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Issue 242 - 01 November 2012

Dr Congo: Coal-fired unit to supply mines

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Gécamines is planning a 500MW coal-fired power plant in Katanga province, its managing director, Ahmed Kalej Nkand, told Spintelligent’s late October Ipad event in Lubumbashi.

DR Congo
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South Africa still intends to play a prominent role in Grand Inga, but other players are also seeking to tap the hydroelectric dam complex’s vast potential, writes François Misser with Jon Marks

DR Congo | Nigeria
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Kinshasa is keen to promote the hydrocarbons potential of the Cuvette Centrale. But some of the geologists who have studied the largely unexplored region are less sure that a bonanza awaits.

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The cabinet has approved a draft treaty between South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo for the development of the Grand Inga hydro project. The draft was drawn up by a technical committee of officials from the two countries following the signing of a memorandum of understanding by their presidents in November.

DR Congo | South Africa
Issue 238 - 07 September 2012

DR Congo: Ophir pulls out of Block V

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London-based SOCO International has increased its interest in the Block V licence to 85% by acquiring the 46.75% interest held by Ophir Energy.

DR Congo
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Controversial South African businessman Moto Mabanga has failed in his bid to win more money from Ophir Energy for helping the company to secure acreage offshore Tanzania

DR Congo | Tanzania
Issue 233 - 15 June 2012

Middleman trouble for Ophir

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A London court hearing has thrown light on the relations between a frontier exploration-focused international oil company (IOC) and an African business partner, who helped deliver up three highly prospective blocks that were later farmed out to a bigger player.

DR Congo | Tanzania
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President Kabila is looking to a new government, unprecedented oil production, a Chinese-style Special Economic Zone and a strategic treaty with South Africa to relaunch the Grand Inga project and rekindle international support for his malfunctioning regime

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ALGERIA: Siemens maintenance contract at Hassi R’Mel; EGYPT: Alstom substation contract; RWANDA/DR CONGO: Ruzizi road contract relaunched; SOUTH AFRICA: O&M contract for Wärtsilä

Egypt | DR Congo | Rwanda | Algeria | South Africa
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DR CONGO/GABON: New lines for Total fields; GABON: Bowleven sells up

DR Congo | Gabon
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Société Nationale d’Electricité (Snel) is considering importing power from neighbouring Republic of Congo to alleviate shortages in the mining province of Katanga.

DR Congo | Congo Brazzaville
Issue 228 - 30 March 2012

COUNTRIES AND MARKETS

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Cameroon is on target to double crude production to 100,000 b/d in 2012; Block 5 operator SOCO International has announced its proposed work plan for exploration on Block 5; Premier Oil has announced 2011 results for its Mauritania operation; Afren said that, following three drill stem tests, the offshore Okoro East discovery announced in January had yielded high-quality 38º-40ºAPI crude in excellent reservoir sands

Cameroon | DR Congo | Mauritania | Nigeria
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Mines minister Martin Kabwelulu Labilo kept his job in the interim government formed by new prime minister Louis Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengbo on 9 March, and was also granted the hydrocarbons portfolio

DR Congo
Issue 228 - 30 March 2012

COUNTRIES AND MARKETS

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The government has announced funding from the African Development Fund and Japanese Agency for International Co-operation (Jica) to finance its electricity transmission and distribution grid; Andritz on 19 March announced that its Andritz Hydro unit had received an estimated E45m ($59m) order to rebuild and rehabilitate two more 178MW units at the Inga II hydropower plant; Companies have until 30 April to bid for a number of lots of African Development Bank (AfDB)-funded equipment; Companies have until 23 April to prequalify for an African Development Fund grant-financed rural electrification project; The US Trade and Development Agency has awarded a $666,619 grant to Société Nationale des Transports et de la Logistique for a feasibility study on a 1.5MW solar PV rooftop pilot project in Mohammedia; There have been reports from Zimbabwe that Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) in mid-March halted exports to troubled state utility Zesa Holdings; Agence Sénégalaise de l’Electrification Rurale (ASER) is looking to draw up a shortlist of six consultants to oversee the conception and implementation of a project to offer the Louga-Kébémer-Linguère region as a concession

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The prospects of more power from the Inga dam complex offer hope for Congolese and regional consumers, but these are not short-term developments – and meanwhile the struggle continues to overhaul utility Snel

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