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The West African Power Pool is seeking expressions of interest from consultants to audit the project financial statements for a study on a proposed 225kV interconnection between Guinea and Mali. The audit, funded by the African Development Bank’s African Development Fund soft loans arm, will establish the financial position of the project in 2013 and 2014 and will ensure that resources are being used appropriately. Bids are due by 9 October.

Guinea | Mali
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The African Development Bank board has approved a loan and grant totalling $16.66m for the Conakry Electricity Network Rehabilitation and Extension Project (Prerec2). The project will help to improve the governance and commercial management of Electricité de Guinée (EDG), to support the government’s efforts to reform the sector, and to extend the electricity distribution network to 12 neighbourhoods in the Ratoma and Matoto municipalities in Conakry. The project is a follow-up to Prerec1, which the bank said had significantly improved power supply to 30 other neighbourhoods in the same municipalities.

Guinea
Issue 261 - 05 September 2013

Aggreko to supply 50MW to Guinea

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Following riots over power shortages, the government has signed a $10m contract with Aggreko for 50MW of short-term thermal power for Conakry. Electricité de Guinée director-general Nava Touré said the six-month contract was the only way to calm rising social tensions in the capital. In early August, demonstrators set up roadblocks, burned tyres and halted traffic to protest at the government’s failure to meet its promises to improve electricity supply. Security forces intervened to restore order and at least ten people were injured.

Guinea
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Tullow Oil has announced plans to farm down its equity in the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (Ten) development and production area in return for a carry on development costs. “This will enable Tullow to manage its exposure to development spend over the coming years whilst retaining a material interest and operatorship of the high-value oil production expected to commence in mid-2016,” the company said. The importance of Tullow’s West African oil production portfolio can be seen in the company’s H1 results, in which the region represented 77% of the company’s 88,600 boe/d working interest production. Production from Ghana’s Jubilee field is 110,000 b/d, with a target of 120,000 b/d by year-end, while the company is working to maintain stable production from established fields in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

Ghana | Mauritania | Guinea | Liberia | Côte d'Ivoire
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A source at the presidency has told African Energy that President Alpha Condé and his advisers were discussing a new attempt to privatise Electricité de Guinée (EDG). A management contract for its predecessor company Société Guinéenne d’Electricité was granted in 1994 to Electricité de France (EDF), Hydro-Quebec International and Saur, but they pulled out in 2001, complaining that the government of late president Lansana Conté had made no serious response to their turnaround proposals.

Guinea
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Ethnic clashes in the Nzérékoré region in mid-July that left at least 58 people dead and 160 injured have somewhat overshadowed recent protests against the lack of power. In a speech to the nation in January 2013, President Alpha Condé promised to roll out an emergency plan to improve supply to the capital by the middle of the year. The aim was to increase thermal capacity to improve supply until planned hydro projects come on stream. When Condé came to power in December 2010, Guinea had available capacity of only around 80MW. Efforts to add 100MW of short-term thermal capacity and another 240MW of new hydro have not gone smoothly, but reliable power supply will be critical if Guinea is to realise plans to develop the economy by exploiting the country’s mineral wealth.

Guinea
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A 24 May case management conference heard initial submissions in a tripartite case pitting SCS Corporation against AGR Well Management and drilling company Jasper Offshore. Hyperdynamics subsidiary SCS alleges that AGR – introduced by joint venture partner Dana Petroleum – caused the project to overrun and costs to balloon through inefficiency and incompetence. Singapore-based Jasper, which AGR contracted separately to undertake the drilling, has counter-claimed against AGR for $10m in outstanding invoices. SCS seeks indemnification of $47.3m, having paid AGR $107.6m for the project, while leaving $19.2m in an escrow account pending resolution of the dispute.




Guinea
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Following the 14 April arrest in Florida of a former BSG Resources (BSGR) associate, Frédéric Cilins, the Guinean authorities have detained Ibrahima Sory Touré, a senior manager in the company’s local unit. Cilins, who was involved in setting up the BSGR office in Guinea in the mid-2000s was charged with obstructing a criminal investigation, tampering with a witness and destruction of records.

Guinea
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For eight years, private firm eleQtra has managed projects for InfraCo Africa, an investment group affiliated with the Private Infrastructure Development Group, a group of European countries plus the World Bank that work to boost infrastructural development in hard-to-reach markets. eleQtra managing director Richard Parry told African Energy InfraCo currently has power projects in Cape Verde, Senegal, Zambia and Ghana, and is working with mining company Rio Tinto to provide electricity to the Guinean town of Beyla through a 1MW hydro power plant on the Cessou River.

Ghana | Cabo Verde | Guinea
Issue 252 - 19 April 2013

Steinmetz sues former adviser

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Israeli-French mining entrepreneur Beny Steinmetz has launched a case in London’s High Court against his former public relations adviser FTI Consulting, naming individuals such as former UK minister Lord Mark Malloch Brown (MMB) and business magnate George Soros. In court documents, Steinmetz’s company BSG Resources (BSGR) details how FTI was instructed to defend its interests when it was facing “untrue and damaging” allegations over a mining project in Guinea, but “from the moment MMB joined FTI [in September 2010 as Europe, Middle East and Africa chairman], FTI was in serious breach of its contractual and fiduciary duties to BSGR, including to act in its best interests”.

Guinea
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Tullow Oil has agreed to brave Guinea’s complex operating environment, taking a 40% stake in Hyperdynamics’ offshore concession. Past exploration has been a saga of corrupt governments and inexpert partners, but Tullow’s arrival comes as the government of President Alpha Condé tries to overturn the legacy of dictatorship and military rule. Tullow chief executive Aidan Heavey told African Energy in early November that the geology of the offshore concession was highly promising.

Guinea
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The government is seeking expressions of interest from consultants to revise Guinea’s petroleum code and model production-sharing contract. The aim is to revise the 1986 law to bring it and the model contract in line with international best practice. Bids are due by noon on 15 November.

Guinea
Issue 242 - 01 November 2012

Tullow braves Guinea’s troubled waters

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Tullow Oil has agreed a farm-in to Guinea’s offshore, taking over operatorship from Houston-based Hyperdynamics, which drilled a dry well on the acreage earlier this year.

Guinea
Issue 240 - 05 October 2012

Guinea: HIPC debt relief

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Guinea has reached the completion point for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, paving the way for $2.1bn of debt relief.

Guinea
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Mining gold from the hillsides in north-east Guinea poses huge challenges for investors and the community alike, underlining the need to tackle a range of sensitive issues and manage expectations in long ignored regions of highly under-developed economies, writes Thalia Griffiths, recently in Lero.

Guinea