The government of Mozambique has announced that all measures has been put in place and the country is ready to switch to low-sulphur diesel from starting from June next year. The sulphur content of the diesel being imported by the Southern African country is at 500 parts per million (ppm) but this is to be substituted by diesel with only 50 ppm of sulphur from June. According to the national...

Algeria’s Sonatrach, has signed contracts with Tecnicas Reunidas and Amec Foster Wheeler to carry out studies for two new refinery processing plants. According to Sonatrach's CEO, Amin Mazouzi (photo), the first plant, in Skikda, would process 4.6 million tonnes of fuel oil and 4 million tonnes of naphtha for an annual output of 3.2 million tonnes of diesel and 3.5 million tonnes of gasoline....

Algeria’s state-owned oil company, Sonatrach, is currently in negotiations with several foreign technology partners for the realization of 5 petrochemical joint ventures in the country, Amine Mazouzi (photo), the company’s CEO, revealed. According to Mazouzi, the ventures involve a project of ethane and LPG cracker complex of 1 million tons of ethylene, a project of PDH PP complex with a...

Indigenous oil and gas company, Southfield Petroleum Limited, has signed an Equipment, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract with China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) to build a 250 million standard cubic feet per day gas processing facility in Nigeria. The project, which is worth $198 million, has been planned for completion by 2018 and is expected to be sponsored by the...

In Mozambique, fourteen national and International companies have submitted bids for the development of industrial projects that make use of liquefied natural gas in the country. The tender to select companies interested in the design, development and investment in projects for the use of liquefied gas in initiatives like power generation and the production of fertilizers and liquid fuel for...

South Africa is expected to announce the selected bidders for multi-billion dollar gas-to-power projects by the end of March 2017, a government document has revealed. According to a department of energy memorandum, syndicates were asked in May 2015 to submit plans for the construction of South Africa's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, gas-fired power plants, storage facilities...

In Kenya, Kenol Kobil has signed an agreement with Castrol, a British industrial and automotive lubricant manufacturer regarding the construction of a $15 million lubricant factory in Mombasa. According to oil marketer, the collaboration is the most economical option when compared to importing the product from South Africa, where Kenol Kobil usually gets the commodity from. “The Castrol...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Benue State government with the aim of strengthening their cooperation are reviewing their partnership on a planned ethanol project in the state.This is coming after the President Muhammadu Buhari (photo), as part of efforts to ensure the energy security of the country, directed the NNPC to begin hydrocarbon exploratory activities in the...

Tanzania and a consortium of oil majors, have revealed plan to invest $30 billion in the construction of a gas processing plant that will lead to an economic revolution.According to the country’s Energy Minister, Sospeter Muhongo, the government had already commenced the first phase of work and Tanzanians should expect swift growth in a few years. Tanzania’s Petroleum Development...

Ethiopian Foreign Minister, Tedros Adhanom, has announced that works on a $4 billion cooperative natural gas project between the country, Djibouti, and China will soon be launched. According to Adhanom, the project consists of a natural gas pipeline, a liquefaction plant, and an export terminal at Damerjog, Djibouti. He added that the project is one of numerous areas of cooperation between...