Developer Tempus Constant Qualitas (TCQ) Power is aiming for financial close in July on the 57MW first phase of its heavy fuel oil plant for Freetown, which will be Sierra Leone’s first independent power project. TCQ chief executive Karim Nasser...
The Department of Energy (DoE) issued a new determination in April stating that 3,750MW will be procured from cross-border coal power projects, as set out in the 2010 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). However, contrary to the IRP – which stated...
Power, works and housing minister Babatunde Fashola, one of Nigeria’s two so-called super-ministers, has outlined a gradual and holistic approach to resolving the power crisis. Speaking in Lagos on 6 May, Fashola said the focus would be on...
Angola’s opposition União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (Unita) has repeated its accusations that the government has diverted billions of dollars in oil revenues. While bankers are sceptical about the sums cited by the party, the...
The much-anticipated national LNG development plan is going ahead with a strengthened advisory team and revised targets, working to new bid deadlines, which take account of the ambitious integrated project’s scale and follow officials’ analysis...
Anadarko Petroleum has said the Paon-5A horizontal well drilled to appraise the 2012 Paon discovery on Block CI-103 encountered nearly 100 feet of pay. The well, drilled by the Dolphin Drilling drillship Bollette Dolphin, was Anadarko’s first...
Kosmos Energy has announced another gas discovery with the Teranga-1 exploration well in Senegal’s Cayar Offshore Profond Block. The well was drilled to a total depth of 4,485 metres in nearly 1,800 metres of water and encountered 31 metres of...
Forces in Cyrenaica opposed to the United Nations-imposed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli have provoked a definitive challenge to its authority by blockading oil exports from the only major terminal still working in Libya. The...
Investigative journalist Tom Bower’s much-anticipated biography of former UK prime minister Tony Blair does not pull its punches, even if some fail to strike home. Tracing Blair’s lucrative career since leaving 10 Downing Street – still a subject...
Two days before his favoured son Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) was due to launch his Vision 2030 for the kingdom, King Salman issued a royal decree relieving electricity and water minister Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al-Hussein of...
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