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The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has selected Ron Robinson LLC to study funding opportunities for power projects in southern Africa.

A soaring oil price is propelling Angola’s post-war rehabilitation, making it a force to be reckoned with on international markets, though questions remain on how it can manage OPEC quotas.

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

CityView to work with local operator; PA completes MPS farm-in; Dry well on WEEM; Noble spuds Benita appraisal; Chinese partners; New reconnaissance licence for Czechs; Kunene well spuds; Key teams up with Pancontinental; Tower Block 5 drilling plans

Portugal’s Escom to build Luapasso; Norway sends gensets to Liberia; Work starts on Aïn Beni Mathar; Senegalese rural electrification; India to finance Isimba project

Sonangol likely to be well received for its foray into structured finance markets

The government has postponed for at least one year the bid round for ten exploration blocks that it launched in October 2007 (AE 125/11). The round, which included three blocks with water depth below 3,000 metres, has been postponed for “technical reasons”,

ANGOLA: Deutsche Bank loan for roads; BENIN: Ex-Im Bank supports turbine sales; NIGERIA: FirstBank diversifies with Brazilian import line

ANGOLA: Block 15/06 find; ANGOLA: SeaBird contract; REPUBLIC OF CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE): Moho-Bilondo starts up; EGYPT: Melrose record production from its acreage; GAMBIA: GB Energy pulls out; LIBYA: Hess to acquire 2D seismic; MADAGASCAR: Seismic shoot; MAURITANIA: Banda NW sidetrack hits oil and gas; TUNISIA: Sud Remada drilling success

Australian newcomer CityView Corporation says it has been offered participation in four existing Angolan offshore oil permits.

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

ANGOLA: CMIC contract for Luanda grid; KENYA: Bamburi Cement to increase biomass use; LIBERIA: Stanley to study Mount Coffee expansion; MOROCCO: Abdelmoumen STEP deadline; MOZAMBIQUE: EDM seeks bids to extend grid; NIGERIA: Chinese to build first coal-fired plant; TANZANIA: AfDB funding; UGANDA: French JV to supply Bujagali; UPDEA: European meeting to discuss reform study

Roc Oil has suffered another disappointment in its seven-well programme on the Cabinda South block (AE 127/16).

ALGERIA: Energy subsidies hamper WTO; ANGOLA/NIGERIA: Oil business PRI rates come down

ANGOLA: LNG technology deal; REPUBLIC OF CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE): Refinery contract; LIBYA: Indonesians agree long-term crude supply