Engineering
Kingsley Ibokette
Jan 17,
2021
Senegal is the hotspot for energy investment in West Africa right now, owing to a string of huge offshore hydrocarbons discoveries since 2014 (as well as its compelling renewables potential).…
Jan 06,
2021
Oil prices rose on Wednesday to their highest since February 2020 after Saudi Arabia agreed to reduce output more than expected in a meeting with allied producers, while industry figures…
Dec 09,
2020
Angola is expected to set oil production at one million and 267 thousand barrels per day in 2021, reducing it's production by 261,000 barrels per day as indicated on OPEC…
The Democratic Republic of Congo is the major source of some of the minerals used to manufacture components in household appliances, mobile phones, electric vehicles and jewellery. The mineral extraction…
Kingsley Ibokette
Nov 19,
2020
The latest Top 25 Movers & Shakers Watch List released earlier this week by the African Energy Chamber highlights how important 2021 will be for the Angolan oil & gas…
Nov 18,
2020
Despite having the largest oil reserves and resources in Africa, Nigeria only benefitted five per cent investment within the last five years. This was disclosed in Abuja yesterday by the…
Oct 13,
2020
Nigeria is to go ahead with a plan to rehabilitate the narrow-gauge railway between Port Harcourt, on the Atlantic coast, and Maiduguri on the border with Chad, a distance of…
Sep 29,
2020
Nigeria’s long-awaited oil reform bill would privatise the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), amend changes to deepwater royalties made late last year and scrap key regulatory agencies in favour of…
Sep 14,
2020
All is set now for the kickoff of the Tanga-Hoima Pipeline, with Tanzania looking to March 2021 for the start of the construction of the $3.5 billion project. This followed…
Kingsley Ibokette
Sep 07,
2020
French Minister for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness, Franck Riester says the planned Nigeria-French refinery is good for both countries. The French Minister for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness, Franck…
Aug 31,
2020
Refineries in Nigeria, Africa’s top oil exporter, processed almost no crude oil in the 13 months to end June, according to the latest data published by the Nigerian National Petroleum…
Aug 24,
2020
Qatar's state-owned oil and gas company Qatar Petroleum has entered into a farm-in agreement for an acquisition of a stake in an offshore block in Angola. Qatar has reached the…
Aug 10,
2020
The Chinese government says there’s no clause in the $500 million loan it gave to Nigeria that include taking over its sovereignty. The House of Representatives had in the…
Jul 23,
2020
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has hailed the "historic" early filling of the massive dam on the Blue Nile River that has stoked tensions with downstream countries Egypt and Sudan.…
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