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The World Bank has approved $15.4m of grant funding for an emergency energy project to support state power and water utility Régie de Production et de Distribution d’Eau et d’Electricité (Regideso) and to prevent a repeat of the severe power cuts of summer 2009.
The politically complex redevelopment of the Ruzizi River cascade’s power schemes seems finally to be taking shape, writes David Slater
REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Third production well on Azurite field; LIBYA: NOC announces six discoveries; BURUNDI: Surestream contracts RPS for EIA; EGYPT: Second Matruh find for Apache; LIBYA: Neptune order thought to mark start of Gazprom project; LIBYA: Poles launch drilling programme; MAURITANIA: Dana, Petronas to drill; NIGERIA: Acergy contract; TANZANIA: BG confirms Ophir farm-in
African Capitalisation Fund to strengthen banks; AfDB funding for IDC; AfDB awards $15m grant to aid Burundi’s ERSP III; SNR, Denton Wilde Sapte to merge
BURUNDI: Substation rehab, grid protection; CAPE VERDE: Lighting supply; DR CONGO: Snel management support contract; MALI: O&M contract for HFO plant; MALI: 25MW unit planned for Taoussa dam; MOZAMBIQUE: European capacity-building contract; MOZAMBIQUE: Multi-purpose dams to power centre; NIGER: Kandadji dam studies and supervision order; TOGO: Power rehab tender
ALGERIA/MOROCCO: 1,000MW, 400kV interconnection; BURUNDI: Spare parts contract; EGYPT: World Bank lines up Giza North CCGT financing; EGYPT: Nuclear power plant purchase; LIBYA: Gecol asks Hyundai to build Tripoli West; MADAGASCAR: Rural electrification equipment tender; SUDAN: Khartoum wants nuclear ‘training’ reactor
UK private company Surestream Petroleum has just been awarded Burundi Block B, on the north-east side of Lake Tanganyika, in addition to Block D which it already holds. Surestream, which sponsors the Burundi national football team, was founded in
State water and power utility Regie de Production et de Distribution d’Eau et d’Electricité (Regideso) seeks bids by 17 August for the rehabilitation of five hydropower plants with a combined installed capacity of 19.6MW and two distribution networks.
CAMEROON: US bauxite miner seeks power; EGYPT: Ain Sokhna financing; KENYA: Wind map tender; KENYA: Wind turbine tender; MOZAMBIQUE: Coal India wins concessions on two blocks; RWANDA/BURUNDI: Interconnection loan; SOUTH AFRICA: Alstom contract for Koeberg; ZAMBIA: Kariba North construction launched
The Ministry of Economy, Finance and Development Co-operation is seeking bids for a contract to supply, install and commission electrical equipment for the hydroelectric micro power plant and rehabilitation of the power supply at tea estates belonging to the Burundi Tea Office (OTB).
WBG grant for power and water
Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania have requested funding from the African Development Bank and World Bank Group for the joint development of the 61.5MW Rusumo Falls hydropower project on the Kagera River in Tanzania.
