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The latest venture of serial entrepreneurs Philippe Edmonds and Andrew Groves, Africa Oilfield Logistics, established to invest in the oil and gas logistics support industry in sub-Saharan Africa, has bought a 49% interest in Ardan Risk & Support Services, an oilfields and logistics business with operations in Kenya, Ethiopia and Mauritius. The deal is the first for Africa Oilfield, which has been granted exclusivity for 180 days with a view to entering into an agreement to acquire the remaining 51%.

The government is in talks with India’s Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd about a $2bn oil refinery that could be operational by 2015

French wind and solar energy producer Aerowatt has submitted an environmental impact assessment for an 18MW wind farm at Plaine-des-Roches in the north of the island.

South African marketer Engen Petroleum Limited has signed share purchase agreements for Chevron’s downstream interests in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean.

EGYPT: IFC invests in Egyptian Refining Company; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Refinery progress; KENYA: Enoc enters downstream; MAURITIUS: Products supply deal renewed; NIGERIA: Lagos seals refinery deal

After a difficult period of collapsing financing and often disappointing results, African biofuels investors believe markets are set to improve so they can launch new export and domestic fuel and power projects, write François Misser and Jon Marks

Cover Energy AIM listing; Support for high-speed telecoms; World Bank lends $50m for infrastructure; China may develop Lamu deep-water port

Eight African states have applied to the United Nations to extend their territorial waters beyond the 200-mile limit, while the other eligible coastal states have put in preliminary claims (AE 137/21). Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles, Côte d’Ivoire and Namibia

In Salah substations; OMVS seeks studies of hydropower projects; Sahanivotry HEP start-up; USTDA grant for waste-to-energy; Wind farm tender, AfDB considers funding for Buseruka HEP

The International Finance Corporation has announced that it will invest E7m in I&P Capital II, a private equity fund that finances small and medium enterprises in the Indian Ocean region.