Browsing: Energy

ENERGY ministers from the G7 industrialised countries have reiterated their commitment to increase access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern…

THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $29.8 million loan to Tanzania to help the country mobilise domestic resources…

GHANA’S new government is looking to fix a crippling power crisis with a complete overhaul of its deficit-ridden energy sector…

THE former Secretary General of the UN, Kofi Annan, has backed African governments’ use of fossil fuels – especially the…

GE Oil & Gas has opened a new facility in Takoradi Port in Ghana, expanding its global footprint and supporting…

A $350 million deal to finance an 80 megawatt (MW) peat to power project in Rwanda, which will improve access…

THREE years after the start of Nigeria’s power privatisation programme, the government is looking to burnish the attractiveness of the…

WITH first production due to begin next year at Kenya’s newly developed oilfields in the north, plans are under way…

THE governments of seven African palm oil producing countries, representing more than seventy percent of Africa’s tropical forest, have pledged…

WHENEVER African countries send out trade delegations to solicit for investments from businesses in developed countries there has always been…

GLOBAL finance mechanisms such as the Green Climate Fund and the Global Environmental Facility must support Africa to adapt to…

OPHIR Energy can go ahead with its Fortuna floating liquefied natural gas project off Equatorial Guinea with or without new…

CAPITAL expenditure by oil majors in sub-Saharan African countries will drop by $100bn over the next five years, analyst firm…

NORWEGIAN integrated independent solar power producer, Scatec Solar and Norfund (the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries), have signed a…

AUTHORITIES in Djibouti are working to increase the share of renewables in the energy mix, with a particular focus on…

JOSE Eduardo dos Santos, Angola’s president since 1979, is facing an inquiry by the country’s Supreme Court over the appointment…

TANZANIA Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC)’s plans to connect over 30,000 households to a gas distribution network has received a boost…

THE Kenya government is considering standardising taxes across all petroleum products to check the activities of criminals substituting kerosene for…

QATAR Petroleum is believed to be interested in taking up stakes in ENI’s Area 4 licence and development project off…

UGANDA’S plan to become energy independent a few years after the first production of crude is likely to be further…