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Nigerian energy officials have taken important steps to move forward key policy goals, despite reports of delays and in-fighting across the Yar’Adua administration.

Nigeria
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IOCs and consumer governments are indulging in intense speculation about Gazprom’s Nigerian love-in, with indications that Moscow might also revive co-operation with Algeria and invest big in several other African gas plays.

Nigeria | Algeria
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National Oil Corporation (NOC) has taken a hard line on blockades, refusing to give in to threats of extortion and insisting that perpetrators should face judicial sanctions. In an official statement on 4 March, NOC said that Brigadier-General Al-Rifi Kenah Ahmed Ali, who was appointed commander of the Libyan National Army’s Oil Assets Protection Unit in late February, had written to Akakus Oil Operations – its joint venture with Repsol, Total, Equinor and OMV, which runs the field – confirming that all individuals subject to arrest warrants from the public prosecutor had been removed from the site and would not be readmitted.

Libya
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The postponement of an infill drilling programme to expand production from the offshore Espoir field on Block CI-26 raised concerns in the industry when Canadian Natural Resources (CNR) announced the move in early August. In its Q2 2019 results statement, the Calgary-based operator said the postponement was “due to ongoing discussions with the government” and that the drilling programme would be “cancelled until such time as foreign exchange practices can be clarified”.

Côte d'Ivoire
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The need to find alternative sources of energy to satisfy unsustainable growth in electric power consumption has boosted official interest in renewable energy projects. In recent months, a number of ministers in the outgoing interim government – which tendered its resignation to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on 9 June – have announced important renewables initiatives with $1bn of investment potentially on the table. Whether Sisi, who was inaugurated in early June, has the vision and political determination to push through unpopular reforms in domestic energy markets is still unknown. He made almost no reference to economic policy during the election campaign.

Egypt
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The return of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua from Saudi Arabia, where he has been in hospital for more than three months, is threatening to undermine acting president Goodluck Jonathan’s efforts to consolidate his position and derail attempts to get the Niger Delta ceasefire and controversial oil sector reforms back on track (

Niger
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The re-emergence of controversial former vice president Atiku Abubakar as presidential candidate for a group of powerful northern elite factions has added some very Nigerian spice to the 2011 presidential election

Nigeria
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Deals struck between the government and protesters at fields in the south-western Murzuq Basin and those controlling the pipeline network south of Tripoli could lead to a resumption of exports from the main western export terminals of Az-Zawiya and Mellitah. But while an agreement with Cyrenaican federalist rebels in early April has enabled exports to restart from two smaller terminals in the east, a definitive resolution of the ten-month long blockade of the main ports in the central Sirte Basin still faces daunting political barriers, not least because of doubts over the legitimacy of the newly appointed prime minister.

Libya
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President José Eduardo dos Santos’ billionaire elder daughter Isabel has added to her portfolio with a controlling stake in Portuguese engineering company Efacec, ten years after she bought 38.3% in Portugal’s Galp Energia in partnership with Portuguese businessman Américo Amorim. Isabel dos Santos, whose fortune was estimated at $3bn last year by Forbes magazine, established the 50/50 Winterfell joint venture with the recently created Empresa Nacional de Distribuição de Electricidade (ENDE) in order to purchase foreign assets. Isabel dos Santos and Winterfell bought a 65% stake in Efacec Power Solutions at the beginning of June from two Portuguese companies, Grupo José de Mello SGPS and Têxtil Manuel Gonçalves.

Angola
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The meeting of the Libyan British Business Council in Tunis at which National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman Mustafa Sanalla set out ambitious plans to increase crude production was also notable for an altercation with Central Bank of Libya governor Sadiq Al-Kebir. Speaking in Arabic at the start of the meeting, Sanalla berated the governor for allowing central bank funds to be dispersed to the armed militias who control Tripoli.

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With the political elite gearing up to battle it out for the 2011 presidential nomination, the incumbent ‘GoodluckSambo’ ticket is looking for some ‘easy wins’ to outflank opponents. On the agenda is a revival of the stalled electricity sector liberalisation programme, writes Jon Marks in Abuja and Lagos

Nigeria
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There is no shortage of power projects in Zimbabwe, but while there are plenty of independent power producers (IPPs) and several smaller plants under construction, the government’s focus is on state-owned projects. Larger IPPs and investors face the seemingly insurmountable obstacles of the currency crisis and the absence of international funding, while a number of state projects are well advanced.The government has prioritised longstanding projects such as the 600MW expansion of the Hwange coal power plant and repowering of older thermal plants.

Zimbabwe
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As memories of its violent past and episodes such as the ‘Wonga coup’ recede, and with the joint hosting of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations deemed generally to be positive, Equatorial Guinea is appearing on lists of sub-Saharan African success stories, its oil and gas-fuelled GDP producing graphs showing sustained growth, and propelling it to the rank of middle-income country. An African Development Bank (AfDB) Country Strategy Paper (CSP) released on 18 July reminds us that Equatorial Guinea has sub-Saharan Africa’s highest per capita income and the potential to emerge as a regional energy hub, generating electricity from hydropower, as well as producing gas for local processing – pioneered by the Atlantic Methanol Company plant – and export, and supplying crude to US and other buyers.

Equatorial Guinea
Issue 277 - 17 May 2014

South Sudan arms for oil?

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A successful bid by US firm Defense Solutions on 7 May to buy 1m barrels of the South Sudan government’s crude was a first for the company. In recent months, most government oil contracts have been won by a small handful of traders: Glencore, Vitol, Trafigura, Sinopec subsidiary China International United Petroleum & Chemicals (Unipec), and China National United Oil Corporation (China Oil), jointly owned by China National Petroleum Corporation and Sinochem. Publicly available information on the government’s oil trades is scant, and it is even less clear how the trades are financed.

South Sudan
Issue 224 - 02 February 2012

New energy minister

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President Ernest Bai Koroma has removed energy minister Ogunlade Davidson and replaced him with former banker Oluniyi Robbin-Coker, who was previously his private sector policy adviser.

Sierra Leone