The National Electricity Company of Ghana has announced that the country’s power crisis looks set to continue until January 2013
Gas
Statoil awards KBR Tanzanian LNG pre-FEED contract
KBR has been awarded a contract by Statoil Tanzania to perform pre-front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) studies for a prospective LNG facility in Tanzania
Molopo wins South Africa’s first onshore gas production right
Molopo South Africa Exploration, a division of Molopo Energy, has been awarded production rights over an area of approximately 200,000 ha in the Free State province, becoming the first onshore gas production rights to be awarded in South Africa
Tanzania secures loan from China for gas pipeline construction
Tanzania has secured a US$1.2bn loan from China to finance the construction of a 230km natural gas pipeline linking Mtwara gas fields and Dar es Salaam
Kinetiko Energy to start South African test drilling
Kinetiko Energy has announced that it is to start the first production test well at its Amersfoort coal seam gas project in South Africa by the end of September