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President Joseph Kabila Kabange has finally approved all outstanding oil contracts, according to a presidential decree published in the official gazette dated 22 June. But while closing one set of controversies over resources contract awards, Kabila has opened up another with the decision to award Lake Albert blocks 1 and 2 to two obscure British Virgin Islands-based outfits called Caprikat Ltd and Foxwhelp Ltd,

Faced with a rise in demand from Zambia’s mining sector, Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) is looking to expand its generation capacity

SOCO to drill next month; Gasol diversifying into GTP; Aegean, Groundstar revise West Kom Ombo terms

Brussels-based publisher André Versaille éditeur has produced a 240-page guide to Democratic

Companies are still waiting on critical decisions - ultimately by President Joseph Kabila Kabange - on a number of the disputed production-sharing agreements (PSAs) that have been awarded, but never ratified, in the Albertine Graben on the Ugandan border (AE 185/1).

With progress on the rehabilitation of Inga’s existing hydropower units, Snel is looking to significantly raise its generation and transmission capacity, François Misser reports from Inga and Kinshasa

The Cuvette Centrale (Central Basin) is attracting growing interest from the government and industry, sources in Kinshasa told African Energy. According to Ministry of Hydrocarbons expert José Bafala Itumbela, the 800,000km2 Cuvette Centrale covering the Bandundu, Equator, Eastern Kasai and

ANGOLA: Cabinda service contract for M-I SWACO; CAMEROON: Polarcus starts seismic survey for Noble; REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Eni extends; DR CONGO: SOCO signs up Caroil rig; KENYA: Global, Dana and Woodside settle dispute; KENYA: Magadi seismic tender

AfDB Governors recommend 200% capital increase and New Clean Energy bonds; Regideso debt; Pride bribery allegations

Interest in West African hydrocarbons has focused primarily on offshore plays in recent years.

Société Nationale d’Electricité (Snel) has given ABB an order worth $107m to upgrade the 1,700km Inga-Kolwezi power transmission link, one of the world’s longest electricity transmission systems. ABB will refurbish the stations that convert alternating current to direct current and back on the 560MW link it built in 1982. The link uses high-voltage direct current technology to transmit power from the Inga Falls hydropower station on the Congo River to the mining district of Katanga and enables excess power to be exported to the Southern African Power Pool.

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

Imboulou dam inaugurated; SAPP tender; Nyabarongo financing signed; Landfill gas project

DR CONGO: Snel management contract; EGYPT: Power plant switchboards tender; EGYPT: Ain El Sokhna tender; REGIONAL: Power line progress; SIERRA LEONE: Worker demonstration; SOUTH AFRICA: Renewable energy boost; SUDAN: Egyptians mobilise cement plant project; UGANDA: Tariff cuts criticised for being too limited; ZAMBIA: Solar energy gets funding

ALGERIA: Sonatrach announces five new finds; ANGOLA: CLOV survey contract; DRC/RWANDA: Partners sought for Lake Kivu methane; EGYPT: Technip contract for WDDM; EGYPT: Premier completes NW Gemsa sale; EGYPT: Premier completes NW Gemsa sale; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Contract extension for Songa Saturn; GHANA: Well confirms southerly extent of Jubilee field ; KENYA: Block L8 3D seismic completed; NIGERIA: Total find on OPL 223