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Great Lakes Africa Energy (GLAE) is pressing forward with the first phase of a 250MW gas power plant in Mozambique. The company – part of Humphrey Kariuki’s Janus Continental Group – signed a 30-year concession agreement in November and is in talks over a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the 50MW first phase.

Senegal is an emerging African gas powerhouse, where large deep-water finds during the last decade have captured international attention, led by the 15tcf BP-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim block, shared with Mauritania, which due is to start production in Q4 2023.

TotalEnergies’ discovery of light oil with associated gas on the deep-water Venus prospect in the Orange Basin raises the prospect once again that Namibia’s geology contains resources that could underpin gas-to-power (GTP) plays and provide significant new revenue from crude sales.

Côte d’Ivoire is still planning for a third gas-fired power plant, which is likely to operate as a mid-merit or peaking plant to help manage variable renewable power. It is not yet clear whether this plant will be located at a site near Abidjan, like Azito and Ciprel. There has been talk about repurposing the 700MW San-Pédro coal project as a CCGT unit.

Seplat Energy was forced on 7 March to scotch rumours that its ambitious $1.6bn acquisition of ExxonMobil’s shallow-water assets in Nigeria had been terminated. This came after local media reported that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had exercised a right of pre-emption under the NNPC/Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPNU) joint operating agreement (JoA).

Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines has made a strategic investment in Johannesburg Stock Exchange- and A2X-listed Renergen, in a deal that gives the Canadian firm an option to negotiate power supply from Renergen’s planned gas power plant in South Africa.

South African state-owned Central Energy Fund has signed a non-binding term sheet to acquire a 10% stake in Renergen’s Victoria gas project for R1bn ($68m)

Canada’s Reconnaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica) has announced that its frontier onshore Kavango Basin acreage could hold more than 1.4 tcf of gas and almost 1bn barrels of oil, according to a review by independent analysts.

State utility Société Nationale d’Electricité du Sénégal (Senelec) has delayed plans to convert the 235MW Aysegül Sultan powership form using heavy fuel oil (HFO) to using liquified natural gas (LNG), due to high prices and market volatility.

London AIM-listed Savannah Energy has signed an agreement with TransAfam Power Ltd (TAPL) to supply gas to its power plants in Rivers State.

An initial agreement for the $30bn Lindi liquified natural gas project, comprising a major deep offshore development and construction of a large LNG plant, was signed on 11 June. This is not the much-anticipated host government agreement, which project sources told African Energy is expected by year-end

London AIM-listed Chariot has signed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract with Schlumberger and Subsea 7 for the Anchois gas project in the offshore Lixus licence area.

Ivorian energy minister Patrick Achi has commissioned the Azito power plant expansion project, adding 179MW to the national grid.

Norway’s DNO has agreed to pay $117.25m to acquire Mondoil Enterprises, which in turn holds a 33.3% stake in Foxtrot International, which has interests in offshore gas and associated liquids in Côte d'Ivoire. DNO is buying Mondoil from United Arab Emirates-based RAK Petroleum.

Mauritania’s energy minister Abdessalam Ould Mohamed Saleh has said the government hopes to agree a business plan with BP for the 50tcf BirAllah gas project in the next two to three years.