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DR Congo infrastructure mission; CAMCE to build Betsiboka hydropower plant: Zapatero government to finance PV installation; Sokoto State plans IPP

CITYVIEW: Nigeria refinery plans; SONELGAZ: Domestic gas pipeline contracts

ERHC Energy has filed a lawsuit in the Federal High Court in Abuja “to stop any tampering with its rights” in Blocks 5 and 6 of the Nigeria/São Tomé Joint Development Zone (JDZ), following media reports that it had been removed from the blocks.

SOCO plans drilling; Sea Dragon to drill; Vitol seeks farm-in partners; Circle Oil makes gas find; Total farms into deep water

Warnings by presidential advisor Rilwanu Lukman that Nigeria’s oil refineries were on “the verge of collapse” have proved prescient. All four of the country’s plants, which are meant to process 445,000 b/d of crude, have stopped functioning.

Ahead of the promised law to break up Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), plans to privatise Products and Pipelines Marketing Company (PPMC) – which operates a network of petrol distribution pipelines and depots – and Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) have been shelved by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and NNPC group managing director Abubakar Lawal Yar’Adua.

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on 29 October released some 20 ministers from their portfolios in the 44-member government, finally moving to end months of speculation that had all but paralysed government activity in a country where the economy and policy-making are lorded over by politicians.

ALGERIA: Larbâa on stream by end-2009; ETHIOPIA: EEPCo seeks Geba dam EOIs; ETHIOPIA: Construction manager sought for Chemoga-Yeda; GHANA: VRA tender; NIGERIA: Nerc licenses IPP to supply industrial plant, grid

ALGERIA: Pipeline crack forces force majeure on LNG; CHAD: Refinery ceremony; MOROCCO: Samir upgrade on schedule; MOZAMBIQUE: Shell to provide refinery study; NIGERIA: Bonny LNG terminal attacked; NIGERIA: Trafigura retains Indian crude swap contract

Feeling more politically assertive with a northerner in the presidency, and seeking to promote parastatals’ activity in developing infrastructure outside traditional growth areas, ‘northern elites’ are pushing NNPC and other companies to increase their activities in the politically powerful but economically under-developed region.

With Nigeria’s national power utility making little headway in improving supply, a growing number of federal states are going it alone in securing finance for independent power projects, writes Jon Marks, recently in Abuja.

Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Ltd (TEPNG) has signed a contract with a consortium of Saipem, Ponticelli and Desicon to upgrade the Obite gas operation on OML 58, in a project that will boost gas supply to Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd (NLNG) at Bonny and help cut flaring.

Politics threatens to disrupt ambitious power sector plans yet again in Nigeria

Despite its corruption, violence and lack of political cohesion, Nigeria remains one of the best credit risks that are offered to insurers, according to a senior political risk insurance (PRI) underwriter in the Lloyd’s of London market. “It’s a good market, which has never thrown out any credit risk losses,” he said. However, capacity for Nigeria among

The government on 15 October ended Sonatrach affiliate Naftal’s monopoly over the sector. The OMEL joint venture between Indian oil major ONGC and Lakshmi Mittal’s Mittal Energy has indicated that there is life in its venture to set up a first refinery in Nigeria.