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Flex LNG Nigerian project; Chinese CTL plans; Total/CNOOC New energies co-operation

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

Afren and its partner Amni International Petroleum Development Company have announced the start of production from the Okoro Setu project in OML 112. Initial production from the first of two wells drilled to date has commenced at a rate of more than 3,000 b/d of 27º API gravity oil. .

Aker Nigerian contract; MOL agreement with Libyan SWF; Aoun’s move to Shell underlines management change; WAVEFIELD secures big BP contract in Libya

French partnership agreement; Sudan and China have signed eight agreements

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has produced an atlas of ‘before and after’ satellite images documenting environmental change in Africa. Some of the changes, like the shrinking of Lake Chad, now one tenth of its size 40 years ago, and falling water levels in Lake Victoria, are already well recorded, while others, like the disappearance of glaciers in Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains vital to the region’s

CNPC has won the race for the Agadem block with a promise of $5bn of investment, apparently calculating that eastern Niger’s oil is worth the practical and security challenges of extracting it.

UK gas operator Centrica has denied reports from Lagos that it has signed a $12bn deal with Akwa Ibom State to build a new liquefied natural gas plant. Reuters on 27 May quoted state governor Godswill Akpabio as saying that the plant would be built on Tom Island in Mbo district.

BG GROUP: North African moves; Heerema completes Hasdrubal platform. BP: long-term agreements with Amec, KBR and Worley Parsons. EQUATOR: Better news boosts shares

London-based independent power producer Revonergy has announced a memorandum of understanding with the Ondo State government to build a 14MW waste-to-energy plant fuelled by wood waste and sawdust from the sawmill industry. The electricity produced will be supplied directly to the sawmills, and the surplus will be sold to the national grid on a long-term power purchase agreement basis.

Shell Petroleum Development Company has invited companies to prequalify for a tender for operations and maintenance for the Afam VI power plant near Port Harcourt. The 600-700MW combined cycle gas turbine plant will be operated under a power purchase agreement with Power Holding Company of Nigeria, and the contractor will be required to prepare the plant for operation and then take charge of its day-to-day O&M.

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

Better known for its activities with the Government of Southern Sudan, former England cricketer Philippe Edmonds’ White Nile Ltd has widened its horizons, buying private oil company PA Energy Africa Ltd for $1.839m in cash and 3,132,688 shares.

Royal Dutch Shell could be within a few weeks of agreeing a deal to inject cash into its Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) joint venture, by extending a series of loans to bridge funding gaps caused by the state’s failure to pay its share of development costs.

Officials at this month’s gas master plan roadshows emphasised how well positioned Nigeria was in terms of gas export potential. “Regionally, we are positioning ourselves very strongly and recently started