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In a case that could unsettle deep-water gas investors – if Tanzanian courts prove more willing to give it time than other jurisdictions have been – South African businessman Moto Mabanga has brought a case to the Tanzanian High Court’s Commercial Division to pursue a claim that he was muscled out of three offshore gas blocks by his former partners BG (now owned by Royal Dutch Shell), Ophir Energy and Pavilion Energy.

Tanzania
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The Algerian security services achieved their main aim of eliminating the Islamist militants who had invaded the In Aménas gas processing plant, but the loss of life and wider concerns about deteriorating Sahara/Sahel risk pose critical questions about operations in the region.

Algeria | Mali
Issue 142 - 05 July 2008

NIGERIA: Hydrocarbons restructuring

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Presidential adviser on energy Rilwanu Lukman has said he expects final government approval of his report on the restructuring of the Nigerian hydrocarbons sector “in the next week or two”.

Nigeria
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Government efforts to improve the economics of Ethiopia’s electricity supply industry encompass the full sweep of the supply chain, including improving collections, utility unbundling, debt restructuring, private investment in generation, least-cost electrification, capacity building and tariff increases. At the core of the reforms are efforts to improve the financial strength of the utilities and increase sector liquidity. Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation was split in 2013 into Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP), responsible for generation and transmission, and Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU), responsible for distribution.

Ethiopia
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The governments of Equatorial Guinea (EG) and Cameroon signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on 10 July paving the way for joint development of Noble Energy’s Yolanda discovery in EG Block I and Yoyo discovery offshore Cameroon. The company told African Energy the MoU stated that the two discoveries were in a contiguous reservoir that would be jointly developed as the Yoyo-Yolanda condensate gas field and operated by Noble Energy.“The MoU signifies a commitment from both countries to work together to develop the Yoyo-Yolanda condensate gas field,” Noble said.

Cameroon | Equatorial Guinea
Issue 215 - 10 September 2011

Transitional energy sector management

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National Transitional Council oil commitee chairman: Mustafa El-Huni, Omar Shakmak, Ali Tarhouni, Nouri Berouin

Libya
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Major IOCs have underlined their business-as-usual approach in Algeria as both Italy’s Edison and France’s Engie announced on 19 November that they were renewing their strategically important long-term gas contracts. They join Italy’s Enel and Eni, Portugal’s Galp Energia, Turkey’s Botas Petroleum Pipeline Corporation and Spain’s Naturgy Energy Group (formerly Gas Natural Fenosa) in agreeing new long-term sales deals.This is a major imperative for Algiers, which depends on natural gas sales – which totalled 51.4bcm in 2018, when two-thirds went to Italy and Spain – for a large proportion of its total export revenues.

Algeria
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It hardly rates on the scale of the drama that a courageous Tunisian population delivered to the world in ousting Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, but manoeuvrings by members of the former presidential circle to allow them to profit handsomely with little effort from the award of contracts for a gas-fired

Tunisia
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The passing of founding president Robert Gabriel Mugabe is another step in the rites of passage towards what over 15m Zimbabweans hope will eventually become a secure and sustainable economy and society. However, the 95-year-old autocrat’s death offers no solutions for reversing economic decline or for easing political tensions, as the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) calls for mass protests to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government.

Zimbabwe
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Years of relying on imported power have left Botswana unprepared to meet demand through its own-build programme, but the recruitment of advisors for the troubled Morupule B, a tender for 600MW of private generation capacity and calls for an international partner to take control of the state power utility suggest Gaborone is getting to grips with the situation, writes Dan Marks. While the Southern African Power Pool and its biggest supplier, South Africa, have failed to provide sufficient electricity to make up supply gaps, Botswana has struggled to raise its domestic generation capacity. Another supply crunch is looming: South Africa’s Eskom, which generated 68% of the electricity consumed in Botswana in 2011, signed a much-reduced agreement in January to supply 100MW of firm capacity and another 200MW on a non-firm basis until 31 July.

Botswana
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Senior officials and some notable international investors are optimistic that Egypt’s upstream sector is back on track, but this does not mean that some casualties have not been left by the wayside. The announcement of a new licensing round and the prospect of others later this year is the latest indication of the opportunities now on offer. Field developments are under way on and offshore, but Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) has not paid back arrears owed to international oil companies (IOCs) as quickly as it said it would, and a number of IOCs have suffered because of this.

Egypt
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The dynamics of the power struggle in Libya are changing fast, with the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House in January expected to give extra credibility to the resurgent Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, and to further undermine the already failing Government of National Accord (GNA). However, converting Haftar’s precarious Cyrenaican tribal alliance, which also includes influential elements from the former regime and Salafists, into a national movement capable of extending its rule over Fezzan and Tripolitania presents vast challenges.

Libya
Issue 304 - 11 July 2015

Guinea’s power politics

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Veolia’s management contract with Electricité de Guinée (EdG) revives hopes for an end to the power supply problems that have dogged Guinea for decades. But in the process, the French company will have to tackle one of the country’s biggest systems of fraud and embezzlement.President Alpha Condé, who makes no secret of his lack of confidence in Guineans’ ability to manage strategic sectors, was closely involved in negotiation of the contract, whose success is important both for energy-starved Guineans and for his chances of re-election in October

Guinea
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Efforts to establish a national unity government, agreed in principle by negotiators on 17 December, are foundering. United Nations Security Council resolution 2259, which endorsed the political agreement brokered by UN Support Mission in Libya chief Martin Kobler, gave a nine-member Presidency Council (currently based in Tunis) 30 days to form an administration and gain the ratification of the rival House of Representatives (HoR) and General National Congress. These two bodies will eventually become the parliament and State Council.

Libya
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Acutely aware that it needs to show that a majority of Ghanaians will enjoy long-term benefits from oil, the government is looking to stipulate local content provisions in its new industry.

Ghana