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Renewables projects are attracting strong interest from financiers, with Morocco offering particularly strong incentives for investors, writes John Hamilton

EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Mbini refinery plans; GHANA: TOR closure; MOROCCO: Turkish contract for Samir; SENEGAL: Saudis bid for refinery stake

A Japanese consortium led by the Mitsui group has been awarded the main engineering, procurement and construction contract for two 350MW supercritical coal-fired units to be installed at Jorf Lasfar. The Jorf 5 and Jorf 6 units will supply state power company

ANGOLA: Total contract for FMC; CONGO-B: Non-commercial well on La Noumbi; EGYPT: Successful test of Circle’s Al-Amir SE-5 well; EGYPT: Two finds for Dana Gas; GABON: M&P confirms new play in Onal licence; GUINEA: Repsol out?; TUNISIA: Petroceltic to drill on Ksar Hadada; DANA PETROLEUM: Egypt drilling plans; SAN LEON ENERGY: Buying Island Oil & Gas

One of the first African utilities to use a computer-based system for reading meters and logging customer usage, EDM is upgrading the handheld units used by its meter readers with the purchase of some 250 of DAP Technologies’ CE3240B rugged handheld computers.

Circle Oil has signed a petroleum agreement with the Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (Onhym) for the Lalla Mimouna Nord and Lalla Mimouna Sud exploration permits in the Rharb Basin.

Cement producer Ciments du Maroc is planning to install a 5MW wind farm to power its Laayoune factory. L’Economiste daily quoted Ciments du Maroc director general Abdallah Harma as saying the plant

Some MD1,586m ($199m) was invested in hydrocarbons exploration in 2009, of which MD1,497m was spent by Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (Onhym’)s partners, according to

ESKOM: Study urges asset sale; GENERAL CABLE: South Africa expansion; KENGEN: Andritz gets $52m contract; KPLC: Expected price hike; MASEN: New Moroccan solar energy chief; NUPLANET: Focus on CDMs to bring mini-hydro on stream

The much-anticipated launch of a hydrocracker at Morocco’s main Mohammedia refinery has been delayed until February or March, senior Ministry

CAPE VERDE: Martifer wins solar contract; EGYPT: Talkha CCGT tenders; EGYPT: Feedwater heaters for supercritical plant; GHANA: Substation work; LIBYA: Generation policy rethink, nuclear options; MOROCCO: Spanish win HEP revamp work; TUNISIA: Cap Bon IPP prequalification; TUNISIA: Bizerte IPP bidding

IOCs are attracted to the Maghreb and Egypt, but each market poses its own problems, writes John Hamilton. While gas developments and exploration are advancing in Tunisia, and Morocco remains investor-friendly but seems to lack the resources to be more than a marginal play, international oil companies are facing a tougher time in the Maghreb than many expected when they entered promising exploration and production plays in Algeria and Libya.

Decarbonisation of the global energy industry should mean a massive shift from conventional thermal power and even hydroelectric power to solar, wind and other renewables, as well as nuclear power, carbon capture and storage and biofuels, write Jon Marks and David Slater

MOROCCO: AfDB loan for T&D; NIGERIA: GE, Rockson win Kaduna power plant contract; SOUTH AFRICA: Westinghouse fuel contract for Koeberg; SOUTH AFRICA: Medupi contract for Areva

AFREN: Share placing; CAITHNESS PETROLEUM: Cabre takes new Moroccan block; CAMAC/PACIFIC ASIA: Long-term relationship starts with stake in Nigeria’s Oyo field; Hydrocarbons measurements