Energy in Central Africa

  • Congo: Total abandons oil field citing decrease in global oil prices

    CONGO BRAZZAVILLE, 2016/07/04   French oil company Total has decided to abandon its ‘‘Pointe-Noire Grand Fonds’‘ oil field in the Republic of Congo, citing the decrease in world oil prices, Jeune Afrique has reported. According to Total officials, 15 to 20 million dollars had been spent on this project yearly which produces about 12,500 barrels per day.

  • Combined cycle power plant project in Soyo, Angola, expected to cost US$900 million

    ANGOLA, 2016/03/26 The Combined Cycle Power Plant project in Soyo, Angola, will cost an estimated US$900 million and the natural gas-fired is expected to start operating in 2017, said Angola’s Minister for Energy and Water. This project includes several substations and transmission lines and will produce 750 megawatts of electricity, which will be able to supply much of the country’s energy needs, whether household or industrial. Minister João Baptista Borges, who Monday visited the high voltage and very high voltage substations in the city of Nzeto (Zaire province), of Capari and Catete, both in Luanda, said that the substations would be completed by the end the initial half of 2016.

  • Gabon looks longer term for oil benefits

    GABON, 2015/12/27 While the hydrocarbons sector continues to account for the majority of Gabon’s export revenues and remains one of the economy’s key drivers, plateauing production has prompted efforts to encourage new exploration, with some early success. After a decline in production from around 370,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 1997 to 236,000 bpd in 2013, oil production held steady last year at 236,000 bpd, according to BP’s “Statistical Review of World Energy” from June, despite the sharp fall in oil prices since mid-2014. Gabon is seeking to stabilise production around 250,000 bpd in the short term through new smaller discoveries and enhanced oil recovery techniques, before doubling production by 2025.

  • 80 municipalities will have electricity by 2017 in Angolan

    ANGOLA, 2015/06/28 By 2017 the Angolan National Rural Electrification Programme will ensure access to electricity in 86 municipal headquarters and 124 communal headquarters across the country, said Thursday in Lisbon the President of the Institute for the Regulation of Electricity Sector (IRSE). Luis Mourão da Silva, speaking at the Energy for Development Conference of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Nations, said the National Rural Electrification Programme, conducted at the same time as other social development programmes, will increase Angolan agricultural production.

  • Energy Development - Central Africa Seeks Interconnection

    AFRICA, 2014/11/06 Ten nations of Central Africa are seeking ways of associating efforts and infrastructure to maximize the enormous energy potentials it has and journey the region out of darkness and under development. A 2014-2030 mutual strategy drafted by the Central African Power Pool (CAPP) with technical expertise of the European Union is under validation in a four-day workshop that began in Yaounde yesterday November 4 under the patronage of the Minister of Water Resources and Energy. Speaking during the opening ceremony, the Permanent Secretary of CAPP, Jean Chrysostome Mekondongo, said target is to federate efforts, maximize potentials and journey out of underdevelopment. He said there are two categories of projects concerned with the strategy. These include priority integrating projects and trans-border interconnection projects. "This document is a fundamental tool for putting in place medium and long-term community energy development strategy," he said.

  • Nigerian Minister of National for Power, Alhaji Mohammed Wakili

    CONGO KINSHASA, 2014/03/26 Towards conference its electricity needs, the Nigerian Government has signed a Memorandum of Considerate (MoU) to purchase power from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country currently targeting at least 40,000 megawatts of electricity from its dams. Nigerian Minister of National for Power, Alhaji Mohammed Wakili, told an investors' conference, organized by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), in Abuja on Monday that some of the electricity to be bought from Congo would as well be exported to some neighbouring nations where Nigeria's transmission network expands to. The conference was organised to lure foreign investors to Nigeria’s transmission network.

  • Angola LNG supplying liquid natural gas to China’s CNOOC group

    ANGOLA, 2013/08/15 The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) will on 18 August receive the initial shipment of liquid natural gas (LNG) from Angola, transported by the ship Cubal, which is able to carry 155,000 cubic metres. The Bloomberg agency reports that the ship was loaded at the Angola LNG terminal in Soyo on 14 July and is the initial of two shipments to China.

  • United States plans to establish partnerships with Angola in energy sector

    ANGOLA, 2013/08/15 The United States Energy Department plans to establish partnerships with the Angolan government in the energy sector, the assistant secretary for international affairs, David Sandaloy said in Cabinda, northern Angola, Monday. Sandaloy, who was visiting Cabinda, noted the importance of boosting economic cooperation between Angola and the United States. “We have common interests in the energy sector and we transaction with a variety of issues about oil and gas production, and as well electricity production,” he said.

  • Luanda Distribution Company (EDEL)

    ANGOLA, 2013/08/09 An electricity substation under the Luanda Distribution Company (EDEL), with an initial capacity to supply 2,500 customers was inaugurated Wednesday by Luanda governor, Bento Sebastião Bento. Based in Ramiro commune, Belas municipality, the AKz 600.5 trillion (Usd 1,00 is Akz 100,00) project lasted one year to build. The electric substation will as well allow the construction of seven power transformation posts.

  • The Angolan Energy Secretary of National, Joaquim Ventura

    ANGOLA, 2013/07/13 The Angolan Energy Secretary of National, Joaquim Ventura, Wednesday began a working visit to Cuba, aimed at reinforcing the cooperation between the two nations in the field of energy, PANA learnt from a communiqué issued Thursday by the Angolan Energy and Water ministry. According to the communiqué, Ventura has by presently met with the Cuban Minister of Energy and Mining, Alfredo Lopez, with whom he discussed the existing agreement between the two States on energy.
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