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Nigerian independent Seplat Energy has announced $320m of new investment this year as it bids to double production to 140,000 b/d, following its acquisition of ExxonMobil’s Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPNU). Previously an onshore operator, Seplat, which posted an almost doubling of profits in 2024, has gained significant offshore capacity through the completion of the MPNU deal.

The new NDC administration is promising a radical shake-up of Ghanaian institutions and spending, including another stab at electricity sector privatisation – in an attempt to carry through what John Mahama promised when he was last president, a decade ago. Delivering meaningful reform will provide an even greater challenge now than it did for his last government, writes Jon Marks.

Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) is expected to shortly announce the winner of the EPC tender for the 30km Ntorya- Madimba spur pipeline that will take gas from the Ruvuma PSA to the existing processing and pumping station.

Updated March 2025, this map provides a detailed overview of the hydrocarbons sector in Gabon. Blocks that are open, under negotiation (or provisional award) and licensed (exploration and production) are shown, with block operators and oil and gas fields marked, alongside associated mid- and downstream infrastructure such as pipelines, tanker terminals, FPSOs, FSOs, refineries and LNG facilities. An inset shows Port Gentil and the shallow water offshore region to the south. A second inset shows the offshore oil fields south of Mayumba. The map is available as a PDF file using eps graphics, meaning that there is no loss of resolution as the file is enlarged.  

Revised in March 20925, this map provides a detailed view of the power sector in Zambia. The locations of power generation facilities that are operating, under construction or planned are shown by type – including liquid fuels, natural gas, coal, geothermal, hybrid, hydroelectricity, nuclear, solar (PV and CSP), wind and biomass/biogas. Generation sites are marked with different sized circles to show sites of 1-9MW, 10-99MW, 100-499MW and 500MW and above. A small inset provides a closer look at Lusaka and the region to the south, including the Kariba hydroelectric power plants. Existing and future transmission and distribution lines are shown ranging from 66kV to 400kV. A small panel details four Copperbelt interconnection projects. Other actual and planned cross-border interconnectors are also shown including lines to Namibia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Power generation data was drawn from our African Energy Live Data platform, which contains project level detail on power plants and projects across Africa. The map is presented as a PDF file using eps graphics, meaning that there is no loss of resolution as the file is enlarged.  

The 5 March arrest of petroleum minister Puot Kang Chol, along with other senior allies of First Vice President Riek Macha, has raised tensions in Juba and provoked questions about the country’s seven-year peace settlement.

The Pastef party was handed a thumping parliamentary majority by Senegalese voters late last year, to add to its control of the presidency. Many see 2025 as the year that President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko must make good on their reforming promises, writes Wale Dione Faye in Dakar.

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) licensed 143 private power projects totalling 1.1GW in capacity during the third quarter of 2024. Nersa said that the quarterly statistics demonstrated “the ongoing transition towards commercial energy generation” in South Africa.

The Emerging Africa & Asia Infrastructure Fund (Eaaif) has agreed to provide $45m of debt to CrossBoundary Energy (CBE). It forms part of a wider $300m debt raise by the pan-African C&I power specialist, which hopes to develop a $500m portfolio by 2027.

With the full takeover of Nigeria’s Prime Oil & Gas, Vancouver-headquartered Africa Oil Corporation is looking to accrue strategic benefits from an enhanced position in West Africa, at a time when its exposure to offshore assets in Namibia has been pared back.

Output at the Chinese-built 183MW Isimbi hydroelectric power plant has returned to full capacity after emergency repairs. But outstanding structural defects could cost a further $150m to remedy and has led to strains between Kampala and contractor China International Water and Electric Corporation, writes Our Kampala Correspondent.

Hydrobox is adding 12MW of hydroelectric power and solar PV capacity to its mini-grids in rural Kenya. The IPP also operates its own distribution network, selling power to both commercial and industrial (C&I) users and previously unserved retail customers. C&I offtakers use both Hydrobox’s offering and the KPLC grid, with many having moved away from diesel genset backup in favour of Hydrobox.

Korean Solar Power Consortium has won a contract to build a solar PV and battery energy storage plant for agro-industrial firm Selu’s maize project in Kenya’s Galana-Kulalu region.

The European Investment Bank has committed $52m to Africa Finance Corporation’s $750m Infrastructure Climate Resilient Fund that will back climate-related infrastructure across Africa, including renewable energy power projects.

Nigerian National Petroleum Company’s logistics arm NNPC Shipping is partnering with Sweden’s Stena Bulk and the local Caverton Marine to create a new tanker operation which will target the West Africa region.