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The Lomé-based African Biofuel & Renewable Energy Company (Abrec) has awarded a contract to Sinohydro to build a 20MWp solar plant at Gardete, 8km from Bissau, as well as a 30kV connection to the Bôr substation. Abrec said six eligible bids were received in an international tender that closed in May last year.Work is expected to take 16 months.

The Organisation for the Development of the Gambia River (OMVG) has given a contract to a joint venture of Portugal’s COBA Consultores de Engenharia e Ambiete and the Portuguese subsidiary of France’s Artelia Eau & Environnement to carry out feasibility and detailed engineering studies for a 20MW run-of-river hydropower plant on the Corubal River in the Saltinho area of central Guinea-Bissau.

The Lomé-based African Biofuel and Renewable Energy Company has extended the closing date for a tender to supply a 20MWc solar photovoltaic (PV) plant at Bissau and two 1MWc plants at Gabu and Canchungo. Bids are now due by 8 May. Lot 1 comprises construction of a 20MWc solar plant at Gardete, 8km from Bissau, as well as a 30kV connection to the Bôr substation. Bidders are invited to offer proposals for energy storage options.

Svenska Petroleum Exploration has given Aberdeen-based Exceed a well-management contract for Guinea-Bissau’s first deep-water exploration well. The 12-month contract is valued at around $4m and follows a similar contract for Australia’s Far offshore Gambia. Far has a 21.4% stake in Svenska’s blocks 2, 4A and 5A in Guinea-Bissau.

The 37MW Metin Bey powership has arrived in Guinea-Bissau, Turkey’s Karadeniz said on 19 February. Karadeniz’s subsidiary Karpowership signed an agreement with the government in October, finalising a power purchase agreement with state utility Empresa de Eletricidade e Aguas da Guiné-Bissau earlier this year.

EDP Internacional, Aguas de Portugal Internacional and Portuguese consultancy Leadership Business Consulting have won an international tender to provide technical assistance in the modernisation and restructuring of Electricidade e Aguas da Guiné-Bissau (EAGB).The agreement for the €3.9m ($4.4m) consultancy project, to be funded by the World Bank, was signed on 21 November in Bissau. The three-year contract will enable the state-owned company to manage its resources and customer relationships more efficiently.

The government signed a contract with Turkey’s Karpowership on 11 October to boost power supply to the capital, Bissau. The contract is for five years, with an option to renew, and is for 30MW, with 18MW to be supplied in a first phase. The O Democrata news site quoted an official of state utility Electricidade e Aguas da Guiné-Bissau (EAGB) as saying energy production will start at the end of December or in January 2019.

The Ministry of Energy, Industry and Natural Resources and national utility Electricidade e Aguas da Guiné-Bissau (EAGB) are making procurement documents available for a project to improve the electricity distribution system in the capital Bissau.

The government is discussing switching its 15MW power supply contract with Aggreko from diesel to heavy fuel oil (HFO) to reduce the risk of theft. Speaking after a meeting with a technical mission from the World Bank on 18 June, prime minister Aristides Gomes said the government was also considering bringing in a power barge. Diesel theft has been blamed for a spate of recent power outages.

The West African Development Bank (BOAD) has approved a loan of CFA25bn ($45m) for a 20MWp solar photovoltaic power plant at Bissau and two 1MWp PV plants at Gabu and Canchungo. The bank said the plants would provide energy for some 500,000 people and prevent 24,100 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.

The government of Guinea-Bissau has signed a contract with France’s Delmas for the construction of a 15MW thermal power plant in Bor, a suburb of Bissau. The plant will be built with financing of nearly CFA16bn ($29m) from the West African Development Bank (Boad). The plant is expected to be completed and delivered within 18 months.Minister of state for energy and industry Florentino Mendes Pereira said the major problem facing the country’s energy sector was a lack of infrastructure.

Portugal’s Efacec has won a €10m ($11m) contract from Eletricidade e Aguas da Guiné-Bissau (EAGB) to double the installed electrical capacity of Bissau. The contract, awarded following an international tender, includes the construction of two 30/10kV substations in Bor and Brà districts and a 6.2km line to link a new 100MW thermal power station in Bor to the capital.

The Organisation for the Development of the Gambia River Basin (OMVG) is inviting expressions of interest from consultants by 16 March for a feasibility study for the construction and operation of an estimated 20MW run-of-river hydropower plant on the Corubal River in the Saltinho area of central Guinea-Bissau (AE 340/6). The project design currently envisages the construction of a second dam downstream at Cussilinta with a hydropower plant of 34MW.

The Organisation for the Development of the Gambia River Basin (OMVG) is set to issue a tender for feasibility, environmental impact and engineering studies for the construction and operation of a run-of-river hydropower plant with an estimated capacity of 20MW on the Corubal River in the Saltinho area in central Guinea-Bissau. The studies for the Saltinho project, which is to be sited some 100km south-east of the capital, Bissau, have the technical and financial support of the African Development Bank through the Sustainable Energy Fund (SEFA), the United Nations Fund for Industrial Development, the Economic Community of West African States and the Austrian Development Bank.

Australia’s Woodside Energy has agreed with Impact Oil and Gas to take 65% in the AGC Profond Block in the joint development area between Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. Woodside will take over as operator. Impact will retain 20% and the Entreprise AGC, jointly owned by Senegal and Guinea Bissau, will have 15%. The offshore AGC Profond production-sharing contract (PSC) covers 6,700km² in water depths ranging from 1,400 to 3,700 metres, located west of the Dome Flore and Dome Gea oil accumulations and to the south of Cairn Energy’s recent Fan-1 and SNE-1 and 2 oil discoveries. Impact was awarded the licence in October 2014, and acquired legacy 2D and 3D seismic data.