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General Electric Company of Libya (Gecol) is facing a series of unprecedented threats to power generation and distribution across the whole country. Failures at a number of vital transformers and substations have effectively broken the national grid into a number of isolated networks. Combined with shortages of both diesel and natural gas, and the suspension of key development projects following the withdrawal of international partners, the company estimates that it has lost approximately 1,800MW – about two-fifths – of the 4,565MW of installed capacity.

Libya
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A new IMF programme, six years after the ‘tuna bonds’ scandal erupted, points to Filipe Nyusi’s success at surviving through difficult times but, with just two years left before his second term ends, the president still has to show he has created an environment able to deliver LNG mega-projects, as the insurgent challenge continues and rival factions line up for a succession, writes Tom Bowker.

Mozambique
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Privately-held Aqua Power’s power investments focus exclusively on baseload provision and projects with a cost of below $0.10/kWh. Above this level “hard questions need to be asked”, as it implied costs were being subsidised by the utility and, by proxy, taxpayers, executive director Gachao Kiuna told African Energy.

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After years of silence from operator ExxonMobil, a request for expressions of interest (EoI) appears to confirm industry rumours that the US major wanted to shift the Rovuma LNG (Area 4) project's onshore plant towards a modular approach, which would reduce security risks.

Mozambique
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US player West Africa LNG has a $300m deal to build a liquefied natural gas import and distribution terminal to supply gas to power-hungry miners and to-be-developed alumina processing facilities in a country where previous efforts to expand the grid have faltered and significant additional generation capacity will be required to develop alumina processing at scale. Chaired by a former US ambassador to Guinea, WALNG has yet to expand on financing and other critical details.

Guinea
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Despite calls from some governments for sub-Saharan Africa to use its natural gas resources and build more gas-to-power plants, it is hydroelectric power that will drive the biggest growth in electricity generation in the region over the next five years, according to analysis of African Energy Live Data’s project pipeline to 2027.

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New details have emerged of the Moroccan government’s ambitious project to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) and develop six combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plants with combined 6.3GW capacity, whose launch has been promised by energy minister Abdelkader Amara for some months. The Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment is expected to launch tenders for legal, technical and financial consultants “in a few weeks” to support the plan’s estimated $5bn first phase, which will make natural gas a key component in the wider energy mix, delegates at the AiX:Gas conference in London heard on 28 May.

Morocco
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High inflation and a global energy crisis are forcing a rethink on how the world might make the transition from hydrocarbons to renewable energy. Until recently, rich-world policy-makers and think tanks had been pushing to electrify global energy demand as quickly as possible and in many parts of the world a de facto moratorium on new hydrocarbon projects had taken hold. But reports of the demise of gas have been greatly exaggerated.

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The prospects for giga-scale renewable power projects in North Africa have never been better, leveraging off export-led green hydrogen projects and the advantages of adding cheap non-emitting capacity to already well-developed grids. But the latest figures from African Energy Live Data show that, over the next five years, North Africa will instead pour ever more natural gas into a growing fleet of open cycle plants, while relatively few wind and solar projects have firm completion dates.

Egypt | Libya | Algeria | Morocco | Tunisia
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The resumption of work appears to be edging closer on the TotalEnergies-led Mozambique LNG project and ExxonMobil’s nearby Rovuma LNG scheme, amid an improving security situation and indications of support from international partners. However, rising costs are overtaking security issues as a primary concern and could yet lead to further delays, writes Marc Howard.

Mozambique
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London AIM-listed Sound Energy has secured a provisional deal for Calvalley Petroleum to take a 40% stake and provide funding for its two-phase onshore Tendrara gas project. Sound has also lined up a debt financing package for Tendrara phase 2, led by Casablanca-based Attijariwafa bank.

Morocco
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African Union and European Union leaders met for the sixth EU-AU Summit in Brussels on 17-18 February, co-chaired by European Council president Charles Michel and AU’s Senegalese chairman President Macky Sall. It had been three years in the making – due to Covid and other delays – and, as with previous summits, there was talk of huge financial flows, boundless co-operation and commitments to a future of inclusive development.

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Paris-based independent Perenco has signed a production-sharing contract (PSC) for the offshore Rio del Rey Basin and says it expects progress on approval of its acquisition of New Age’s interest in the Etinde gas field project.

Cameroon
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Despite fierce resistance from many resource-rich, infrastructure-poor African governments, 34 countries and five development banks committed to ending external funding for fossil fuel projects at the Cop26 summit. Dan Marks and African Energy staff ask whether the writing really is on the wall for natural gas projects

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African delegations are meeting in a massive and not yet fully prepared conference venue several days before COP26 officially opens, writes John Hamilton in Glasgow. The pre-sessional meeting of the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) is attempting once again to get the continent’s priority issues onto the global agenda, a few days before G20 leaders gather in Rome for what, in part, will be a pre-COP 26 assembly of developed nations and leading emerging markets.