South Africa: Clarity on Petroleum Bill Needed to Drive Growth
By James Chester, Senior Director AOP A lot has changed in the past year. One thing that has remained constant is the state of stasis of South Africa’s new petroleum … Read More
Tag: Mozambique
7th edition of MMEC, Mozambique’s Mines, Energy, Oil and Gas event Set for April 2021
The Joaquim Chissano Conference Centre will host the 7th edition of the biennial event on Mining, Oil, Gas and Energy of Mozambique, which will take place from 21 to 22 April 2021. The conference … Read More
What happens to the African Energy Industry if Western Lenders cut off Loans for Fossil Fuel Projects?
By NJ Ayuk A little more than a year ago, in November 2019, the European Investment Bank (EIB) declared its intention to phase out funding for fossil fuels. Specifically, it said … Read More
Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited Announces £6,000,000 Placing
Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited has announced that: • COPL has closed a non-brokered private placement of Units with institutional investors, family office, high net worth private investors, the Company’s Chief … Read More
The UK’s Decision to Halt Funding for New Oil & Gas Projects Ill-founded and Counter productive
The United Kingdom has recently declared that it will stop support and funding to any new oil, gas and coal projects on the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement. While this … Read More
Are African Development Bank (AfDB)’s financing policies climate-friendly?
(By Wangeci Migwi, Amy Giliam and Nicole Rodel) With the climate crisis threatening over half of the global GDP, there can be no business-as-usual when the world begins to plan … Read More
Gas Industry Opportunities can revive Mozambique’ s Special Relationship with Germany
Mozambique and Germany have a special relationship, that was formalised when the German Democratic Republic established diplomatic relationships with the then newly independent Republic of Mozambique in 1975. Since then, … Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Don’t ignore African lives being devastated by Mozambique LNG
By Ilham Rawoot, Justica Ambiental Mr NJ Ayuk’s misleading article suggests that ‘self serving’, Western environmentalists are blocking Mozambique from the transformation he claims Mozambique LNG will deliver. In doing … Read More
German Investors announce Mozambique Investment Mission targeting LNG, other gas projects and services
Germany’s economic commitment to Mozambique will further be strengthened as the Germany Africa Business Forum (“GABF”) embarks on a three-day trade mission to encourage, promote, and facilitate trade and investment … Read More
NIGERIA: Canadian Overseas Petroleum Operations Update
Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited has announces that further to the announcement of its second quarter results on 15th September 2020, COPL is giving an update on its drilling licence extension for … Read More