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Determined to showcase Africa’s gas potential and promote intra-Africa cooperation, Equatorial Guinea’s Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima, has commenced an Africa-wide tour to woo both Gas Exporting Countries…

In the last decade, Nigeria has reduced the number of expatriates in the petroleum industry by 80%, being part of the achievements of the local content policy introduced since 2010. Confirming this development in Abuja yesterday,…

As part of fresh measures aimed at getting Nigeria rid of the menace of oil and gas pipeline breaks by vandals, the new management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that it is putting in place a…

Addax Petroleum has announced a contract for Airborne Oil & Gas to deliver two gas lift jumpers in West Africa. This will result in its thermoplastic composite pipeline (TCP) becoming a permanent application in the region for the first…

The Arab Industrialization Organization (AOI), is backing Egyptian government ambition to build solar power plants in seven African countries, in an initiative to reduce the energy deficit on the continent. The North African country says…

…Receives proposal for 107 MW of solar energy plant …Enters pact to import power from Eskom. Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has received a solar project proposal from Power Ventures for the building of a 107…

Two Nigerian oil intelligence management agencies, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), have committed themselves to a pact aimed at mitigating the recurring…

…New oil find could quadruple existing national output The government of the Republic of Congo has reached the 1 million barrels of crude per day target following a new oilfield discovery in the country, the company involved in the…

…Project to deliver 250MW, clean reliable power Renowned renewable power generation company that delivers utility-scale projects across Africa, Lekela has successfully reached financial close on its first wind project in…

…President tells countrymen ‘electricity is not luxury’ Mozambique has established a $19 million new electricity sub-station in the Namialo administrative post in the Northern Province of Nampula. The substation is financed by the…

…Overall plan is to produce 20% of electricity from renewable energy by 2022. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is funding a $85 million, 20MV solar power plant in the city of Red Sea Governorate of Upper Egypt to…

Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has commenced doorstep delivery of meters to customer, tagged, mobile Meter Asset Provider (The MAP). AEDC’s General Manager, Corporate Communications, Mr Oyebode Fadipe, confirmed this to…

The Export-Import Bank of China and Export-Import Bank of India Zimbabwe have syndicated three separate loans of just over US$108.3 million for Zimbabwe to use for power generation projects and broadband expansion. …

Australian exploration and production company, Woodside Energy has awarded nine contracts to Houston oilfield service company, Halliburton to drill and complete a series of wells off the coast in West Africa. The contracts, according to a…

The North African country, Egypt has reached installed capacity of 55,000 Megawatts of electricity per day. The figure is about 3,000MW higher than what South Africa produces, going by Egypt’s own official figures. Experts…

Nigeria's first-ever hybrid solar power plant was commissioned at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ebonyi state. The plant with a capacity of 2.8 MW, was built as part of the Energising Education Programme (EEP). It is the first of…

Sahara Group, a leading international oil and gas conglomerate, has announced a decision to explore the energy sector of Angola, Africa’s second-biggest oil-producing country. Top officials of the group say a few regulatory reforms have…

The International Energy Agency has said that the noticeable economic slowdown and a ratcheting up of the U.S.-China trade war have caused global oil demand to grow at its slowest pace since the financial crisis of 2008. In its monthly…

Egypt’s petroleum ministry has announced a new gas discovery in the Nile Delta region with an estimated production of 20 million cubic feet per day. Officials believe that recent events in the country’s natural gas sector of the country…

Lesotho plans to be at the centre of discussions during the Africa Oil & Power 2019 coming up between October 9 and 11 in Cape Town, with a comprehensive expose on the southern African country’s energy investment opportunities. The…