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The 47MW first phase of the Kékéli Gas project, involving a open cycle gas turbine, is expected to come online in May, François Xavier of Siemens told African Energy. A second 18MW combined cycle gas turbine is expected online in December.

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Issue 437 - 29 April 2021

Nigeria: Chinese permits restored

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President Muhammadu Buhari has reversed a government decision to revoke four oil permits from a unit of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec). Buhari approved the restoration of the licences to Addax Petroleum Corporation, as part of his commitment to “the rule of law and sanctity of contracts”, spokesman Garba Shehu said in a 23 April statement to Bloomberg.

Nigeria
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Like other Opec members, Algeria is promising a major conversion to renewable power, as the realities of the global energy transition register in even the more conservative oil producers. But this won’t stop Algiers ploughing ahead with a massively delayed procurement of gas-fired power or from giving under-performing state giants even more responsibilities, write John Hamilton, Jon Marks and our Algiers correspondent  

Algeria
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Total announced on 6 May it had started production from the Zinnia Phase 2 short-cycle project in Block 17, connected to the existing Pazflor floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit. The project includes the drilling of nine wells; output is expected to reach 40,000 b/d by mid-2022.

Angola
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Kenya is pushing ahead with plans for offshore licence auctions, following a 3D data acquisition contract signed with Houston-based Ion Geophysical Corp, announced in early April. Ion has an exclusive agreement with the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum for 3D multi-client programmes in offshore Kenya.

Kenya
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President Emmanuel Macron’s planned 18 May get-together of African leaders in Paris is intended to lead support for economies badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. On the formal agenda will be putting together major new financial support, including through International Monetary Fund special drawing rights and, possibly, a new round of debt cancellation.

Mozambique
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Senegal’s water and sanitation minister Serigne Mbaye Thiam confirmed the 140MW Gouina hydropower plant will be commissioned in September, during a recent site visit. The plant, situated at the Gouina Falls in the Kayes region of Mali, was initially scheduled for commercial operations in May 2021, however Covid-19-related issues resulted in construction delays.

Senegal | Mali
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After several years of delays, development of the 15MW Bor heavy fuel oil (HFO) power plant may be commissioned next year, according to project participants. The medium-speed plant, situated in a suburb of the capital Bissau, will be the first utility-scale facility owned by the state’s Eletricidade e Águas da Guiné-Bissau (EAGB).

Guinea-Bissau
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The start of commercial operations at the 20MW Kabu 16 hydropower plant on the Kabulantwa River in Cibitoke province, Burundi, has been pushed back to June 2022

Burundi
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Impact Oil & Gas’s farm-in deal in offshore South Africa, announced on 17 May, consolidates the UK independent’s access to sizeable acreage in ultra-deep water tracts of southern and eastern areas. Following government approval, Impact now owns a 90% working interest and operatorship of Area 2, with the remaining 10% held by Sliver Wave Energy.

Namibia | South Africa
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The 10MW Bangui Diesel II plant was completed this month, Tunisia’s Tragedel told African Energy. The plant was proposed in 2015 as part of the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Co-operation's medium-term 2016-30 investment programme as an additional plant to supplement the existing 6MW Bangui Diesel I.

Central African Republic
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) expects to solicit bids from 15 July, for award by end-2022, for a five-year contract in its $50m-99.9m estimated cost/amount range to assist the government in its efforts to meet increasing electricity demand and promote energy conservation.

Tunisia
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Construction of the 6MWp Freetown Solar Park solar PV plant was completed in April, project consultant Karim Nasser told African Energy. Nasser said Covid-19-related restrictions caused work to stop from March to November 2020, delaying the plant’s completion, but it has now been handed over to the government, which launched a tender for operation and maintenance (O&M) services in March.

Sierra Leone
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Sub-Saharan Africa has been worst hit as the Covid-19 pandemic emergency contributed to a major slowdown in new generation capacity, but analysis of projects recorded by African Energy Live Data suggests that long-running issues around financing and the slow pace of reforms have played their part in the downturn.

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The impact of structural reform and the energy transition is markedly different around the continent. North Africa experienced a sharp – if probably temporary – slowdown in the growth of renewables last year, when the Maghreb and Egypt accounted for 4.3GW of the 7.7GW added on the continent, including 3.1GW of new gas capacity. 

Libya | Algeria | Morocco | Tunisia | Western Sahara (under UN mandate)