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La compagnie pétrolière nationale publique algérienne, la Sonatrach, est passée à la vitesse supérieure dans son plan de développement qui prévoit 68 milliards de dollars d’investissements en 4 ans : elle a en effet signé un accord avec un consortium mené par la compagnie pétrolière espagnole Repsol pour le développement d’un projet gazier comportant six nouveaux champs dans la région de Reggane Nord.
Avec une stratégie de développement économique qui repose essentiellement sur une diversification industrielle grande consommatrice d’électricité, le secteur de l’électricité gabonais, qui connaît déjà des difficultés avec la charge existante, devra accroître grandement sa production (qui selon les estimations, s’établit entre 374 MW et 414 MW) s’il veut soutenir cette croissance.
With its large and growing population, expanding economy and sizeable industrial sector, Egypt is an energy-hungry country, and demand for electricity is forecast to double within the next decade and a half. To meet soaring consumption, the country has long been preparing to increase capacity through the construction of several power plants.
The privatisation of Nigeria’s power sector continues to ease forward, with the Ministry of Power now expecting the process to be completed by the second or third quarter of 2012. Meanwhile, in December the government licensed 20 independent power producers (IPPs), in a move that could significantly boost the country’s power-generating capacity over the next few years.
For a country that a few years ago was pumping less than 1000 barrels of oil per day (bpd), Ghana’s upstream oil and gas industry has undergone a massive change. As it begins only its second year of production, Ghana’s oil segment is poised to earn GHS1.24bn ($827.85m) in revenue in 2012, while accelerating activity in the gas sector in the coming months will help improve both the sustainability of the hydrocarbons industry as well as the country’s balance sheet.
La production marocaine de phosphates et de produits dérivés, comme les engrais, devrait connaître une hausse considérable. En effet, l’Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP), qui détient le monopole de l’exploitation des phosphates au Maroc, vient de lancer un vaste programme d’investissement, dont le financement sera en grande partie assuré par l’introduction en bourse d’obligations.

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