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Rolls-Royce has been awarded contracts to provide 11 Bergen B32:40 diesel generating sets to power utilities in Tanzania and Madagascar

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation has announced its third major natural gas discovery this year in Offshore Area 1 of the Rovuma Basin

In another sign of its growing presence in Africa, South Korea has agreed to provide a $35m soft loan to build three solar power plants in Mozambique.

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s Barquentine well has made another gas find in Offshore Area 1 of the Rovuma Basin

Sasol has announced the promotion of Sasol Oil managing director Maurice Radebe to the Sasol Group Executive Committee, where he will be responsible for global corporate affairs, global government relations, and the group black economic empowerment strategy.

ANGOLA: Clov contract for FMC; ANGOLA: Cabinda appraisal well successful; ANGOLA: West Gemini drilling for Total; MAURITANIA: Dana spuds well on Cormoran gas prospect; MOROCCO: Tarfaya oil shale project progresses; MOZAMBIQUE: Sasol signs for onshore gas block; NIGERIA: Hardy sells up to focus on India; NIGERIA/SAO TOME: JDZ partners discuss second phase; SEYCHELLES: Seismic deal for EEZ; TANZANIA: M&P drills on Kianika; TUNISIA: Lambouka well

EGYPT: Ain El Sokhna tender; MOZAMBIQUE: German solar firm in rural electrification project; MOROCCO: International Power, Nareva to build wind farm

The Luxembourg-based European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced plans to provide up to E100m ($129m) of finance for the 1,300km Centre South (Cesul) transmission backbone system between Tete province and Maputo, which should be operational by 2016.

The search for oil offshore East Africa has taken another step forward with Anadarko’s Ironclad well in the offshore Rovuma Basin finding non-commercial shows. Partner Cove Energy said the well was drilled to a total depth of 5,304 metres and penetrated 205 metres of Cretaceous age sediments in two distinct fan lobes.

South African marketer Engen Petroleum Limited has signed share purchase agreements for Chevron’s downstream interests in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean.

CAMEROON: VOG promises Logbaba December delivery; EGYPT: New find for Dana Gas; GUINEA: Hyperdynamics starts 3D survey; MOZAMBIQUE: ENH backs into Sofala, M-10 blocks; MOZAMBIQUE: OGEC Cracow wins drilling contract; NAMIBIA: Universal Power wins licence extension; TUNISIA: Jenein Centre find; APACHE: Big fundraising, Egypt finds; KBR: South African BEE deal

The government has awarded the construction contract for a new $132m bridge across the Zambezi River to the Estradas de Zambeze consortium of Portuguese and Mozambican companies

DR CONGO: Kisangani grid tender; GABON: World Bank seeks power sector review; GHANA: Renewables tariff consultancy; MOZAMBIQUE: EIB funding for energy development; SENEGAL: Juwi installs PV plants; SENEGAL: Senelec seeks equipment, consultants; SOUTH AFRICA: World Bank support for IPP programme; SOUTH AFRICA: GE to supply Transnet

International oil companies including South Africa’s Sasol Petroleum International are bidding for licences to exploit seven oil and gas fields across Mozambique, the Instituto Nacional de Petroleo (INP) has said.

Rehabilitation work on the Massingir dam on the Elephants River in Gaza province, some 330km north of Maputo, should begin in Q4, according to project manager Arlindo Vasco Munguambe, who is director of the technical department of the southern regional water administration Administração Regional de Aguas do Sul (ARA-Sul).