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Hélios Energie chief executive Karim Megherbi told a mid-November workshop in Brussels that the French solar company had lined up a pipeline of 100MW of photovoltaic (PV) projects in sub-Saharan

While much has been made of the push by Gulf-based companies into African and other frontier exploration and production (E&P) territories, establishing themselves in unfamiliar environments has proved more problematic than many thought

Tullow Oil has agreed new production-sharing contract arrangements offshore Mauritania, where the company has identified new potential after the disappointment of the Chinguetti field. Tullow now refers to the West Africa Transform Margin play as the Mauri-Tano Trend, referring to an area

Australia’s Roc Oil has sold its offshore Mauritania interests to Tullow Oil for $4m as part of its strategy of pulling out of Africa. Roc has interests of between 2% and 5.49% in offshore Mauritanian blocks, including a 3.25% interest in the producing Chinguetti oil field.

Kpong hydro rehabilitation; Power sector reform; AFD backs solar power; New units for Kainji

Hess quits West Med Block 1; New Aker facility; Vessel charter for Vaalco; Chinguetti decline slows

A group of mining companies have joined forces with the state power utility to develop a power project based on gas from the offshore Banda field.

The Gharabi-1 commitment well on offshore Block 6 has been plugged and abandoned after failing to find hydrocarbons. The well was drilled by operator Petronas, which is planning to pull out of Mauritania as part of a general withdrawal from Africa

President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has named a new oil energy and mines minister, Taleb Ould Abdi Vall, who had been head of state mining company Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière (SNIM) since August 2009.

Dana Petroleum’s Cormoran well has found gas at a lower depth than the Pelican discovery, potentially opening up a new play in northern Mauritania’s offshore.

The international upstream arm of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) has a mandate to increase its reserves and production mainly through acquisitions across Africa and elsewhere

Industry sources say Total may have made a major gas find in the Taoudeni Basin, which stretches across Mauritania and Mali.

ANGOLA: Clov contract for FMC; ANGOLA: Cabinda appraisal well successful; ANGOLA: West Gemini drilling for Total; MAURITANIA: Dana spuds well on Cormoran gas prospect; MOROCCO: Tarfaya oil shale project progresses; MOZAMBIQUE: Sasol signs for onshore gas block; NIGERIA: Hardy sells up to focus on India; NIGERIA/SAO TOME: JDZ partners discuss second phase; SEYCHELLES: Seismic deal for EEZ; TANZANIA: M&P drills on Kianika; TUNISIA: Lambouka well

A growing number of industry executives are making their way to previously unfashionable Nouakchott as rising demand for electricity is driving a push for more generation capacity. The prospect of a significant gas-fired project

REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Nkossa contract extension; EGYPT: Technip contract for WDDM expansion; MAURITANIA: Taoudeni well makes slow progress; NIGERIA: Amenam contract extension; NIGERIA: Gas find for Conoil, Total; Chariot: Namibia seismic ready for inspection; MAUREL & PROM: Bullish on Nigerian acquisition; SEADRILL: Delivery of deep-water drillship West Gemini; SONANGOL: Venezuela move