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In a widely expected development, given their plunging bilateral relations, Algeria has withdrawn Sonatrach’s exports via the GME pipeline, which delivers natural gas to Morocco and Spain – posing a range of geopolitical and energy supply questions, write Dominic Dudley and Jon Marks.

Algeria | Morocco
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European funding should help to stabilise the state power utility Steg as it seeks to attract private investment into renewable energy schemes. Cash flows have been hard hit by coronavirus, but a recovery roadmap aims to improve the situation, writes Dan Marks

Tunisia
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Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc announced on 1 February that it had raised $260m of debt to fund completion of the Assa North-Ohaji South (ANOH) gas processing plant project in Imo State. Seplat is building the plant alongside Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) subsidiary Nigerian Gas Company through their 50:50 joint venture company ANOH Gas Processing Company (AGPC).

Nigeria
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Ghana’s imposition of a unitisation deal on Eni and Springfield E&P highlights the government’s impatience at delays in developing hydrocarbons resources, but may also reveal an element of resource nationalism as the state throws its weight behind a homegrown energy company, writes James Gavin.

Ghana
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President Macky Sall has appointed opposition figures and some new faces to government as he seeks to build confidence around the emerging hydrocarbons industry and tackle criticism of his recent economic management, writes Our Dakar Correspondent.

Senegal
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Sahara to develop LPG storage Sahara Energy Logistics has signed a joint-venture agreement with Petroci for the construction of a 12,000 tonne LPG storage facility. Sahara said the $43m project would be executed in two phases, with commissioning scheduled for November 2021 and October 2022 respectively.

Côte d'Ivoire
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Proposals to solve Libya’s interminable power and water supply crises are being advanced by competing institutions, but deep uncertainties about governance, security and finance mean only the most expensive and least sustainable projects are likely to be completed. Pragmatic renewable power schemes will remain on the sidelines, writes John Hamilton

Libya
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Perenco’s move to install a production unit will usher in small-scale export LNG production in Gabon for the first time, as well as promoting butane self-sufficiency.

Gabon
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Early years electricity demand at the Magnis Energy Technologies group’s Nachu graphite production plant will be around 24MW, with mining and processing operations expected require some 135,000 MWh/yr.

Tanzania
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West Africa’s total installed generation capacity could reach 43GW by 2027 from 31GW at end-2021, according to African Energy Live Data’s latest analysis, with thermal, hydropower and other renewable projects lining up. But many of these capacity additions are planned for Nigeria, where results may be patchy, as it is already hard to dispatch power from existing plants to an inadequate grid.

Ghana | Nigeria | Guinea | Senegal | Mali | Côte d'Ivoire
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A recent flurry of activity by outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari will help his successor Bola Tinubu to tackle key macroeconomic problems, including cutting subsidies and overhauling the exchange rate. It could pave the way for a more proactive government at a time of extreme economic and other stresses, writes Jon Marks.

Nigeria
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An anticipated surge in demand for electricity in the coming years – from a major liquefied natural gas (LNG) project as well as the mining sector, a new electric railway and other sources – is prompting the government to look at adding more gas-fired capacity to the grid and to push ahead with renewable energy projects, writes Marc Howard.

Tanzania
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After outlining contingent support for Mozambican natural gas projects, the World Bank has told African Energy it may back other projects on a ‘selective basis’, with criteria that could favour African markets, writes Marc Howard.

Mozambique
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State-owned utility Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau Potable (Onee) has issued a tender for the construction of a 900MW open cycle gas turbine (OCGT) power plant adjacent to Al-Wahda dam and the Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline (GME). The project’s estimated cost is MD6bn ($592m).

Morocco
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A first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) had arrived at Italy’s new regasification terminal in Piombino, and had begun offloading at the Tuscan facility, Eni said on 5 May. The LNG was supplied from the Damietta liquefaction plant in Egypt, which Eni now operates in a joint venture with Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (Egas).

Egypt