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  • Mozambique

Mozambique to Export First LNG as Global Natural-Gas Prices Soar

Mozambique is poised to ship its first cargo of liquefied natural gas overseas, joining the ranks of the world’s exporters as a global energy crunch pushes prices of the fuel Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Aug 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • EU
  • Mozambique

EU Boosts Military Funding To Mozambique To Secure Gas Projects

As the EU grapples with an energy crisis and seeks alternatives to Russian pipeline gas, the bloc plans to increase its financial support to a military mission in Mozambique – Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Aug 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • East Africa

East African Governments Clash With Environmentalists Over New Oil Pipeline

The controversial East African Crude Oil Pipeline being built in Uganda and Tanzania is facing harsh criticism from environmentalists. East African governments are hopeful about how the project could help Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jul 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kenya

Kenya: Fuel Prices Could Increase Further as Govt Subsidy is Gradually Removed – Treasury

 The National Treasury now says fuel prices could increase further in the near future as the government seeks to gradually remove the subsidy cushioning Kenyans against high cost. In a Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Jun 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kenya

Africa: Fuel Shortage Crisis – Who is Responsible?

 Kenya’s recent fuel crisis has left petrol pumps dry. Politicians are blaming each other and giving varied reasons for the shortage, from the government being inept to government plans to Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Ethiopia

Driest Conditions in 40 Years Seen Continuing in Horn of Africa

 A weather phenomenon over the Indian Ocean is exacerbating the driest conditions in more than four decades in the Horn of Africa that may continue for the rest of the Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • East Africa

Marsh revealed in oil pipeline project shunned by leading banks and insurers

Marsh McLennan is arranging insurance for a controversial east African oil pipeline, putting the world’s largest broker at the center of a project that has been shunned by major banks Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kenya

Worsening Drought Leaves 3.5 Million Needing Food Aid in Kenya

A family migrates in search of grazing land in Wajir County, Kenya. A worsening drought has left 3.5 million people in need of food aid in Kenya. The number of Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Ethiopia
  • Somalia

Horn of Africa ravaged by worst drought in four decades

When the last of his 250 goats died, pastoralist Abdullahi Abdi Wali knew it was time to flee what he calls the “worst drought” in his 99 years of life. Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • East Africa
  • Pipelines

Africa’s Most Controversial Oil Pipeline Is Hanging In The Balance

TotalEnergies’ controversial East African Crude Oil Pipeline is gaining traction, despite environmentalist pushback. The EACOP is expected to be the world’s longest electrically heated oil pipeline, running from Uganda to Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • East Africa

East African oil pipeline hits the headwinds

Climate activists are urging more banks and insurers not to back the controversial $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline that is primed to transport oil from the Hoima oilfields Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kenya

Kenya: Fuel Shortage Continues to Bite With Long Queues at Petrol Stations

The countrywide shortage of petrol continued to be felt on Monday despite the Government cautioning players in the market against hoarding the commodity. An immediate impact of the acute shortage Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kenya

Fuel Shortages Hit Kenya as Government Delays Subsidy Payment

 Queues at gas stations in Kenya grew longer over the weekend as delayed payments of subsidies meant to stabilize fuel prices led to gasoline shortages across the East African nation. Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe to Cut Water Supply for 48 Hours to Second-Largest City

Zimbabwe’s second largest city, Bulawayo, will be without water supply for 48 hours due to worsening power outages that is affecting the southern African nation. The water shedding is “prompted Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Nov 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sudan

South Sudan Warns It May Suspend Oil Output as Exports Blocked

South Sudan’s government warned it may suspend oil output if port protests in neighboring Sudan that have blocked shipments of the landlocked nation’s crude continue. Demonstrators have forced a halt Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Sep 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda

Tanzania-Uganda Pipeline Agreement ‘A Boon for All’

Dar es Salaam — Tanzania and Uganda’s private sector partnership have agreed on four issues that need addressing if local businesses in the two countries are to benefit from the Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Sep 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Utility to Cut Power by 12 Hours a Day Amid Shortage

