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Aliko Dangote’s eventual 650,000 b/d capacity plant has received 6m barrels of crude to date and is about to start producing diesel, aviation fuel and liquified petroleum gas.

Nigeria
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The United Arab Emirates has stepped in to finance Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s long-desired oil refinery, as the UAE ramps up its sub-Saharan business activity. Junior foreign minister Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Nahyan Al-Nahyan has been making yet more visits around the continent, also taking in Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola’s Cabinda enclave in January.

DR Congo | Angola | Uganda
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First exported in 1964 from a then Royal Dutch/Shell project in Algerian hub Arzew, liquefied natural gas (LNG) was sometimes thought a marginal product during oil’s heyday. But over the past two decades it has come to be seen as an increasingly important energy transition fuel; its consumption produces around half the CO2 emissions of coal.

Issue 195 - 09 October 2010

NIGERIA: SacOil JV on OML 115

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South Africa’s SacOil (South Africa Congo Oil Company) has formed a joint venture with Energy Equity Resources (EER) on OML 115 in the onshore Niger Delta. SacOil said the JV formed part of its strategy of seeking producing and near-producing oil and gas fields in Africa

Nigeria
Issue 198 - 19 November 2010

NOC loses out in gas pricing debate

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The decision to agree a domestic gas price linked to the Zeebrugge hub spot price, reported by African Energy in late October, appears to be a setback for National Oil Corporation chairman Shukri Ghanem (AE 196/19). According to one well-informed industry analyst who has been following the negotiations, the formula for setting the price which will be paid to gas-producing

Libya
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Vancouver-based Winfield Resources has been advocating projects across north-west Africa where few downstream players yet venture. So far, most of its …………………..

Mauritania
Issue 213 - 16 July 2011

GNPC details gas pipeline plans

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Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has published details of its proposed infrastructure project to transport gas from Tullow Oil’s offshore Jubilee

Ghana
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South Africa’s latest debt downgrades add to the challenges facing the LNG-to-power procurement programme. The programme is technically difficult, with major questions about how to structure it, particularly given the government’s reluctance to accept a dollar element within the power tariff. The reduced capacity of gas set out in the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan had already made securing an affordable tariff difficult and increased cost of debt will exacerbate the issue. Meanwhile, Eskom’s weakness as an offtaker and the challenge of securing credit enhancement or guarantees for large projects make reform of the utility still more urgent.

South Africa
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The government is in talks with Russia’s RusGazEngineering on a project to build a second refinery at Limbé. The Sonara refinery was completed in 1981 and has a capacity of 45,000 b/d, but is effectively bankrupt due to government payment arrears. A delegation from the Russian company visited Cameroon from 28 November to 2 December and signed a letter of intent covering feasibility studies for the refinery, as well as power transmission lines, a products pipeline and urban water supply schemes.

Cameroon
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South Sudan has shut down much of its oil production amid a row with Khartoum over transit fees for its use of the pipeline to South Sudan, and added to tensions by signing an agreement with Kenya for a pipeline from Juba to LamuJuba plugs wells and threatens to export through Kenya as tensions with Khartoum escalate

South Sudan
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Brahms Oil Refineries has appointed the Lagos-based Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) as financial adviser for the development of a petroleum refining and storage infrastructure project at Kamsar port. The project consists of petroleum storage and transportation infrastructure as part of a 12,000 b/d modular refining facility. Brahms Oil Refineries, based in the UAE, is part of Brahms Group SA, a Swiss-based investment management company focused on developing projects in West Africa.

Guinea
Issue 142 - 05 July 2008

Ethanol project

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Brazil’s BNDES development bank is financing a project to grow sugar cane in northern Ghana to produce ethanol for export to Sweden. Ghana’s Daily Graphic said planting on 27,000 hectares of land at Makango in the Northern Region would start in September.

Ghana
Issue 244 - 29 November 2012

NOC split could boost Benghazi

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Faced with strikes by oil workers seeking greater autonomy in eastern Libya, new oil and gas minister Abdelbari Ali Laroussi has suggested splitting National Oil Corporation (NOC) in two, with refining and petrochemicals operations based in Benghazi.

Libya
Issue 201 - 21 January 2011

OMV deals on eve of political crisis

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The street protests which were ultimately to bring down the regime of President Zine El-Abedine Ben Ali had taken hold of the country - and were just ten days from their crisis - when Austria's OMV announced it had acquired the Tunisian exploration and production subsidiaries of the US' Pioneer Natural Resources.

Tunisia
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In a new report, the US government’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) has identified seven major chokepoints for the worldwide maritime transit of oil, which accounted for about 61% of global petroleum and other liquids production movements in 2015 (when total world supply was about 96.7m b/d). The Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf and the Strait of Malacca, which links the Indian and Pacific oceans, are the most important strategic chokepoints by volume of oil transit.