Africa

As COVID-19 bashes economies and demand for oil plummets, is this a moment to think green - or pump faster? As the COVID-19 pandemic bashes economies and demand for oil, many African nations dependent on exporting fossil fuels are "haemorrhaging" cash, African energy...

The 23 countries signatory to the Declaration of Cooperation have started in the beginning of July the second phase of production reduction to support oil prices, in accordance with the agreement of OPEC+ of last April.   Source: Algerie Presse Service

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday kicked against the new fuel price of N143.80k announced by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA). They described the fuel price hike, which PPPRA announced on...

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved today a $43 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) for The Gambia's Electricity Restoration and Modernisation Project (GERMP). The additional financing was made available through...

Aïssata Ba, 45-year-old widow and mother of seven children, has been practising market gardening for the past 30 years in Lompoul Sur Mer village in the Niayes area of north-west Senegal. For many women in the village, endowed with fertile soil and favourable climate,...

Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario on Wednesday called for greater commitment from the publicly owned electricity company, EDM, to guarantee implementation of the company's strategic projects. Rosario was speaking during the ceremony at which the...

President Muhammadu Buhari will tomorrow (Tuesday) officially inaugurate the construction of the first phase of the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) project, a 614kilometre-long natural gas pipeline, being developed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The...

The subcontracting and Partnership Exchange of Cameroon, BSTP in collaboration with the Standards and quality Agency, ANOR, on Wednesday June 24, at the Hotel Vallée des Princes in Douala, organised a seminar on the norms immediately application in the oil and gas...

In a country where off grid power supply to homes through gas, diesel, and petrol generators accounts for as high as 20 gigawatts of total power, innovation is needed to provide convenience and highest delivery standard. Bringing that innovation into the last mile of...

The government of South Sudan and two mining companies have been barred from operating and exporting oil due to spills that have polluted the environment. South Sudan's Minister for Justice, the Greater Pioneer Operating Company (GPOC) and Dar Petroleum Operating...