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French group Vinci has set up a new facilities management joint venture in Morocco, working through its Cegelec Maroc and Vinci Facilities subsidiaries.

Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) has issued a tender (SP 465 985) for the turnkey installation of a new coal storage area at Jorf Lasfar, where Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa)-owned Jorf Lasfar Energy Company 5&6 is expanding the coal-fired generation complex.

The long-awaited merger of the kingdom’s two major utilities, Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) and Office National de l’Eau Potable (Onep) into a single public sector company called Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau (Onee) has finally been approved by the Chamber of Counsellors.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is considering E300m ($410m) of financing for the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy’s planned 500MW solar power plant

Perth-based Tangiers Petroleum plans to list on London’s Alternative Investment Market in late November or early December as it seeks to line up partners for its offshore Morocco project. The Australian minnow believes its offshore Tarfaya Block has billion

There are signs of movement, at last, on bidding for flagship solar and other renewables projects, to be installed at either end of the continent. 

Progress has been reported at last in bidding to build the first phase of Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen)’s planned 500MW solar power plant at Ouarzazate (AE 201/10, 196/6, 174/8). 

Kpong hydro rehabilitation; Power sector reform; AFD backs solar power; New units for Kainji

The ‘Arab Spring’, which offered such hope of radical change across North Africa, has entered a long hot summer of doubts and fears, as the Libyan conflict drags on and populations from Morocco to Egypt wait to see if promised political reforms will deliver the hoped for dividends of more open decision-making, fairer legal systems and equitable economic opportunities that will help reduce levels of poverty and give real jobs to the region’s disaffected youth

Dallas-based TransAtlantic Petroleum said on 27 June that it expected to plug and abandon the GRB-1 exploration well on the Asilah exploration permit

Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Morocco, Mozambique and Zambia presented investment plans and projects for approval at the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) partnership forum in Cape Town on 24-25 June, hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB). New projects included:

Higher oil and gas sales and better prices helped North Africa player Circle Oil move into profit for the first time in 2010, reporting a net profit before tax of $10.40m

Kosmos has entered a petroleum agreement with the Office National des Hydrocarbures

A new fuel storage terminal at Tangier port is set to open in September as a significant element of the $1.6bn scheme to make the previously down-at-heel northern Moroccan port a major regional transport hub

Circle expands; Longreach farms into Sidi Moktar