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The beleaguered MDC energy minister is talking up prospects for encouraging investment to relaunch major generation schemes and, following a series of disappointments, expects to test investor appetite in coming months

Zimbabwe
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Cameroon’s plans to harness the hydropower potential of the Sanaga River took a step forward in mid-July with the approval by the World Bank Group of a $794.5m investment package for the 420MW Nachtigal hydropower project. The run-of-river project, which will cost an estimated $1.3bn, is being developed as a public-private partnership by the government of Cameroon, EDF International and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC).

Cameroon
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CI-Energies is seeking expressions of interest from consultants by 30 October to assist with the construction of a floating solar PV project on Lake Kossou in north-central Côte d’Ivoire. The project, with an installed capacity of 10-20MWp, is to be developed as a pilot project by CI-Energies on the reservoir impounded by the Kossou dam on the Bandama River, about 40km north-west of Yamoussoukro. The reservoir was identified in a scoping study by the state power producer as the site for the first in a series of planned utility-scale floating solar projects.

Côte d'Ivoire
Issue 290 - 04 December 2014

Ophir buys Salamander

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Ophir Energy is buying Salamander Energy, giving it additional acreage in south-east Asia. Salamander was co-founded in 2005 by Ophir managing director Nick Cooper, and Ophir said its portfolio offered an attractive balance to its existing African operations.The all-share deal values London-based Salamander at £314m ($528m). On completion, Salamander shareholders will own approximately 20.9% of Ophir, which has already announced two Asian acquisitions this year. Ophir was awarded a block from Myanmar’s 2013 licensing round, and a deal with Niko Resources in October 2014 gave it interests in seven licences in Indonesia.

Issue 396 - 12 July 2019

South Africa: USTDA funds CBM study

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The US Trade and Development Agency signed a grant on 25 June supporting a feasibility study for the development of a coalbed methane resource in the Waterberg coalfield in Limpopo Province. The grant was made to Anglo Operations (Proprietary) Limited (Anglo American Coal South Africa), which selected Arlington-based Advanced Resources International to conduct the study. Anglo American said the project would help it reduce its carbon emissions targets, stimulate the domestic gas sector and benefit local industry.

South Africa
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Doubts are being raised over São Tomé e Príncipe’s ability to handle oil licensing after the tiny island state was thrown out of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, writes Thalia Griffiths

São Tomé & Príncipe
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Faced with the prospect of becoming a brand-new state with virtually no infrastructure, the South Sudan authorities are hoping to attract private finance for an ambitious programme of hydropower development

South Sudan
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Sonatrach has signed a long-term gas supply agreement for an ammonia and urea plant being built by at Arzew by Sorfert, a joint venture of Sonatrach and Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries (OCI).

Algeria
Issue 296 - 12 March 2015

Western Sahara well non-commercial

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Kosmos Energy has said its CB-1 exploration well on the Cap Boujdour permit area offshore the disputed Western Sahara encountered non-commercial hydrocarbons and will be plugged and abandoned. The well penetrated 14 metres of gas and condensate pay in clastic reservoirs over a 500-metre hydrocarbon-bearing interval. The Atwood Achiever drillship is now proceeding to Mauritania to test the Tortue prospect, where Chevron Corporation farmed in in February. The top-hole portion of Tortue has already been drilled by the Atwood Achiever en route to Western Sahara.

Issue 215 - 10 September 2011

Chariot wins BP farm-in

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UK minnow Chariot Oil & Gas has won a farm-in from BP, which has taken 25% in its southern Block 2714A in the Orange Basin, which includes the giant Nimrod prospect. 

Namibia
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Another Sudanese drama beckons with President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir’s threat to shut off the main pipeline linking oil fields in the soon-to-be-independent south with the export terminal at Port Sudan unless the Government of South Sudan (GoSS) continues to share revenues or pays a transit fee on every barrel exported

South Sudan | Sudan
Issue 358 - 23 November 2017

Mambilla test for Nigeria financing

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After decades of false starts, Nigeria has secured Chinese financing for the 3,050MW Mambilla hydroelectric power dam on the Donga River, which the authorities hope can start commercial operations in 2024-25. The latest contract was signed on 10 November by China Gezhouba Group Company, Sinohydro Corporation and CGCOC Group to build the $5.793m scheme, 85%-financed by the Export-Import Bank of China.

Nigeria
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An appeal hearing in a case brought by six NGOs against Total over its activities in Uganda has been adjourned until 28 October. The case is the first to be brought under France’s 2017 Corporate Duty of Vigilance law, and the NGOs hope to establish a precedent with wider implications for Total and other international companies. On 30 January, the Nanterre high court declined jurisdiction in favour of the commercial court. The NGOs’ appeal against this decision opened at the Versailles Court of Appeal on 24 June and was adjourned.

Uganda
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Plans to remove or cut the duty on equipment and capital goods will boost projects, with several projects in the pipeline but needing support, writes John Hamilton

Egypt
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The events at In Aménas in January were the product of intelligence failures at a number of levels. Most dramatic is an allegation that, by November 2012, the Département du Renseignement et de la Sécurité (DRS) intelligence service had detailed information showing that a group related to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), led by Mohamed-Lamine Bouchneb (aka Abou Aïcha) and co-ordinated by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, was planning to attack Algerian petroleum installations. That attack took place – almost exactly as described – just two months later.

Algeria