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China’s Poly-GCL Petroleum Group Holdings Limited will build a 767 km gas pipeline between Ethiopia’s eastern Ogadem Basin and an export terminal on the Red Sea, Ethiopian Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said. Ethiopian and Djiboutian government officials agreed that Poly-GCL would begin construction of the pipeline project this year, the ministry said. Last April, […]
Renovation works on the hydropower plant of Nangbeto at the border of Togo and Benin will cost about $25 million, officials in charge of the management of the plant disclosed. The Beninese-Togolese joint venture, Communauté Electrique du Bénin (CEB), has appointed Voith to carry out the extensive rehabilitation and modernization works of the hydropower plant. […]
The third electricity link between Morocco and Spain will have a capacity of 700MW bringing the combined commercial capacity of all links to 1500 MW, Spanish grid operator Red Electrica de Espana said. An agreement was signed in that regard last week at a ceremony in Rabat chaired by King Mohammed VI and his guest […]
In Tanzania, Stiegler’s Gorge Dam, due to be built on a Unesco World Heritage site, will cost more than initial estimates, an independent study showed. The 2,100 MW hydroelectric dam at Stiegler’s Gorge, which has been cleared for construction by the National Environmental Management Council (NEMC) will cost twice more than estimated, according to Joerg […]
The Congolese government has inked an agreement with the pan-African investment platform Africa50 to mobilize funds for tripling the capacity of the Congo Power Station. The infrastructure, which currently has a capacity of 300 MW, should increase its capacity to 450 MW then to 900 MW by 2027. Increased production from the station could improve […]
Ghana’s Minister of Finance Ken Ofori Atta last weekend, told investors in Oslo, Norway, that overall crude oil production from Ghana was expected to more than double over the next four years. Addressing the meeting of 20 key international companies, Ofori-Atta, stated that Ghana has re-asserted herself strongly as a key destination for petrochemical industry […]
On the same day the competition council issued a scathing report criticizing the government’s plan to set caps on fuel prices, governance minister responded by discarding the report as political. The council said capping fuel prices would not be beneficial to the Moroccan economy and citizen’s purchasing power. The council also called for more structural […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) have invited bidders to tender for a $10 billion deep-water project in the West African nation. The prospective bidders are invited to submit their applications packages that comprise engineering, procurement, and construction of the Bonga South West/Aparao (BSWA) project. The project […]
A recent report by THEnergy and Voltalia indicates that the use of renewable energy in the African mining sector can realize significant cost savings when employing these power solutions. According to the report, the mining sector has shifted from phase one – where the focus of renewable power adoption was on integrating and testing out […]
The Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) has resumed work on the Monrovia-Bomi Corridor/Liberia Accelerated Electricity Expansion Project-Additional Financing (LACEEP-AF). The move comes after the issuance of the Environmental Social Impact Assessment Permit by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), local media reported. According to the Daily Observer, the project was suspended last year, after the World Bank […]