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President Emmerson Mnangagwa on 14 May appointed lawyer Fortune Chasi as minister of energy and power development. Chasi replaces Joram Gumbo, who was fired shortly after the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) announced a debilitating load-shedding schedule that leaves consumers without power for up to ten hours a day. Chasi’s appointment has been welcomed by many in the energy industry, who see him as young, hardworking and up to date with new energy technologies.

Zimbabwe
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South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme has attracted dozens of companies and can report some success in bringing down prices between the REIPPP’s first and second rounds. But hints that local content criteria may be ‘redefined’ to include key components could make an already tough bidding process less attractive and competitive, write Daniel Marks and Hugh Boylan.

South Africa
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The Mozambican government has issued a general procurement notice for a project to support reforms to its renewable energy policy and regulatory framework. The government has received a grant from the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa, which is managed by the African Development Bank. The project seeks to put in place a feed-in tariff regime and a mini-grid policy and regulatory framework. Work to be tendered includes the production of standard power purchase agreements for renewable energy projects smaller than 5MW and medium-sized projects of 10MW; guidelines for connection to the distribution network of small renewables projects; and guidelines for renewables investors.

Mozambique
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The success of the Desertec Industrial Initiative (Dii) and the viability of the Desertec vision, which critics still argue is fanciful, depends on resolving the transport problem as well as finding willing partners in North Africa.

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Statoil’s Cachalote-1 exploration well in offshore Area 2 has failed to hit oil and instead encountered non-commercial gas. The well was the first deep-water exploration well to be drilled on the block and discovered a gas-bearing reservoir in an Upper Cretaceous deep-water channel system. Partner Tullow Oil said the well found 38 metres of good quality gas-bearing reservoir sandstones in an Upper Cretaceous objective on the outboard flank of the regionally important Ibo High. Tullow said the gas was unlikely to be commercial on a standalone basis.

Mozambique
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National Water and Electricity Company has issued a general procurement notice for goods and services associated with the Gambia Electricity Access Project. The project, to be financed with grants from the African Development Fund and the African Development Bank’s Transition Support Facility TSF-Pillar 1, aims to increase access to electricity over four years from November 2019.

Gambia
Issue 217 - 08 October 2011

MOROCCO: Jorf Lasfar coal storage tender

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Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) has issued a tender (SP 465 985) for the turnkey installation of a new coal storage area at Jorf Lasfar, where Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa)-owned Jorf Lasfar Energy Company 5&6 is expanding the coal-fired generation complex.

Morocco
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Oil marketers have ended a strike that had virtually paralysed Nigeria in the final days of Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency, agreeing to resume fuel deliveries following talks on 25 May with finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The crisis started with a protest by oil marketers demanding what they said were outstanding subsidy payments, and worsened with a strike by staff at Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), while tanker drivers stopped work because the marketers were not paying them until they received their subsidy payments.

Nigeria
Issue 156 - 06 February 2009

Saudis look to North Africa

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Profiles of new Saudi investors in Africa

Egypt | Morocco
Issue 218 - 22 October 2011

Bowleven bullish on Sapele

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Edinburgh-based Bowleven has announced oil and gas condensate discoveries with the Sapele-3 well, boosting hopes that the discovery may prove commercial.

Cameroon
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The Opec Fund for International Development has approved a $12m loan to upgrade the 46MW Kotu thermal power station.

Gambia
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South Africa is close to first gas from the Project Ikhwezi development on Block 9, which aims to add more gas to extend the life of the Mossel Bay gas-to-liquids refinery. State oil company PetroSA is developing the F-O field, 40km south-east of the F-A production platform off the south coast. PetroSA acting vice-president new ventures upstream Andrew Dippenaar told Global Pacific & Partners’ Africa Oil Week conference in Cape Town on 7 November the project involved drilling five long-reach horizontal wells into a high-temperature, high-pressure reservoir. “Once we have those fields on production, there is some potential opportunity for discovered fields” to the east, he said

South Africa
Issue 350 - 14 July 2017

Ophir cuts jobs, FID delayed

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In a sign of how tough market conditions still are, Ophir Energy is slashing London-based and expatriate jobs by 50% to save $10m-$12m/yr. Chief operating officer Bill Higgs will be stepping down from his role and will not be replaced. In a 12 July trading update, Ophir said H1 production was lower than expected at 11,300 boe/d, which was 1,200 boe/d below budget due to temporarily lower production from the Kerendan and Sinphuhorm gas fields in South-East Asia.

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The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $14.12m facility supporting Nigeria’s membership of the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI). ATI provides political risk insurance for investment into member countries, using host government equity as collateral. Membership of ATI could allow as much as $5bn worth of investment into Nigeria to be insured by 2020, according to the AfDB.

Nigeria
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Scatec Solar, established in 2007 by Norway’s Scatec Group (62.5%) and Japan’s Itochu Corporation (37.5%), has announced that it has connected its 75MW Kalkbult solar PV project to the grid three months ahead of schedule. Project director Kari Fremme told African Energy that tests for full commissioning were completed in September and that regular production had begun. The project was selected as a preferred bidder in the first round of the renewable energy independent power producer procurement (REIPPP) programme. According to Fremme, the delay reaching financial close for all REIPPP1 bidders allowed Scatec to finalise plans and begin construction as soon as the relevant documents were signed.

South Africa