Engineering
Sep 26,
2019
Zesco has announced that it will effect a 200 percent tariff hike with effect from October 1, 2019. The increment according to Director of Strategy Patrick Mwila has been necessitated…
Sep 15,
2019
Middle East geopolitics have come back with a vengeance to hit the oil market. What everybody feared has happened. An attack has penetrated the defenses of Saudi Arabia’s massive Abqaiq…
Sep 04,
2019
Ivory Coast's government have signed an agreement with Toyota to build a vehicle assembly plant in the West African nation, the office of Ivorian Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly said…
Sep 03,
2019
Equatorial Guinea is set to construct West Africa’s first LNG storage and regas plant. Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima, Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons announced the plans and said that the…
Aug 30,
2019
Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the state-owned utility that supplies about 95% of South Africa’s power, rejected proposals by National Treasury that it sell some plants to reduce its debt mountain,…
Aug 28,
2019
Noble Energy makes oil discovery in Block I, located in Equatorial Guinea’s offshore sector; The well was drilled to a total depth of 4,417 meters and is expected to produce…
Aug 22,
2019
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the release of N600 billion to the Power Sector. This was disclosed on Wednesday in Abuja by the Market Operator, Transmission Company of Nigeria…
Aug 16,
2019
Tullow Plc has made oil discovery in its Jethro-1 exploration well, drilled on the Orinduik licence offshore in Guyana. The well is expected to hold 100 million barrels of oil…
Aug 13,
2019
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has defended its decision to award a solar producing licence to controversial former Eskom chief executive officer Matshela Koko. Zera acting chief executive officer Eddington…
Aug 10,
2019
Nearly one million people were affected by a major power outage for several hours across areas of England and Wales on Friday, including parts of London, causing rush-hour transportation chaos.…
Aug 10,
2019
Zambia’s mining ministry has asked Glencore subsidiary Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) to rescind its decision to close two shafts at its Nkana site. Mopani announced the shaft closures on Thursday…
Aug 07,
2019
Access to energy plays a critical role in economic development. But bad government policies have affected energy security in many developing countries. It is estimated that two out of three…
Jul 29,
2019
Matshela Energy, which is fronted by South Africa’s power utility Eskom’s former chief executive officer, Engineer Matshela Koko, will invest US$250 million into a solar power plant in Gwanda, with…
Jul 27,
2019
Tanzania is starting the process of building the fourth largest hydro dam in Africa and the ninth largest in the world. Tanzanian President John Magufuli is to lay the foundation…
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