The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Co. said Sunday it has begun daily 12-hour power cuts due limited generation at its thermal plant and repairs on the dam at Kariba Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Sep 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • East Africa
  • West Africa

Annual Reserve Revisions Part VI: Sub-Saharan OPEC Members

A guest post by George Kaplan IOC Reserves and Production About the only place where properly audited estimates for OPEC’s claimed reserves are available is sub-Saharan Africa, principally Nigeria and Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Aug 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Uganda

Uganda’s Oil Boom Is Only Just Beginning

Uganda is set to be a key focus of African Energy Week (AEW) in Cape Town this November, as its flourishing oil industry looks set to boom in the coming Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Aug 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kenya

Kenya Aims to Double Geothermal Capacity by 2030

When Kenya opened the Olkaria power plant four decades ago, it was considered more research project than commercial venture. Located in Hell’s Gate National Park, a barren zone of volcanic Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Aug 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

Insurgents Repelled From TotalEnergies Mozambique LNG Area | OilPrice.com

Security forces from Rwanda and Mozambique have taken the Mozambican port city of Mocímboa da Praia from insurgents, whose attacks in the area forced France’s giant TotalEnergies to suspend a Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Aug 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

Mozambique’s gas ambitions rest on distant hope of peace

The future of Mozambique’s gas ambitions hinges on its ability to end a deadly insurgency linked to Islamic State, but if peace is the answer the southern African country and Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Jul 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Uganda

Could East Africa Become The Next Major Oil Hotspot?

The last 18 months have seen very few large-scale oil projects moving from a prospect status into an entire region’s next best thing. The Lake Albert project in Uganda is Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Jun 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Faces Prolonged Power Outages After Surge Hits Plants

Lake Kariba dam between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe faces prolonged power outages after a surge in electricity imports from neighboring South Africa overloaded its network and caused generating plants to Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jun 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sudan

Sudanese Protest Lifting of Fuel Subsidies

Sudanese protesters burned tires in part of the capital, Khartoum, Wednesday night, after the government lifted all subsidies on gasoline and diesel. Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim announced Tuesday that prices Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Jun 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • East Africa

The Most Exciting Oil And Gas Play On The Planet? Interview with Bill Mooney

As Reconnaissance Energy Africa continues to excite investors and industry experts alike, we sat down with the man responsible for what could be the next major development in this story. Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Jun 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Uganda

East Africa: Ugandan President Emphasizes Wise Use of Oil Revenues

 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday said oil revenues must be invested in avenues that create jobs and wealth. The Ugandan president said since oil is an exhaustible resource, revenues Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • East Africa

East Africa: Tanzania-Uganda Concludes Multi-Billion Oil Deal

Tanzania and Uganda have signed the fifth crucial Host Government Agreement (HGA) that finally allows the construction of a 4.16billion US dollars heated pipeline to carry crude oil from western Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

Mozambique Delays Could Disrupt Global LNG Market

The global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market, which was set to be constantly loose in the second part of this decade, is instead set to get tighter and could even Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

EU considers training mission to steady Mozambique

The European Union will consider sending a civilian training mission to Mozambique to help the government withstand a growing insurgency, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday. Mozambique’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • East Africa

East Africa: Kenyan, Tanzanian Presidents Sign Pipeline Deal

Kenya and Tanzania have signed a deal for a gas pipeline that will run between the coastal cities of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam. The signing took place Tuesday, as Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Uganda

Uganda Set To Launch Tenders On Massive Oil Project In December

The Petroleum Authority of Uganda will launch in December the first key tenders for the long-awaited oil resources development project in the East African country, which cleared a major hurdle Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

Total Forced To Halt $20B Mozambique LNG Project After Militant Attacks

France’s supermajor Total declared force majeure on Monday on its US$20-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique following recent Islamist militant attacks in towns close to the site. The Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

France’s Total declares force majeure on Mozambique LNG project

 France’s Total has declared force majeure on its Mozambique LNG project and removed all staff from the site on the Afungi Peninsula, it said April 26.  Total had already suspended Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda

East Africa: ‘My House Is Crumbling’ – Living in Limbo Along the East Africa Pipeline

People along the route of the proposed 1,443 km oil pipeline talk of confusion, uncertainty and lives on hold. Following the recent signing of accords, the construction of a hugely Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

Can Mozambique Defend Its Crucial Gas Assets?

