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DP World on 21 October formally inaugurated the Kigali Logistics Platform (KLP), a dry port facility which aims to process cargo for the region. The facility, which has been operational since September 2018, has capacity of 50,000 20-foot equivalent units.DP World said the KLP had reduced truck turnaround time to three days from ten to 14 days previously. There are plans to extend the existing railways from Mombasa to Kampala and from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma so that they reach Kigali, with a cargo rail siding located at KLP.

Part of the Muglad Basin, the 5A concession extends across central Unity State, into Warrap State to the west and Jonglei State to the east. The 54km2 Thar Jath field has estimated reserves of 250m bbls, according to a US Geological Survey report in 2009.

By revoking Namcor's deal to import fuel, the mines and energy minister has engineered a turnaround in the way fuel is imported and distributed, with significant political ramifications, writes Our Windhoek Correspondent. Mines and energy minister Isak Katali in October revoked National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia's mandate to import half of Namibia's fuel - and then softened the blow

Faced with fuel security issues following the independence of South Sudan, Sudan has started using 10% ethanol mixed into petrol and plans to expand production for export. “Ethanol has been formally recognised as a fuel in Sudan,” Kenana Sugar Company managing director Mohamed El Mardi El Tegani told the Brazil-Arab News Agency during a conference on food security in the Arab world on 20 May in Khartoum. 



Two consortia bidding to build a 60,000 b/d refinery near Lake Albert submitted final bids in December, and an announcement is expected soon. African Energy understands that, having initially favoured the Russian bid, the Ugandan government, or more particularly President Yoweri Museveni, is now backing the South Koreans because of US and EU sanctions relating to the former.

TUNISIA: Perenco inaugurates new pipeline; NIGERIA: Total starts Akpo gas supply to NLNG

Bahrain-based Islamic investment bank Gulf Finance House (GFH) has successfully raised equity to finance construction of Energy City Libya (ECL), the Jamahiriya’s biggest private real

Saudi Arabia has signed a memorandum of intent to study a potential oil refinery and petrochemicals complex in South Africa. The initial work will be carried out by national companies Saudi Aramco and PetroSA, while Aramco and the Johannesburg-based Central Energy Fund are cooperating to establish investment terms and a long-term energy partnership. A location for the proposed project has yet to be finalised.

BP has announced plans to sell its marketing business in Namibia, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana following a strategic review. The review of BP’s refining and marketing businesses in southern Africa showed that the company

The Algesco joint venture of GE Oil & Gas with state companies Sonatrach and Sonelgaz has opened a new service centre at Boufarik, 35km from Algiers

Libya’s new Anti-Corruption Commission plans to investigate growing claims of oil smuggling and other abuses linked to crude sales. But the lack of reliable data will make the task harder, writes John Hamilton.The Anti-Corruption Commission established by the General National Congress in March is planning an investigation into allegations that crude oil has been smuggled out of Libya and that other abuses linked to crude sales may have taken place. These accusations have been made against both the government and the tribal group which has controlled the Sidra, Ras Lanuf and Zueitina

Production at the Chinese-built Zinder refinery in southern Niger will begin this month, and the government is seeing growing interest from explorers, according to Ousseini Assane Boureima, director of exploration at the Mines and Energy Ministry.

Originally launched to export gas from Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria, Gasol is now pursuing a new strategy based on supplying gas within West Africa. The company has announced plans to station a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) in Cotonou harbour, to supply gas to Benin and Togo, replacing supplies promised, but not delivered, by the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP).

The government on 15 October ended Sonatrach affiliate Naftal’s monopoly over the sector. The OMEL joint venture between Indian oil major ONGC and Lakshmi Mittal’s Mittal Energy has indicated that there is life in its venture to set up a first refinery in Nigeria.

Saudi billionaire Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi has promised funds to turn around Société Marocaine d’Industrie de Raffinage (Samir), but not all shareholders are satisfied that the embattled Moroccan refiner’s problems are solved following a 16 October extraordinary general meeting. The Casablanca daily L’Economiste reported some shareholders leaving the meeting “speechless”. Others said they needed further answers to where the money was coming from, as Samir agreed a MD10bn ($1.04bn) capital increase.