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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.
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
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.
Renewables projects are attracting strong interest from financiers, with Morocco offering particularly strong incentives for investors, writes John Hamilton
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
The much-anticipated launch of a hydrocracker at Morocco’s main Mohammedia refinery has been delayed until February or March, senior Ministry
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
