LNG Slowly does it for African LNG projects in 2015
There may have been little progress on the headline LNG export projects in Mozambique and Tanzania this year, but small FLNG and FSRU projects across sub-Saharan Africa are gaining traction.
Eq. Guinea to launch new bidding round next year
Equatorial Guinea plans to launch a new bidding round for its deep and ultra-deep acreage in 2016.
28 October 2015Fortuna FLNG volumes may head to South Africa
South Africa is interested in importing LNG for its new gas-fired power programme from Equatorial Guinea’s planned FLNG plant.
28 October 2015Gabon launches 11th licensing round
Gabon launched its 11th oil and gas licensing round in Cape Town in South Africa on Tuesday.
27 October 2015
Exploration & Production Gas find ups political pressure in Western Sahara
Following the San Leon gas shows in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, international organisations have issued legal opinions on natural resource extraction.
27 October 2015GreenStream gas transit continues to fall
North African pipeline exports to Europe fell by 0.5% week on week in Week 43, to 628.4 MMcm.
27 October 2015Mozambique oil round shortlist coming soon, terms to be public – INP
Mozambique's regulator will soon announce which companies will be invited to negotiate final EPCC terms for the country’s fifth licensing round, Chairman Carlos Zacarias tells Interfax.
23 October 2015Ghanaian power plant starts commercial operations
TAQA and Ghana’s state-owned utility, the Volta River Authority, have started commercial operations at the expanded 330 MW T2 gas-fired power plant in Ghana.
23 October 2015Planned investment in Moz gas projects hits $31 billion
Planned investment in gas projects in Mozambique now stands at $31 billion, with the bulk to be spent on Anadarko’s Area 1 operations, according to Omar Mitha, chairman of state oil company ENH.
23 October 2015Namibia's Kudu power project 'viable' – Nampower
The upstream and downstream developments of the 850 MW Kudu gas-to-power project in Namibia have proven to be technically viable, Muyenga Muyenga, project coordinator at NamPower, has told Interfax.
23 October 2015Morocco seeks LNG-to-power project advisers
Morocco is looking for financial advisers to work on its LNG-to-power project at Jorf Lasfar.
23 October 2015Sound Energy to acquire interest in Moroccan licences
Sound Energy has signed an agreement to acquire Maghreb Petroleum Exploration’s 25% interest in three onshore oil and gas exploration permits in the Sidi Moktar region of Morocco.
23 October 2015Shell South Africa gets exploration permission
South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs has given permission for Shell South Africa to drill up to two gas exploration wells in the Orange Basin Deep Water Licence Area.
21 October 2015Skeleton 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 2015Tanzania hopes for big boost in power generation
The government of Tanzania has said it is optimistic that the country can generate 2.78 GW of electricity by 2016.
20 October 2015Cameroon FLNG tolling agreement approved
The tolling agreement for the Golar Hilli LNG vessel – for use in the Cameroon FLNG project – has been approved, Golar LNG said in a release.
20 October 2015Libya’s NOC eyes exploration round in 2016
The chairman of Libya’s National Oil Corp. told delegates at a conference in London the company hopes to tender exploration contracts next year – but serious challenges remain.
20 October 2015GreenStream leads North Africa pipeline transit decline
North African pipeline exports to Europe fell by 2.1% week on week in Week 42, to 631.7 MMcm, with GreenStream exports to Italy facing the biggest drop.
20 October 2015N-Gas sets debt deadline for Ghana's VRA
N-Gas, the main supplier of gas to Ghana’s Volta River Authority, has given the state utility until February 2016 to clear its outstanding debt of $171.5 million, to be made in three payments.
19 October 2015PetroSA records $1.1 bln net operating loss
South Africa’s national oil company PetroSA has recorded a net operating loss of ZAR 14.6 billion ($1.1 billion) for 2014-2015.
16 October 2015
Exploration & Production 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.
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