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BOOTS & COOTS: North African contracts; CIRCLE OIL: Moroccan gas production brings first revenues

ANGOLA: Wärtsilä to power cement works; ANGOLA: New capacity; DR CONGO: Snel seeks study of Nzilo 2 HEP; MADAGASCAR: Sinohydro contrac; MOROCCO: Bidders for Safi IPP coal plant named; RWANDA: Bhel to build Nyabarongo; SENEGAL: Nuclear talks with Sarko; SOUTH AFRICA: Voith Siemens to equip Ingula

ESKOM: Godsell confirmed as next chairman; ONE: Small hydro tender postponed

PPL Shipyard wins rig order; Repsol renews EPSAs for two blocks; New Morocco licensing; Drilling planned in Mozambique; Russians enter Sierra Leone

EOIs sought for solar IPP in the Sahara; World Bank infrastructure investment study

Morocco’s Office National de l’Electricité and Algeria’s Sonelgaz signed two agreements; China signs financing accords for grid rehab; ONE calls for lights out, Gulf governments chip in; Mohammedia plant rehab; Portugal to fund clean energy; JBIC loan for Eskom; Kyocera donates solar systems to schools; : Consultant sought for Indian-funded Isimba HPP

Morocco’s Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (Onhym) has completed its first seismic survey in the disputed Western Sahara (AE 112/24). If the results of the survey performed by France’s CGG Veritas on Boujdour onshore Blocks 118 and 119 are positive, the company plans to drill an exploration well.

Former GNPC head jailed; Winfield wins approvals for refinery project; Abu Dhabi plans refinery; Chemical distribution deal; Petronas puts refinery on hold

The number of wind power schemes built, under way or planned in Egypt and Morocco points to the enthusiasm with which North African electricity consumers have embraced renewables. Jon Marks reports from Marrakech on the upturn in renewables projects’ fortunes.

WBG post-conflict funding; IFC microfinance programme; EADB Chinese credit; World Bank loan for ONE

AIM-listed Tower Resources has bought out Comet Petroleum, a related company which owns 50% of two exploration licences in the disputed Western Sahara (AE 97/19). The Guelta and Bojador licences were awarded in March 2006, following a licensing round organised by the Polisario Front liberation movement’s government-in-exile the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

WAPP interconnection loan; Japan aid pledges; French line of credit for ONE;

Faced with a fuel bill that has risen to a projected MD64bn ($8.7bn) this year from MD27bn in 2004, Morocco is looking to increase the role of renewable energy in the country’s generation mix.

REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Brazilians push for biofuels projects; EGYPT: USTDA grant for petrochems; MOROCCO: Samir financing

The high global cost of oil and gas exploration has slowed the pace of work on some of the Gulf of Guinea’s smaller plays, and several blocks secured at the height of industry excitement about the region are now changing hands as the original licensees review their positions. Many of the newcomers are Australians, originally tempted into Africa’s east coast and now looking west. For a number of players,