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Angola’s ambitions to develop its gas resources took a step forward in late July when the partners in the New Gas Consortium said they had reached a final investment decision (FID) on the Quiluma and Maboqueiro gas project.

Sonatrach’s new production-sharing contract with Eni, TotalEnergies and Occidental Petroleum for a 100-well campaign to restore and boost output in Berkine Basin blocks 404 and 208 points to a further upturn of activity in Algeria, where the national oil company’s head envisages ‘three or four’ more big upstream contracts by end-2022, writes Dominic Dudley.

Bioethanol producer Sunbird Bioenergy is due to start trials in August to blend petroleum with ethanol produced from cassava feedstock, with Indeni Petroleum Refinery as the off-taker.

FMO has signed a $750,000 ‘repayable development contribution’ for AEE Power Ventures, drawn from the Dutch development finance institution’s Access to Energy Fund.

President Macky Sall’s ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition suffered a setback in the 31 July election to the 165-seat National Assembly, as the opposition alliance of Ousmane Sonko and Khalifa Sall’s Yewwi Askan Wi and nonagenarian ex-president Abdoulaye Wade’s Wallu polled well, introducing coalition politics for the first time.

A confidential United Nations Group of Experts report, leaked on 4 August, included apparent evidence that the Rwandan military had been operating in Democratic Republic of Congo since last November, supporting the re-emergence of the Tutsi-led M23 militia.

The Ministry of Finance on 19 August invited investors to submit expressions of interest (EoIs) for the acquisition of up to 100% interest in eight state-owned enterprises (SOE) operating in the sugar industry.

Mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe plans to create a new state-owned company – working title Generation 2 – to redevelop three of state utility Eskom’s coal-fired plants by converting them into gas-to-power units.

 The Public Utility Regulatory Commission (Purc) has set the following electricity prices per kWh for consumers as of 1 September.

London AIM-listed Savannah Energy’s Nigeria-based subsidiary Accugas has signed an agreement with Notore Chemical Industries to supply the Onne, Rivers State-based company with up to 10 mcf/d of gas for one year, with the option to extend the deal.

As the anniversary of Sudan’s 25 October 2021 coup approaches, General Abdel-Fatah Burhan’s efforts to re-establish a military-led framework that can secure western funding while also keeping ties with powerful Russian and Gulf allies continues with little expectation of imminent success. That is bad news for a country whose eviscerated economy was hoping for lift-off last year, as the United States began to wind down sanctions and allow debt relief.

InfraCo Africa, part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), is investing $43m in the Climate, Energy Access and Resilience (Clear) Fund, which is advised by Helios Investment Partners. InfraCo and Helios had said during COP26 last November that they were working to set up the new pan-African fund, to raise more than $350m for investment into sustainable infrastructure and businesses.

The Public Utilities Corporation (PUC) is seeking developers to build four 1.6MW or three 2MW diesel generators at its Praslin power station in Baie Ste Anne.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on 15 September between Morocco’s Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (Onhym), Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) and the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to progress the 7,000km Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) project.

London- and Ghana-listed Tullow Oil announced better than expected H1 2022 results on 14 September, with 60,900 boe/d working interest production, of which its Jubilee and Tweneboa, Enyenra, Ntomme (Ten) fields in Ghana contributed 30,800 boe/d and 12,500 boe/d respectively.