The World Bank Group (WBG) Scaling Solar programme has again delivered some of Africa’s lowest tariffs after Ethiopia’s Public-Private Partnership Board approved on 11 September Acwa Power as preferred bidder for the Gad and Dicheto solar PV...
APR Energy has supplied and installed two 20MW TM2500 turbines to add to capacity at the 154MW Malabo Turbo Gas plant on Bioko Island. The new turbines arrived in Equatorial Guinea in early August and are expected to commission by the end of...
Eni on 17 September announced the successful commissioning and start-up of production at the offshore Baltim South West gas field. With the start-up of the first well, BSW1, the field is now producing at an initial rate of 100mcf/d from a new...
Chad’s upstream sector is experiencing renewed interest thanks to asset sales, an upturn in crude output which the government says rose to 126,000 b/d in H1 2019, and an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that has helped to...
A cabinet meeting on 11 September approved the appointment of Canada’s Manitoba Hydro International as management contractor and a consortium of Société Française de Réalisation d’Etudes et de Conseil (Sofreco) and AAA-KPMG Togo as contract...
Rising tensions between the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and southern secessionists are distracting from the war against Houthis across northern Yemen. Analysts suggest that, if the conflict between the Southern Transitional...
There are fresh questions about plans by Abu Dhabi to develop a military airport at Berbera, Somaliland, after the semi-autonomous territory’s President Muse Bihi Abdi said in a televised speech on 14 September that it would now be an exclusively...
Sheikha Latifa Bint Mohammed Al-Maktoum, daughter of Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, has been named as the new chair of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. Previously vice-chair, Sheikha Latifa promised “a fresh strategy to...
Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) has signed a Dh3.27bn ($890m) water purchase agreement with Saudi-based Acwa Power, to develop a 900,000 m3/d-plus reverse osmosis desalination plant in Taweelah, 45km north of Abu Dhabi. It would be...
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and UAE Armed Forces deputy supreme commander Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (MBZ) held a series of meetings with oil industry figures at Qasr Al Bahr on 9 September, taking advantage of their presence in Abu Dhabi for...
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