Oryx Energies has just commissioned the first Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinder testing and requalification plant in Tanzania. The country’s first, the plant ensures that the safety and integrity of Oryx Energies LPG cylinders are more easily checked at the regular intervals required to ensure they meet Tanzanian and international safety standards. Cylinders were previously sent to...

Eni has announced that it is expecting to receive a Plan for Development and Operation approval very soon on its offshore natural gas development project in Mozambique. Luca Bertelli (photo), Eni’s Chief Exploration Officer, disclosed this on Tuesday during a conference in Houston. Bertelli added that will move forward with the phase 1 of the development after the approval has been...

Interwaste has inaugurated South Africa’s first refuse-derived-fuel (RDF) plant, which makes fuel from nonrecyclable materials, such as plastic, in so doing decreasing waste to landfill. “In line with global best practice, Interwaste continually invests in innovative solutions that have the most environmentally sound waste management [practices] at its core. It is with this in mind and with...

In Equatorial Guinea, the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy has revealed that Riaba Fertilizers Ltd has granted a Chinese delegation headed by East China Engineering Science and Technology Co. Ltd (ECEC), the EPC contract for a new petrochemicals complex. The delegation was granted the contract at the holding company’s headquarters in Beijing, China. Riaba Fertilizers Ltd. was integrated...

Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) on Tuesday announced that it has entered into a heads of terms with Quantum Power for the construction and operation of the LNG import facilities at Tema. According to GNPC, the project is to have an annual capacity of about 3.40 million tons of LNG (500 Mmscf/d of gas), using a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) anchored 12km offshore...

Equatorial Guinea has launched a new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) plant which will power a number of public buses. This facility was officially unveiled by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the Minister of Mines, Industry and Energy Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima, and executives of the national gas company Sonagas on January 26, 2016. Situated close to the Punta Europa gas complex to the west...

Chevron has announced that once the new commissioning process begins, its $10 billion Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export plant in Angola will ship its first cargo of chilled gas in Q2 of 2016. The LNG export plant was closed in April 2014, 10 months after it sent its first cargo of LNG due to a major break on a flare line. According to the company with the new commissioning underway, gas...

Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC)’s head on Thursday announced plans to construct a mega processing plant soon for natural gas at Likongo in Lindi Region, for the purpose of export. The Managing Director of the corporation, Dr. James Mataragio (photo), revealed that TPDC has before now performed a feasibility study for the project and it would soon commence the laying of...

Clough Ltd and CH-IV international (both Subsidiaries of Murray & Roberts) have been awarded contracts in the oil and gas sector in Korea and the United States. Clough was awarded a contract by Samsung Heavy Industries for hook-up services on the Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project’s central processing facility. The company is to prepare and implementation offshore hook-up...

Ghana Gas has announced that the Atuabo Gas processing plant which was shut down on January 15, 2016, for routine maintenance has resumed operations. The CEO of Ghana Gas Company, George Sipa Yankey, noted that the routine maintenance was successfully concluded nine days ahead of the planned 14 days period. Yankey affirms that the plant currently conveys more than 110 Mmscf of gas to the Aboadze...