Scatec Solar, Norfund sign Power Purchase Agreement for Mozambique’s first large scale Solar Plant

Scatec Solar  and Norfund  have signed the Power Purchase Agreement securing  the sale of solar power over a 25 year period to the state owned utility Electricidade de Mozambique (EDM). … Read More

GE, Baker Hughes to Create New Fullstream Digital Industrial Services Company

General Electric and Baker Hughes have announced that the companies have entered into an agreement to combine GE’s oil and gas business and Baker Hughes to create a world-leading oilfield … Read More

Kenya, Sudan sign MoU on Oil and Mining Cooperation

Kenya and Sudan have signed agreements to deepen the two country’s collaboration in oil and mining sector with the East African country hoping to gain from Sudan’s experience in petroleum, … Read More

Why Zarara’s Pate-2 result could Overshadow Tullow’s Early Oil Pilot Scheme

The drilling of Pate-2 well in Lamu County’s Pate Island is set to commence in Q1 2017 same time as the eagerly awaited early oil pilot scheme is set to … Read More

Uganda, Tanzania sign MoU to Hasten Oil Pipeline Project

The Joint Pipeline Development Committee (JPDC) and project steering committee consisting of energy officials from Uganda and Tanzania have agreed to fast track the implementation the implementation of the joint … Read More

Jacka Resources Still Considering Withdrawal from Tanzania’s Ruhuhu Block

Ruhuhu Basin operator Jacka Resources has said it is considering the negotiated withdrawal of Tanzania’s Ruhuhu Block after an unsuccessful farm-out campaign it initiated in September 2014. This is the … Read More

Skills shortages in East Africa opens up opportunities for Scotland trainers

With over 100,000 locals needing to be trained over the next 10 years to support East Africa’s oil and gas, mining and construction ambition, a delegation of 10 Scottish oil … Read More

IPP’s At Menengai Geothermal Project Warned Not To Cause Delays

The Ministry of Energy & Petroleum has given the Menengai Geothermal Project a clean bill of health having confirmed the existence of sufficient steam to feed the proposed 105MW power … Read More

OpEd: Early Oil Pilot scheme (EOPS)an enabler, not a replacement for the Full Field Development

by Andrew Kamau, PS Department of Petroleum; Ministry of Energy & Petroleum The last four years have been the most remarkable period in Kenya’s Oil and Gas industry since exploration … Read More