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Driven by a political imperative to fix the more than decade-long electric power crisis, General Electric Company of Libya (Gecol) has pushed through a massive round of maintenance at eight of its gas-fired power plants to prepare them for expected increases in demand during the winter.

Libya
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The Zambian government has set up working group led by the Ministry of Mines and the Ministry of Energy to speed up exploration efforts in areas close to Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Zambia
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Five more memoranda of understanding (MoUs) were signed in Rabat on 5 December, bringing more partners into the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) project.

Gambia | Ghana | Sierra Leone | Nigeria | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Morocco
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Nigerian independent Green Energy International (Geil) says it could invest up to $750m over the next three years to boost output at the Otakikpo field to 25,000 b/d. Geil is also due to commission a 6MW gas-to-power (GTP) plant and a 12m cf/d modular liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) extraction plant.

Nigeria
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Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo is looking to arrest the decline in its maturing crude oil acreage, which threatens Republic of Congo’s main source of income, but the national oil company’s biggest priority is to build up its natural gas resources, managing director Maixent Raoul Ominga told James Gavin.

Congo Brazzaville
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It was supposed to be all about implementation and Africa, but the COP27 climate summit ended on 20 November amid disharmony and a failure to agree more cuts in fossil fuel use. However, a series of initiatives were launched that might not have gained as much media attention but which could help African countries match their development needs with clean energy ambitions, writes John Hamilton, recently in Sharm El Sheikh.

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The unveiling of a number of major initiatives to help mitigate climate change, start moving towards offering ‘loss and damage’ support and stimulating carbon markets and other financing mechanisms was a feature of the COP27 climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh. African Energy takes a closer look at The Bridgetown Initiative, Alliance for Green Infrastructure in Africa, African Carbon Markets Initiative and The Transforma Platform.

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Turkish concessionaire Aksa Enerji has formally returned the 50MW Djéno gas-powered plant to service. Aksa has a 30-year concession to operate the plant and expand it to 100MW over the concession period.

Congo Brazzaville
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Tunisia’s EPPM Group expect to start construction of offshore methane gas facilities and a 30MW gas conversion power plant on the DR Congo lake shore in early 2023. EPPM says it is in talks with lenders for a financial close that will finally allow the much-anticipated project to go ahead.

DR Congo
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Oil majors’ Q3 2022 earnings exceeded analyst estimates, although booming incomes were boosted by only marginal contributions from their African portfolios.

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Kosmos Energy reported progress on its core development projects in West Africa in a Q3 2022 results release on 7 November. The New York Stock Exchange- and London Stock Exchange-listed firm said it was advancing several gas opportunities, which it now believes will drive growth beyond 2024 as it continues to increase the weighting of natural gas in its traditionally crude-heavy portfolio.

Ghana | Mauritania | Equatorial Guinea | Senegal
Issue 472 - 10 November 2022

Gas question rumbles at a divided COP

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Growing alarm over the scale of the climate emergency and the impossibility of limiting the global temperature increase to just 1.5ºC by 2100 has put Africa’s climate finance conundrum into the spotlight during COP27 in Egypt.  Divisions over the future role of gas in energy transition have split the continent – which will not get all the new money it wants to help it adapt to the consequences of climate change, writes John Hamilton in Sharm El Sheikh.

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London-listed Predator Oil & Gas Holdings has said the drilling of its MOU-2 gas well on the onshore Guercif licence is likely to start in the first half of December .

Morocco
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Loading of the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo from Eni’s 3.4m t/yr Coral Sul floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) plant is due to take place on 14 November, an industry source told African Energy.

Mozambique
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Aksa Energy has renewed its power purchase agreement for the 370MW plant with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) for a further 15 years.  Conversion from dual fuel to natural gas has begun and will continue at a brisk pace says chief executive Cemil Kazancı.

Ghana