Skeleton Coast littered by undead power projects
Namibia’s Xaris power project is ‘dead’, a source has told Interfax. But developers insist work is well under way and that the president could sign off on it within weeks.
21 October 2015
New South Africa shale regulations ‘don’t protect trade secrets’
South Africa’s shale gas regulations have a major flaw that could create environmental problems with fracking fluids, Luke Havemann, an oil and gas specialist at law firm ENS, tells Interfax.
16 October 2015
BP named as buyer for Eni’s FLNG in Mozambique
BP has agreed to offtake LNG from Eni’s Coral FLNG project in Mozambique, under a contract that offers competitively priced cargoes in return for flexibility in volumes and timing
9 October 2015Kudu confident of 2019 startup – Nampower
After a series of setbacks, a new upstream partner has revived the prospects for Namibia’s Kudu gas-to-power project.
7 October 2015
Three ports, three solutions for South Africa’s power crisis
South Africa will launch its integrated LNG-to-power tender in Q2 2016 and will seek to import LNG into all three selected ports, the head of the IPP programme tells a conference in Cape Town.
1 October 2015
South Africa mulls gas-to-power capacity increase
South Africa may expand its gas-fired power tender beyond the initial 3.1 GW as the fuel will now be the ‘cornerstone’ of the country’s baseload supply, the country's energy minister says.
29 September 2015Will Moz let another LNG opportunity float by?
Debate over how Coral FLNG should be structured is stymieing the project's development and may mean Mozambique will miss its chance to become Africa’s first FLNG exporter.
23 September 2015Election campaign bodes ill for Tanzania LNG
Edward Lowassa, leader of Tanzania’s opposition coalition, has called for energy and mining agreements to be renegotiated. Now ruling party CCM may look to do the same.
16 September 2015Tanzania’s offshore gas: what the people want
Citizens in Tanzania have unrealistic expectations of the opportunities gas development will bring, according to a mobile phone survey conducted by Twaweza.
11 September 2015
African FLNG first to feel finance squeeze
Non-scalable projects and projects that deliver fewer benefits to the host government are most likely to feel the pinch in today’s more conservative lending environment.
10 September 2015
Shale faces long road in SA – regulatory official
South Africa has published shale gas regulations, but it will be at least three years until companies start fracking and, until then, Karoo’s real resource potential is unknown.
9 September 2015
Tanzania still waiting on content of crucial oil laws
More than a month after President Kikwete signed crucial new oil and gas legislation into law, investors are still waiting to see the final content of the acts.
8 September 2015
Reform alone cannot fix Nigeria’s gas infra void
President Buhari has not appeared to welcome the private sector in the past, but this attitude will need to change if he is to kickstart Nigeria’s gas revolution.
4 September 2015
TANESCO’s gas-fired future
Decklan Mhaiki, deputy managing director of Tanzania Electric Supply Co., tells Interfax about the utility’s plans for increasing its gas-fired power generation capacity.
2 September 2015
Quick gas wins could help Buhari win the oil war
Reforming Nigerian Gas Co. into a transparent, efficient body able to attract private investment into Nigeria’s midstream could be a quick win for President Buhari.
1 September 2015Foreign labour red tape could delay Moz LNG projects
Mozambique’s decree law will allow the import of expats beyond the usual legal quotas, but inconsistent application of the law threatens LNG projects.
26 August 2015
Can Tanzania avoid the dreaded resource curse?
Ambitious goals for good governance are not enough for emerging oil and gas producers such as Tanzania to avoid the ‘resource curse’, the latest report by Chatham House argues.
24 August 2015
Ghana readies for major ECG restructure
After 20 years deliberating the privatisation of Ghana’s main electricity distributor, the sector may now be on the cusp of major reform
19 August 2015
Moz players left guessing after shock state oil reshuffle
As Eni and Anadarko gear up for FID on their Mozambique LNG projects, the industry is still in the dark about what new roles President Filipe Nyusi has in mind for two top petroleum officials.
13 August 2015
Tariff hike needed to coax more IPPs into Ghana
Ghana will need to revise its electricity pricing if it is to lure private investors into building new gas-fired power capacity, according to a new report from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
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