Discoveries of new elephantine deposits of hydrocarbons in South America and East Africa in recent years have tended to overshadow developments along Africa’s oil-producing Western coast, but new discoveries in deep offshore areas along the coast of countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea offer significant promise. While OPEC’s two sub-Saharan members,...
Infrastructure development is of the utmost importance to fuel sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth. Nowhere is the need for expanded infrastructural capacity more important or more visible than in the area of power production, particularly in generation and distribution. The hum of diesel generators from Lagos to Nairobi is a constant reminder of the poor state of the...
The governing legislation for Ghana’s hydrocarbons sector was first passed in 1984, at a time when production was minimal. As a result, the discovery of far larger reserves and production potential in 2007 necessitated an overhaul of the country’s regulatory framework to accommodate everything from new revenues to environmental oversight. “Collectively, the legislation...
Roughly seven years after the discovery of oil, Ghana’s hydrocarbons sector has seen significant growth in terms of both production and infrastructure. Yet the industry is still very much a work in progress, with potential for investment across the value chain. The past few years have been busy ones, as the country needed to create an enabling environment for the sector from...
Over the past year the shortfall in Egypt’s electricity capacity has become increasingly apparent, with load-shedding becoming a regular occurrence. The government has aggressively sought to address the issue with demand-side management, from a reintroduction of the daylight savings time regime, which had been dropped in 2011, to an initiative to replace standard light bulbs...
Solar energy has played a secondary role to wind power within Egypt’s renewables strategy for some time, despite the nation’s obvious advantages in terms of abundant sunlight and large tracts of undeveloped land. In 2014, however, brought a number of clear indicators that suggest that solar power remains very much front and centre in the government’s vision for the energy...
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