A court in Lebanon has ordered the arrest of 17 people, including the Chief of Sonatrach Petroleum (SPC), a subsidiary of Algeria’s state-run oil comp...
State-run Sonatrach inks exploration & partnership MoU with Exxon
Gas and oil giant Sonatrach has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US Exxon to identify exploration opportunity in the North African coun...
African Union, IRENA to advance renewables in response to COVID-19
The African Union Commission (AUC) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) have agreed to work closely to advance renewable energy acros...
Guinea: AfDB supports rural electrification with over €760,000
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has just awarded a grant of nearly €762,000 to Guinea. The amount, granted through the AfDB Sustainable Energy Fun...
ROSATOM inks long-term contract for supply of nuclear fuel components to ETRR-2 reactor in Egypt
Russian Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP), an enterprise of ROSATOM’s TVEL Fuel Company, and the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority have si...
Iraq: Rockets attacks targets US oil company in Basra
Several Katyusha landed near a US oil company in Iraq’s oil crescent of Basra province Monday according to the army. The army in a statement said at l...
São Tomé and Principe: AfDB approves €12.46 million to support energy transition
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved €12.46 million to support the Energy Transition and Institutional Support Program (ETISP) of Sã...
AfDB allocates €62M for rural electrification in Côte-d’Ivoire
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has granted a loan of €62.35 million to Côte d’Ivoire, the bank said in a statement. The funds are intended ...
Algeria, a collateral in Saudi-Russian oil price war
Algeria could be one of the countries whose economy could crash on the back of low oil prices as a result of the price war between Russia and Saudi Ar...
SDX Energy announces commercial gas findings in Northern Morocco
British company SDX Energy announced commercial gas findings during a recent drilling operation in northern Morocco, describing the discovery as excel...