African Energy Chamber to open Namibia Office for Local Content and Capacity Building

With Namibia’s energy sector on the precipice of rapid transformation on the back of recent oil and gas discoveries, the African Energy Chamber (AEC) will establish an office in the country dedicated to promoting local content development efforts. The AEC will engage with various stakeholders across the Namibian energy industry, including national and international oil companies, the government and service companies, utilizing a multi-tiered approach to scaling up local talent and capabilities. The office will

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Equatorial Guinea signs 3 Production Sharing Deals with Panoro Energy, Africa Oil Corp

Antonio Oburu Ondo, Equatorial Guinea’s recently appointed Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, has awarded independent exploration and production company, Panoro Energy, a 56% participating interest and operatorship in Block EG-01 offshore the hydrocarbon-rich West African country, as well as Canadian oil and gas company, the Africa Oil Corporation, two production sharing contracts (PSC) for offshore Blocks EG-18 and EG-31. With the PSCs, the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons, under the leadership of Minister Ondo, has

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Energy Revolution Paves the way for Mining in Africa

The global energy sector’s appetite for minerals, many of which can be sourced in Africa, is good news for the future of mining, and was an important focus at this year’s Investing in Mining Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa. However, despite the good news, the pressure on mines is still all about low-cost production. According to Ralf Hennecke, Managing Director of Omnia Group company BME, efforts to decarbonise the world economy are relying on energy technologies that

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Africa’s Energy Crisis Enables African Solutions

Africa’s energy deficit has given rise to African entrepreneurs that are introducing new technologies, especially in solar power, to fill these gaps.    Progression is mostly driven by energy and many regions in the world are quickly running low on means to generate it. With over 600 million people devoid of access to electricity, Africa is a region amid an energy crisis.  Despite Sub-Saharan Africa’s booming population, the region has a an extremely low electrification

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The DRC produced 8.4 Million Barrels of Oil in 2022

The oil industry in the DRC, with Perenco as the main operator, produced 8.430 million barrels of oil during the whole of 2022 against 8.355 million barrels in 2021, a slight drop in production of 25,000 barrels recorded from one year to another, according to figures from the Central Bank of Congo. For the past five years, oil production in the DRC has stagnated around 8 million barrels per year. Hence, the hope of increasing

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Total’s Oil Plans For Uganda, Tanzania an Environmental Blow

Oil giant Total is the majority shareholder in Uganda’s first major oil drilling programme, writes Charlotte Cosset and Juliet Pietri for Radio France Internationale. Uganda discovered crude reserves estimated at 6.5 billion barrels, with 1.4 billion recoverable nearly two decades ago, in the western region in the Lake Albertine basin, Kingfisher and Tilenga oilfields. When production starts, it is estimated that nearly 200,000 barrels can be produced daily. To meet these targets, the project is divided into two parts. The first

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Namibia Led Expenditure on Oil and Gas Exploration in 2022

Statistical data from the world’s energy sector for the year 2022 showed that new global oil and gas discoveries have created the industry’s greatest value over the last decade in terms of oil and gas exploration, with investments in the order of $33 billion to a base price of $60/BBL, which could generate cyclical returns of 22%. This boom in hydrocarbon exploration was led by major discoveries in Namibia, Guyana, Brazil and Algeria. Exploration companies

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Global Oil Demand estimated at 2.33 percent

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) revised, on Tuesday 13th february, slightly upwards the forecast for global oil demand in 2023, estimated at 101.87 million barrels per day, 2.33 percent more than in 2022. The 2.33 percent increase, which represents an increase of 2.32 million barrels per day in consumption from last year’s average of 99.55 million barrels per day, is 100,000 barrels per day or 0 .1 percent higher than the estimate a

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DRC Exported 11.6M carats of Diamonds Worth $145.9M in 2022.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) exported more than 11.6 million carats of diamonds during the year 2022, informs a report from the Ministry of Mines. These exports generated a total amount of 145.9 million US dollars, the same source indicates. Total production in 2022 is 10.255 million carats. Compared to that of the year 2021 which was 12.973 million carats, there is a drop of 2.717 million carats, or 20.94%. Diamond production in the Democratic

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Oil Prices Fall On Renewed Inflation Fears

Crude oil prices started the week with a loss as traders await the latest inflation reading from the United States and the market prices in Russia’s stated plans to reduce oil production by half a million barrels. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is releasing its consumer price index report for January tomorrow but a revision of December figures released last Friday showed that CPI for the last month of 2022 actually increased instead of decreasing

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