The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) has called for two gas-fired power plants to be constructed urgently as a spinning reserve to balance renewable energy sources in the national grid. The spinning plants, with a proposed total...
A shipment of Kenya’s first 200,000 barrels of oil exports left Mombasa port on 26 August heading for Malaysia. The tanker was flagged off in a ceremony attended by President Uhuru Kenyatta. “I am proud to say Kenya’s grand march to oil and gas...
Following an agreement with Brazil’s Vale and controversial Israeli investor Beny Steinmetz’s BSG Resources to settle a long-running dispute over the Simandou iron ore resource, President Alpha Condé’s government believes it can launch iron ore...
As generators hum into action and power cuts intensify during the dry season, it seems hard to believe that providing electricity to the population in Conakry and other urban centres will be a major selling point when, as is widely expected,...
Ghanaian explorer Springfield Exploration and Production Limited has signed a contract with Stena Unicon Offshore Services Ghana to use the Stena Forth drillship for two wells on West Cape Three Points (WCTP) Block 2.“The campaign will first...
Only a few months after the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) distribution business was transferred to Power Distribution Services Ghana Ltd (PDS) on 1 March, the government has suspended the concession. “The decision follows the detection of...
BW Energy has spudded an exploration well on the Hibiscus Updip prospect on the Dussafu Marin permit. Partner Panoro Energy said the well, being drilled with the Borr Norve jackup rig, was the first well in a six-well campaign planned on Dussafu...
The Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons has announced an oil discovery by Noble Energy in offshore Block I. The Aseng 6P well was drilled to a total depth of 4,417 metres testing a deeper prospect beneath the Aseng field. The field consists of...
The government has announced plans for an LNG terminal on Equatorial Guinea’s mainland. The new plant will be built at the port of Akonikien on the southern border by local contractor Elite Construcciones. It will have a storage capacity of 14,...
Finland’s Wärtsilä announced on 29 July that it will supply two 34SG engines with combined capacity of 19MW to the Borg El Arab gas power plant, owned and operated by Kahraba, part of Egypt Kuwait Holding, one of the largest private electricity...
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