According to the Commission, out of about 17 oil blocks sold between 2013 and 2016, 13 of the blocks still exist without any exploration activity making the country lose huge investments in the sector. Answering questions on the development at a press briefing, Chief Executive of the Petroleum Commission, Egbert Faibile Junior disclosed that the…
Ghana may not be able to flourish like other oil producing countries even after a century, if the proceeds from its oil and gas sector are not properly accounted for. That’s according to the Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Dr. Steve Manteaw. According to him, the lack of transparency and accountability…
Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo revealed last week that the country was now a net exporter of electricity. Akufo-Addo made the announcement in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, at the inauguration of the Bolgatanga-to-Ouagadougou Power Interconnection Project. The project will see up to 100 MW per day of electricity supplied from northern Ghana to Burkina…
The Minister of power, works and housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday, said the electricity problem in Nigeria “is slowly being solved, one by one” and cannot be solved by magic. Fashola disclosed this during the inauguration of the 2x100MVA, 132/33kV power transformers at the Ejigbo Transmission Substation in Lagos and the handover of the expanded…
ANED said this in a statement on Sunday in response to Fashola’s accusation that the body was not known to the government and its spokesperson, Sunday Oduntan, was an interloper. The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors has accused the Minister of Power, Works and Housing of spending $5.6 million to generate 1megawatt of electricity instead of…
The City of Cape Town is working its plans to establish an appropriate business model to stimulate the uptake of solar photovoltaic systems. This announcements follows the need for aggressive renewable energy targets. The number of increasing customers installing rooftop solar photovoltaic infrastructure is evident and the costs are perceived to be prohibitive by most…
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) aims to partner with a metropolitan council and a district municipality to compile pilot municipal energy master plans for electricity (MEMPs), which will provide the two councils with insight into the best electricity supply blends for their respective grids. CSIR Energy Centre head Dr Clinton Carter-Brown tells…
South Africa’s power sector plans envisage a big role for gas, but first the country needs to find the feedstock South Africa is on the hunt for gas supply to realise its ambitions to shift its power sector from one based almost entirely on heavily polluting coal to a cleaner set-up relying largely on renewable…
Plans to prospect for gas and oil off KwaZulu-Natal’s coast came under fire at public hearings last week. In Durban it got rowdy with people chanting, “Go back to Italy” and “No Oil or Gas”. People who wanted to discuss the draft environmental impact assessment (EIA), commissioned by Eni, the Rome-based multinational, were frustrated. Eni’s…
… to invest in the gas value chain …set to sign MoUs with investors on NOGAPS Players in the gas sector should canvass for speedy implementation of existing policies and pursue the delivery of identified gas opportunities, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Wabote has said. He…
