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Technip contracts for Block 31 developments; PA Resources farms out Marine XIV; EODC contracts for two jack-ups; M&P to appraise Omko-1; Perenco quits Dussafu Marin; Swiss Oil takes Blocks L4 and L13; Candax starts seismic; Universal extends holdings; Aker contract

Business leaders breathed a collective sigh of relief as post-election calm suggested the investment climate would remain stable with the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in control after the 5-6 September general election. Final results, released on 17 September, showed that the

ANGOLA: Wärtsilä to power cement works; ANGOLA: New capacity; DR CONGO: Snel seeks study of Nzilo 2 HEP; MADAGASCAR: Sinohydro contrac; MOROCCO: Bidders for Safi IPP coal plant named; RWANDA: Bhel to build Nyabarongo; SENEGAL: Nuclear talks with Sarko; SOUTH AFRICA: Voith Siemens to equip Ingula

ExxonMobil has announced the start of production from the Saxi and Batuque fields, part of the Kizomba C development.

Total E&P Angola has given a consortium of SBM Offshore and APL, part of Norway’s BW Offshore, a letter of award for the engineering, procurement, supply, construction and Installation of the oil loading system for the Pazflor project on Block 17.

Norwegian activities in African upstream

The Norwegian major’s stakes in Angola include the following:- Block 4/05A – 20% share in Sonangol-operated block now at the development phase that also contains a large area with remaining exploration potential. The Gimboa field is being

Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) has given the go-ahead for BP and its co-venturers to develop a series of deep-water oil discoveries in offshore Block 31. Their programme is based on a standardised development concept.

Morocco’s Office National de l’Electricité and Algeria’s Sonelgaz signed two agreements; China signs financing accords for grid rehab; ONE calls for lights out, Gulf governments chip in; Mohammedia plant rehab; Portugal to fund clean energy; JBIC loan for Eskom; Kyocera donates solar systems to schools; : Consultant sought for Indian-funded Isimba HPP

Chevron subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company (Cabgoc) has installed the Takula gas processing platform (TGPP) on Block 0 offshore Cabinda.

Bechtel Overseas Corporation has awarded a contract to the PLNG consortium led by Saipem’s Petromar subsidiary for the construction of containment systems for the planned 5.2m t/yr Angola LNG plant at Soyo (AE 140/20).

Kellogg, Brown & Root International (KBR) has given Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) two construction contracts for the civil works and piling installation of a new liquefied natural gas train in Skikda being developed by Sonatrach.

ALGERIA: Gulf Keystone gas find ANGOLA: Cabinda South drilling LIBYA: Eni charter MADAGASCAR: Aminex pulls out; MADAGASCAR: Chinese partners; MAURITANIA: RWE farms into onshore; MAURITANIA: Chinguetti drilling; MOZAMBIQUE: Indians plan Rovuma farm-ins; SIERRA LEONE: Elixir completes seismic; TUNISIA: Al Thani rig contract

Cabinda South find, Lukoil plans, Lotshi survey, RWE gas find in North El Amriya, Woodside find in Libya; Sweden’s PA Resources has spudded a second well on the Didon field; Eurogas drills on Sfax permit

Gas project for Saipem; Bowleven drilling; Saqqara start-up; Sequoia contract for Saipem,; Sonatrach, Indians sign for 95/96