Africa Oil Week looked to the future of the energy sector through a topical session entitled Energy Transition Outlook to 2050 CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 8, 2018/ — Africa Oil Week (www.Africa-OilWeek.com) – the leading event dedicated to the African oil and gas industry hosted a live broadcast by CNBC Africa focusing on the…
The African Energy Chamber congratulates Angola on becoming the sixth African country to join the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), after Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, November 15, 2018/ — The GECF (www.GECF.org) has been at the forefront of promoting the use of natural gas as an affordable and sustainable fuel of choice…
The Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference kicked off yesterday, Monday. This year’s event, unlike previous years, has a session with an African focus. It is coming just after a busy week where the Africa Oil Week and the Africa Investment Forum just ended in South Africa. AOW and AIF events witnessed investors throng…
In a bid to adequately regulate the petroleum industry and promote transparency and accountability, the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has launched Value Monitoring and Benchmarking (VMB) as a tool to exercise oversight and control over output activities. Mr. Mordecai Ladan, the Director of DPR, said in Lagos at the launch that the VMB of…
Eskom has indicated that the risk of nation-wide electricity outages had increased significantly due to a sharp fall in coal stockpiles at five of its power stations. Speaking to Reuters, Eskom spokesman Khulu Phasiwe said that the risk of cuts was not specific to one area but was a national issue. “The risk of load shedding…
The Angolan State Minister for Economic and Social Development, Manuel Nunes Junior, the Chairman and CEO of Total, Patrick Pouyanné, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sonangol, Carlos Saturnino, inaugurated the Kaombo project today, which came on stream in July and is located deep offshore on Block 32, 260 kilometers off the…
Nigeria-based energy firm Sahara Group (SPG) and the Ministry of Energy and Dams agreed to develop infrastructures of the power sector in South Sudan. South Sudan has the lowest per capita electricity consumption in Africa, 1 to 3 kWh. This situation is mainly attributed to the underdeveloped energy infrastructure in the young nation, which has…
The estimated monetary loss in Nigeria’s power sector has risen to N460.3bn in 2018 alone. The data obtained from the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing in Abuja on Friday showed that between January 1 and November 8, 2018, the sector lost N460.253bn. The FMPWH explained that the huge financial loss was due to…
Eland Oil & Gas has announced, through its joint-venture subsidiary Elcrest Exploration and Production Nigeria, that the Honourable Minister of Petroleum Resources has consented to Elcrest’s renewal of its equity participation in Oil Mining Lease 40 (‘OML 40’), for a further 20 years, taking effect on 22 October 2018. The consent is conditional on Elcrest…
As part of its strategic aspirations to drive maximum value from Nigeria’s abundant natural gas resources, the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Mailkanti Kacalla Baru, has said the Federal Government was targeting 10 percent of the world’s market share in traded Liquefied National Gas (LNG). Baru, who stated this at NNPC…
