The Ministry of Mineral Resources and Petroleum has announced that an international public tender will be launched this year for the construction of an oil refinery at Soyo in the northern Zaire province to be developed with private capital.An...
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) announced on 12 August the finalisation of a $54m debt finance package for a 16.5MW run-of-river plant at Kikagati on the Kagera River, which forms the border between Uganda and Tanzania. EAIF said...
France’s Maurel & Prom has entered Angola with the acquisition of 20% of blocks 3/05 and 3/05A previously owned by Mitsubishi subsidiary Angola Japan Oil Company Ltd (Ajoco). The licences are two producing and development blocks in shallow...
A consortium led by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has announced an oil discovery near the Adar oilfield in Block 3. New oil minister Awow Daniel Chuang told Platts the discovery was estimated to contain 300m barrels of recoverable...
UK Climate Investments (UKCI) has announced a financing agreement worth £14m ($17m) with majority black-owned and managed renewable asset manager H1 Holdings. The financing will support development of the 140MW Kangnas wind farm in the Northern...
Eskom has reported a net loss after tax of R20.7bn ($1.4bn) for the year to March 2019, up from R2.3bn for the year to March 2018. While expenditure was reduced by R9.9bn, this was less than the targeted R10.6bn and was fully absorbed in...
Genel Energy plans to farm down its 75% interest in the SL-10B and SL-13 blocks onshore Somaliland. In its H1 results on 6 August, Genel said interpretation of the 2018 2D seismic data together with continued basin analysis has led to the...
Industrial Promotion Services and Norway’s SN Power have signed a 25-year concession agreement and power purchase agreements for the Ruzizi III hydropower plant with the governments and power utilities of Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and...
African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), a member of Old Mutual Alternative Investments, announced in late July that it has reached final close on its third African Infrastructure Investment Fund (AIIF3). The fund raised $320m, making...
Nigeria has endured another long wait for President Muhammadu Buhari to announce his new government. Re-elected in February, Buhari finally swore in members of his new cabinet on 21 August. During the long interim, key officers of state have...
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