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Egyptian Electricity Holding Company and East Delta Electricity Production Company are inviting bids for electrical equipment and instrument installation.

Drilling next year will test whether north-west Africa’s previously unfashionable deep offshore could produce an equivalent of Ghana’s Jubilee field. A declaration of commerciality for the Banda gas field off Mauritania could add to the industry’s interest in lesser-known Atlantic Margin plays, write John Hamilton and Thalia Griffiths

Tullow Oil has announced a second discovery onshore Kenya, with the Twiga South well on Block 13T.

A flurry of announcements about renewable and other IPPs points to some momentum in the South African renewables process, but policy shifts remain a worry for potential developers.

Ugandan and Ghanaian government plans for rigorous local content regimes reflect politicians’ concerns that the fruits of oil production will neither be enjoyed by sufficient numbers of voters nor create sustainable national industries. Implementation may add to the burden on IOCs but is in the interests of all parties, writes Hugh Boylan

Chariot Oil & Gas has received government approval to enter the second renewal phase of two offshore blocks: Licence 14 (covering its northern blocks 1811 A&B) and Licence 15 (encompassing southern Block 2714B).

South Korea is providing E1.28m to Ghana to support a project in which Korean experts will help strengthen the technical and commercial capacity of biogas companies in the country

The Ministry of Finance is seeking expressions of interest (EoIs) from consultants to conduct an environmental and social audit, and develop an environmental management plan, for the Hwange power plant and associated infrastructure.

The authorities plan to use solar energy to supply electricity to parts of the 1,200km east-west highway, with the first phase due for delivery by year-end. Algeria: Solar power for prestige highway

Negotiations on avoiding further conflict continue, following the Agreement on Oil and Related Economic Matters reached by the two Sudans on 27 September.

While international companies have enjoyed some recent exploration success, the prevailing trend in Algeria is for national company Sonatrach to make the running in ever more areas, write John Hamilton and Oualid Khelif

In an interview with southern African business television channel Summit TV on 4 October, Sasol New Energy general manager Cavan Hill spoke about the company’s intention to develop commercial utility scale concentrated solar power projects

Fastnet Oil and Gas executive vice president exploration Paul Griffiths said in October that Morocco’s Foum Assaka offshore permit, which is operated by Kosmos Energy, as having “multi-billion barrel resources in place in several plays including a Jubilee field, Ghana analogue”.

Abu Dhabi-based renewable energy developer Masdar has announced plans to develop a 15MW solar photovoltaic power project in Nouakchott. Mauritania has an installed grid capacity of just 144MW, supplied mostly by diesel generators, but there is significant untapped solar and wind potential.

As explorers seek out new areas in which to test East Africa’s oil and gas potential, the Comoros has licensed its first block to Bahari Resources