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Jubilee field operator Tullow Oil has announced another success with the Mahogany-2 appraisal well on the West Cape Three Points licence, which flowed at a test rate of 5,200 b/d of 36-degree API gravity oil and 5.3m ft3/d of associated gas. The well was drilled to a total depth of 3,443 metres by the Songa Saturn drillship in water depths of 1,080 metres (AE 138/15).

Former GNPC head jailed; Winfield wins approvals for refinery project; Abu Dhabi plans refinery; Chemical distribution deal; Petronas puts refinery on hold

ENERISQ: Nigeria partnership; GALP: Portuguese buying Shell operations in three countries

A groundbreaking ceremony for a Ghana-Togo power interconnection scheduled for 10 May had to be postponed at the last minute.

Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) leader John Atta Mills has promised to increase generation capacity to 5,000MW from the present 1,600MW if he wins December’s presidential election. Mills made the pledge in a speech to members of the Association of Ghana Industries in Accra.

Bahamas-based Global Environmental Energy Corporation has agreed to extend Freedom Renewable Energy’s licence to negotiate a contract with Ghana for the supply of Global’s Chinese-made biosphere systems to turn solid waste into energy.

The Ministry of Energy is implementing a programme to provide up to 50% grant financing for rural dwellers to purchase solar home systems and solar lanterns.

Generating considerable analyst interest, Tullow Oil has said the Mahogany-2 appraisal well on the West Cape Three Points licence has intersected a significant column of light oil.

The high global cost of oil and gas exploration has slowed the pace of work on some of the Gulf of Guinea’s smaller plays, and several blocks secured at the height of industry excitement about the region are now changing hands as the original licensees review their positions. Many of the newcomers are Australians, originally tempted into Africa’s east coast and now looking west. For a number of players,

Cegelec to expand grid at Arzew; Work starts at Kpone plant; Strategic energy study; Coal miner plans 500MW power plant; Higher tariffs; AFC backs power project; Mittal in deal with Coal of Africa; Miners complain of power shortages

The West African Power Pool (WAPP) has signed two contracts for updating pre-investment studies on the 225kV Bolgatanga (Ghana)-Ouagadougou interconnection project

Afren plc has followed its acquisition of Devon Energy Corporation’s assets in Ghana and Angola by acquiring Devon’s assets in Côte d’Ivoire

Nigeria agreed to supply Ghana with 60,000 b/d of crude on a government-to-government basis, during talks in Abuja between President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and his Ghanaian counterpart John Agyekum Kufuor.

The African Development Bank and the government have signed a loan agreement to provide $44m for the Power Systems Reinforcement Project.