Policy & Regulation
With debts mounting, rolling blackouts imminent and the first round of redundancies under way, the unbundling of South Africa’s power utility looks increasingly likely.
30 November 2018Nigeria will need $3.5 billion of investment to end flaring in the Niger Delta region by 2020
29 November 2018The South African government plans to relax its moratorium on issuing oil and gas exploration licences, Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has said
29 November 2018South African utility Eskom has announced it is to start load shedding as a result of the increase in planned and unplanned outages affecting its facilities.
29 November 2018CBM exploration company Strata-X has announced it has obtained approval from Botswana’s government to spud 20 wells on its exclusive Serowe permit
28 November 2018UK-based Aquaterra Energy has won a contract with Nigeria’s FIRST Exploration and Petroleum Development to design and install two offshore platforms in the Niger Delta Basin
28 November 2018
Pipelines, Storage & Power
The Moroccan government is set to sell the Tahaddart power plant as it seeks to create a more competitive market for gas-fired generation.
28 November 2018Nigeria LNG has offered an LNG cargo for loading in December
27 November 2018Sonangol believes Angola to have around 113.3 billion cubic metres of proven gas reserves
27 November 2018Pipeline gas exports from North Africa to Europe rose by 3.4% last week but were down on an annual basis.
27 November 2018Gabon’s latest oil and gas licensing round is at risk because of the ill-health of President Ali Bongo Ondimba
26 November 2018Sonatrach has evacuated employees and equipment from a project in Libya because of the deteriorating security situation in the country
26 November 2018African Petroleum has relinquished its interest in two licences off the coast of Sierra Leone.
23 November 2018Senegal earned XOF 127 billion ($220 million) in revenues from oil and gas last year.
23 November 2018Equatorial Guinea’s oil minister has ordered petroleum companies operating in the country to cease doing business with UK-based Subsea 7.
23 November 2018
LNG
Perenco is holding talks with the Cameroonian government on obtaining the gas needed for the third and fourth trains of the project, but the timeline is unclear.
22 November 2018Algeria will invest $75 billion in its energy sector between the end of this year and 2022.
22 November 2018Talks on the farmout of 50% of Aminex’s working interest in the production-sharing agreement for the Ruvuma Basin in Tanzania have been extended.
22 November 2018Tlou Energy has announced that its drilling programme at the Lesedi CBM project in Botswana is proceeding on budget.
21 November 2018Ghana may exclude gas revenues from its finances while it chases payments from the Volta River Authority.
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