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Australia’s Rialto Energy has awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to Petrofac for the Gazelle field development in Block CI-202.

As Tanzania’s gas finds mount up, there is increasing confusion over infrastructure development. Plans to expand capacity at the Songas processing plant are on hold as the government pushes a Chinese-funded $1.2bn scheme for a pipeline from Mtwara to Dar es Salaam, to connect to the existing Songas pipeline.

As the pace of new projects finally starts to pick up, administrative delays at the Department of Energy mean the deadline for renewable energy bidders to reach financial close has been moved back, writes Dan Marks

World Bank Group (WBG)’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has agreed to invest €28.1 ($35m) in Thika Power Ltd to help develop an 87MW heavy fuel oil plant near Nairobi.

Elections to the constituent assembly, which will appoint a new executive and a 60-person committee to write post-Qadhafi Libya’s constitution, will now take place on 7 July.

President Goodluck Jonathan will submit the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill to the Nigerian Senate by the end of this month, petroleum resources minister Diezani Alison-Madueke told journalists at the fifth Opec Seminar in Vienna on 13 June.

While Eni has announced increased reserves estimates, Anadarko has made another gas discovery in Offshore Area 1, increasing the likelihood that Shell will come back with a higher bid for Cove Energy

ANGOLA: End-August election date; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Nguema Lima promoted; TUNISIA: Ennahda-led government to implement EITI

The Mines and Energy Ministry has approved a farm-out agreement for Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas to bring in Bermuda-registered Azimuth Ltd to take 20% in its licences.

ANGOLA: GE service agreement for Angola LNG; CAMEROON: Pipeline progress; MOROCCO: Benkirane grasps the fuel subsidy nettle

There was no doubt amongst the ministers and senior corporate executives speaking at the fifth Opec Seminar in Vienna on 13 June that fossil fuels would remain the dominant source of energy for the world in the period up to and beyond 2035.

ALGERIA: Sonatrach plans offshore well, Hassi R’Mel drilling; KENYA: Seismic on L6; GABON: McDermott to design new production platforms

There is less enthusiasm for the Mauritanian onshore, where Germany’s Wintershall has surrendered its Ta5 and Ta6 licences in the Taoudeni Basin, saying it does not believe they hold commercial resources.

Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) is evaluating bids for the expansion of Hwange Power Station units 7 and 8 following a 5 June deadline for final bids. A total of 11 bidders have prequalified for the expansion of the Hwange and Kariba South plants, but no date has been set for final bids for Kariba.

The security of main hydrocarbons producing zones is increasingly being questioned, but the interim authorities have stuck to their insistence that no foreign security operators will be deployed at facilities, writes John Hamilton