Extending the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) to Abidjan has been mooted for many years, but the idea has gained new support in recent months as the pace of exploration offshore Côte d’Ivoire has picked up. An Ivorian energy official told...
The government of prime minister Abdulla al-Thinni, now based in the eastern town of al-Baida, is persisting with its intention to take exclusive control of oil revenues, but faces growing internal divisions of its own. Some powerful Cyrenaican...
The Ukraine crisis has, once more, thrown the European Union’s dependency on Russian gas into question – creating a political context in which, a senior EU official says, “we have no options but Algeria” to secure steady supply. Major...
King Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz ordered a major ministerial reshuffle on 8 December, removing six ministers and naming their replacements, and filling two ministries (health and culture) that were already vacant. The ministers of Islamic affairs,...
After centuries of neglect, the remote Yemeni island of Socotra is slowly building links with the rest of the world. One of four islands and two rocky islets that form an archipelago of the same name to the east of the Gulf of Aden, Socotra was...
The Iraqi federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announced a draft agreement on sharing oil revenues on 2 December, following two days of negotiations between federal Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi and KRG Prime Minister...
Judging by the headlines, 2014 has been a significant year for improving electricity supply in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where only 290m of the 915m population has access and the total number without grid connections is still rising, according to...
Tanzania’s draft gas bill is set to be put before parliament, which began its final session of the year on 4 November. The legislation will provide a regulatory framework for the downstream sector based on the natural gas policy passed late last...
On 4 November, the South African parliament’s Energy Portfolio Committee recommended ratification of the Grand Inga Hydro Project Treaty, which was signed in October 2013 in Kinshasa and approved by South Africa’s cabinet on 22 August 2014.The...
The announcement of preferred bidders in the fourth round of South Africa’s multi-billion dollar renewable energy independent power producer procurement (REIPPP) programme has been put back after third-round preferred bidders suffered further...
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