There is likely to be an increase in power cuts over the next three days with Zesa Holdings yesterday revealing they had lost supplies from the Mozambique electricity grid due to a technical fault on that country's network.
The NNPC said on Monday in Abuja that it was not responsible for the "artificial" fuel queues in Lagos and Abuja. The corporation's spokesman, Dr Levi Ajuonuma, said in a statement that the long queues at the petrol stations since the weekend had nothing to do with the unavailability of the product at the depots.
The government of Burundi has expressed interest in joining the joint DRC-Rwanda exploitation of methane gas on Lake Kivu.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that the nation's crude oil production capacity has recorded a quantum leap in the aftermath of the amnesty programme and the return of peace in the Niger Delta area.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today launched an assessment of the impact of contamination from oil across the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, which has been plagued by local unrest and ecological damage in recent years.
The Ghana Research and Advocacy Programme (G-RAP) chose the theme "Transparency, Accountability and Development of the Oil and Gas Industry in Ghana" for its 2009 Research and Advocacy Organisations (RAOs) convention which ended on Tuesday.
Ghana is said to be in a good position to become a model for oil development in Africa. With a better political climate and regulation framework coupled with an active press, the new sector in Ghana could develop into something big. However, the country must be cautious in order not to neglect other sectors because they are equally important.
Uganda government could earn over US$300million in taxes from the sale of a company disposing of its stake in Uganda's oil fields in Western Uganda, according to highly placed industry source.
POWER utility Eskom has caved in to pressure and reduced its tariff increase application from an initial 45% to 35%.
After more than seven years since Nyanza landfill became Kigali's only garbage site, the Ministry of Infrastructure (MININFRA) and the authorities of Kigali City Council, are putting final touches to plans that will see a German company extract methane gas from the site, The New Times can exclusively reveal.
KenGen has reopened a section of a 40-megawatt power generation unit at Masinga Dam, signalling the high power tariffs linked to the recent surge in thermal power on the national grid may soon begin to ease.
Power utility Eskom has revised its tariff application to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) from 45 percent to 35 percent every year for the next three years.
The government's apparent classification of the contents of the draft governing policy for the oil and gas sub-sector has met the disapproval of Research and Advocacy Organisations (RAOs) as well as key opinion leaders.
TOL Gases Limited has spent a total of Sh3.2 billion since divesture 2005 to put in place the necessary infrastructure to address production and distribution bottlenecks.
Kenya Electricity Generating Company - KenGen on Tuesday signed the contract for the construction of the 120MW Kipevu III power plant.
Kenya is among African, Caribbean and Pacific countries that will compete to benefit from European Union's €200 million (Sh14.9 billion) budget to finance renewable energy projects.
The Chartered Institute of Marketing -Ghana (CIMAG), has called on marketers in the country to reposition themselves as leaders in industry and commerce to promote the new and emerging opportunities that the economy may provide, especially the oil industry. Marketers are, therefore, design to acceptable benchmarks for assessing performance of organizations and other industries.
Last week Rwanda signed one of the world's largest bio-fuel investment deals with an estimated value of US$250 million over the life time of the project.
There are investment opportunities for supplying fuel to the various airlines that fly into the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam.
The energy regulator plans to extend the electricity feed-in-tariff to cover geothermal sources in addition to wind and biomass.
Cooking gas buyers will from Tuesday be free to exchange their cylinders at any Total, OiLibya, KenolKobil, BOC, Shell and National Oil outlets regardless of brand, in a move aimed increasing access to the product and bring down prices.
The blending of petrol with ethanol will be re-introduced in the Kenyan market next March in a move that will cushion motorists against oil products' price volatility and offer local alcohol distillers a bigger market.
African oil output will rise sharply in the coming years if new projects start up as expected and tension continue to ease in heavyweight supplier Nigeria.
Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources Ponatshego Kedikilwe, says that a detailed assessment of the condition of solar panels across Botswana is under way.
A final decision on the building of a R6,5bn concentration solar plant would depend on the availability of funds, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said yesterday.
