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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

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

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:

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

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) said on 10 May it had received an order for two 350MW steam turbines for the Jorf Lasfar expansion project

ALGERIA: In Salah contract; MOROCCO: Dry well for Repsol; LIBYA: Gazprom stalls on Elephant deal.

ANGOLA: Hydro planned on Kwanza River; BOTSWANA: New hitch for CIC sale; MOROCCO: USTDA grant for power projects

The Noble Homer Ferrington semi-submersible rig is on its way earlier than expected to drill the Deep Thon prospect at Repsol’s Tanger Larache permit. Repsol is believed to have failed to get the environmental permissions to drill a planned well offshore Spain, which was to have been the first in the rig’s programme.

With North African governments revising their policies in the wake of the region’s political convulsions, a visit to Algeria by Moroccan energy, mines, water and environment minister Amina Benkhadra raised the prospect that the kingdom might increase liftings of Algerian gas via a new pipeline from Hassi R’Mel, and develop a range of other projects,

Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) has prequalified seven companies to build the 150MW Taza wind farm. Each of the bidders is a major company from a leading industrialised economy, with less familiar corporates and emerging market bidders being dropped from the list. ONE in December said it had received expressions of interest

The kingdom is promoting an ambitious range of programmes to counteract its costly dependence on imported fuel, but Rabat is finding it hard to get shale oil, gas import and coal-fired generation schemes off the ground

State utility company Office National de l’Electricité has lined up a E50m ($67.6m) buyer credit to support the construction of a 72MW power plant in the Agadir region to be built by Man Diesel & Turbo.

Bullish comments by Moroccan officials about the prospects for building a 200,000 b/d greenfield oil refinery at Jorf Lasfar underline the attraction of installing crude refining capacity in-country to reduce dependence on imported products. While a global slump in refining margins,