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ANGOLA: Clov contract for FMC; ANGOLA: Cabinda appraisal well successful; ANGOLA: West Gemini drilling for Total; MAURITANIA: Dana spuds well on Cormoran gas prospect; MOROCCO: Tarfaya oil shale project progresses; MOZAMBIQUE: Sasol signs for onshore gas block; NIGERIA: Hardy sells up to focus on India; NIGERIA/SAO TOME: JDZ partners discuss second phase; SEYCHELLES: Seismic deal for EEZ; TANZANIA: M&P drills on Kianika; TUNISIA: Lambouka well

EGYPT: Ain El Sokhna tender; MOZAMBIQUE: German solar firm in rural electrification project; MOROCCO: International Power, Nareva to build wind farm

A new fuel terminal at the TangerMed port project is close to completion and will be brought into service by year-end.

A lawsuit filed by one of the Gulf region’s most high-profile expatriate executives could point to a dark side in the mighty Abu Dhabi business empire, if the allegations are proven, and threatens to reignite controversy over several deals, including a major power project in Morocco. The suit has been filed in the United States by former Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa) chief executive Peter Barker-Homek against his erstwhile employer. Taqa rejects all the charges and has said it will contest the case vigorously.

GE and consortium partner Cegelec of France have won a 25-month contract worth more than E200m ($264m) to supply fuel-flexible gas turbines for the 300MW Kenitra power plant. They will supply three GE Frame 9E gas turbines that burn heavy fuel oil (HFO) with distillate as a back-up.

Circle Oil placing raises $65m; Brief stay for new Hyperdynamics CFO; Potential Sonangol Iraqi farm-out

In the clearest sign yet of wind’s potential to meet large-scale power needs, Morocco’s renewables-friendly government has set a target of 2,000MW installed wind power capacity by 2020.

ANGOLA: New find on Block 15/06; EGYPT: Mitsui buys in; GABON: Perenco workover raises output; MOROCCO: Exploration progress; NIGERIA/SAO TOME: Total Takes Chevron’s Block 1 stake; NIGERIA: Drilling success for Sinopec; TUNISIA: AfDB funds for Etap; UGANDA: Butiaba appraisal success

Eni and its partners have made a new oil discovery in Block 15/06 with the deep-water Cabaça SE-1 well. The well, located in 470 metres of water 100km offshore, encountered significant oil-bearing reservoirs in the Miocene series. An appraisal well is planned to be drilled in Q3 2010 with the objective of delineating and testing this oil accumulation. Cabaça SE-1 is the seventh exploration well drilled in Block 15/06 since the block was awarded at the end of 2006. The eighth well of the exploration drilling campaign, Mpungi-1, is currently being drilled,and it will complete the work commitment of the first exploration period. The block has delivered six commercial discoveries out of the seven prospects drilled to date.

The sale of the latest block of Royal Dutch Shell’s African distribution assets – of which the Anglo-Dutch major’s Moroccan network comprising 322 service stations is by far the biggest component – and speculation about a new round of downstream investment in the kingdom is driving speculation about the intentions of Berber entrepreneur turned politician Aziz Akhannouch.

CAMEROON: Spain’s Indra to modernise IT systems; MALI: O&M contract for Sopam plant; MOROCCO: Ain Beni Mathar inaugurated; MOZAMBIQUE: El Sewedy to reinforce urban grids; ZAMBIA: EIB considers Itezhi-Tezhi finance

Casablanca-based developer Nareva Holding has awarded France’s Alstom a contract to deliver turbines for the largest of its three planned wind farms, to generate up to 200MW at Akhfennir, 100km from Tarfaya, in southern Morocco.

The Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen) has issued its eagerly anticipated call for expressions of interest to develop the first 500MWe unit of the kingdom’s 2,000MW solar generation programme,

Office Nationale de l’Electricité has finally opened the technical bids of consortia who qualified to build the 1,320MW Safi coal-fired power station.

The Desertec Industrial Initiative (DII) to export solar power from North Africa to Europe continues to exercise considerable media and industry interest, promising clean energy from a network of solar generators based in the desert lands south of the Mediterranean.