Mozambique has been rightly considered one of the most promising new frontiers of gas production in the world, the Rovuma Basin that is located along the border of Tanzania and Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda

The Story Behind The World’s Longest Electrically Heated Oil Pipeline

Uganda has signed a landmark deal with Tanzania for the construction of the world’s longest electrically heated crude oil pipeline, working in partnership with French oil supermajor Total. The 1440km Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda

Tanzania: Ugandans Criticize Oil Pipeline Deal With Tanzania and Total

President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. Ugandans are making disparaging comments on social media about the multibillion-dollar oil pipeline deal that the country has Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

GE, PowerChina Hydro Project on Zambia-Zimbabwe Border Delayed

The developers of a $4 billion hydropower plant on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border delayed the project until next year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Pre-construction work on the Batoka Gorge project Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Uganda

Total Signs Agreements with Uganda on East Africa Oil Project

A Total petrol station in Kampala Uganda. Total SE signed agreements along with Ugandan officials for an oil development set to transform the East African nation into a significant crude Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Uganda

East Africa: New Dawn As Govt, Oil Firms Seal Deal to Kick Off Production

Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, right, gestures during a meeting with Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan that preceded the signing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Tripartite Project Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia
  • Sudan

Egypt, Ethiopia Tensions Escalate as Nile Dam Talks Falter

Tensions are rising between Egypt and Ethiopia as Addis Ababa moves closer to diverting water to a massive hydroelectric project on the Nile that has been a center of a decade-long dispute Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

‘Some hid in the sea’: Islamist attack on Mozambique town a turning point in Africa’s ignored war

French group Total suspends work at gas plant near Palma despite authorities’ claims order has been restored. The attack bore all the hallmarks of the Islamist insurgents that have terrorised Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

Mozambique: Total Decides On Total Recall of All Staff From Troubled Afungi Gas Project

The future of the $60-billion project is now in doubt. The French Energy company Total withdrew all its personnel from its Afungi liquid natural gas (LNG) facility near Palma, on Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

Mozambique: Total Abandons Afungi Which is Now Under Attack

The Mozambican army has been battling insurgents since 2017. Total on Friday abandoned its installations on Afungi peninsula. All Total staff have been withdrawn, unlike the closure on 1 January Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

Mozambique Says Total’s LNG Project Is Safe From Militants

A US$20-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project led by France’s Total in Mozambique is beyond the reach of Islamic state-aligned insurgents who started last week a coordinated attack near the Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

Mozambique: Total Pulls Out Again and Puts Onus on Government

“The remobilization of the project that was envisaged at the beginning of the week is obviously now suspended,” Total said In a statement Saturday (27 Mar) “Total has decided to Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

Mozambique: Frelimo Lost Its Gas Gamble

Frelimo bet the country on gas – and has just lost the bet. The Frelimo leadership was dazzled by the gas, and believed Mozambique would be like Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

Mozambique: SADC Grapples With Response While Mercenaries, Energy Companies and Civilians Quit Mozambique’s Islamic State Crisis

Fighting continues in the Cabo Delgado town of Palma and concerns are growing that Mozambique may never be able to pacify the area enough to enable the return of Total Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Mozambique

Who are the rebels in northern Mozambique?

With more than a week of fierce fighting including beheaded bodies in the streets, the battle for the northern Mozambique town of Palma has highlighted the southern Africa country’s insurgency Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple

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