2,000MW solar power programme to be implemented over the next decade.

SUDAN: Khartoum refinery expansion deal this year; UGANDA: Foster Wheeler in refinery study

DR CONGO: Snel management contract; EGYPT: Power plant switchboards tender; EGYPT: Ain El Sokhna tender; REGIONAL: Power line progress; SIERRA LEONE: Worker demonstration; SOUTH AFRICA: Renewable energy boost; SUDAN: Egyptians mobilise cement plant project; UGANDA: Tariff cuts criticised for being too limited; ZAMBIA: Solar energy gets funding

Ethiopia in EITI, Guinea temporarily out; Big US fund divests Sudan related interests; French loan for Medupi turbines

ANGOLA: First Subsea contract for PSVM; CAMEROON: Polarcus in seismic survey for Noble/Petronas; GABON: Vaalco extends Etame permit; LIBYA: Hess tests offshore well; MOZAMBIQUE: Anadarko drilling; NAMIBIA: Chariot starts second 3D survey; SENEGAL: FAR extension; SOUTH AFRICA: Companies to explore for shale gas; SUDAN: Three new agreements for CNPC; TUNISIA: PGS to shoot seismic for AuDAX