EQUATORIAL GUINEA IS forging ahead with a gas gathering project that it hopes will double the country's output, deepen links with gas-hungry European nations and provide electricity to Cameroon. Germany's E.ON Ruhrgas, Spain's Union Fenosa and Portugal's Galp Energia will help state gas company Sonagas complete a draft gas master plan for Equatorial Guinea by the end of the summer, according to Gabriel Obiang Lima, Deputy Mines and Energy Minister.

DANA PETROLEUM HAS made a significant gas discovery at Anchois in the Tanger-Larache licence off Morocco. The Anchois-1 well lies about 40 km from the coast and was drilled to a total depth of 2435 m.

SPAIN'S REPSOL YPF has racked up its seventh gas discovery in the Algerian sector of the Sahara desert.

DOMINION GAS IS planning to open a new gas plant in Ghana. The firm anticipates that investment will exceed US$2.2mn and intends for the plant to be operational by June 2009.