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Karpowership in talks to provide floating

power plant electricity to Cameroon

CAMEROON REPRESENTATIVES of Karpowership, owned in Mozambique and Senegal too in 2021, turning
by Turkish conglomerate Karadeniz Energy to domestically produced natural gas.
Group, on January 25 met with Cameroonian In August, Harezi said the company was plan-
PM Joseph Dion Ngute to discuss a possible deal ning to provide electricity to Haiti.
to supply power in a cooperation with Cam- In July, it inked a five-year deal to provide
eroon’s main port Douala, the country’s state electricity to Sierra Leone’s state power utility.
broadcaster has reported. Since 2010, the company has completed
Karpowership director Zeynep Harezi con- 25 power ships with an installed capacity of
firmed to Bloomberg that the company was 4,100MW while additional ships with a capacity
aiming to install two floating power plant ships of 4,400MW are either under construction or are
to supply two Western African countries in 2021, in the pipeline.
but did not name the countries. In terms of electricity generation, the com-
Karpowership supplies 1,400MW to eight pany has previously met or is meeting 60% for
countries in the region and is targeting the addi- Gambia, 26% for Ghana, 100% for Guinea Bis-
tion of 1,000MW in 2021, according to Harezi. sau, 10% for Guinea, 25% for Lebanon, 10% for
The company is awaiting payments from Leb- Mozambique, 15% for Senegal, 80% for Sierra
anon, where it provides a quarter of the country’s Leone, 10% for Sudan, 10% for Cuba, 30% for
capacity with two floating power units aboard North Sulawesi, Indonesia, 55% for East Nusa
ships, Harezi also said. Teneggara, Indonesia, 80% for Ambon, Indone-
Karpowership has, meanwhile, converted sia, 10% for Medan, Indonesia, 16% for Zambia
a 470MW fuel oil ship to liquified natural gas and 30% for Southern Iraq.™
(LNG) in Ghana while it plans to switch to LNG

FUELS
TPDC to build five CNG filling

stations in Dar es Salaam

TANZANIA TANZANIA Petroleum Development Corp. Fish Market, the Muhimbili National Hospital,
(TPDC) has announced plans to build five new and they will be able to service 200 vehicles per
CNG filling stations in Dar es Salaam before the day, he said. Meanwhile, the third will be built
end of the current fiscal year. within the Galagaza-Kibaha industrial zone and
According to James Mataragio, TPDC’s man- will deliver fuel to the Kairuki pharmaceutical
aging director, the company intends to build two plant, he said. This third station may eventually
large hub stations and three smaller-sized satel- expand its service to other customers based on
lite stations. Some of these facilities will be open demand, he added.
to the public, but all of them will serve Dar Rapid TPDC is looking to promote the use of CNG
Transit (DART), a local public transportation as motor fuel and has invited private investors to
provider that operates buses along high-volume invest in gas-fuelled transportation, Mataragio
municipal routes, he said at the weekend. continued. It has already authorised six com-
TPDC has already selected the sites where panies to provide this service, he said, without
the stations will be built and has completed a naming any of the investors involved.
feasibility study of its plan, Mataragio added. In the meantime, expanding CNG consump-
The company expects to wrap up talks on land tion is expected to have a positive impact in Dar
acquisition within the next three weeks. es Salaam. Ronald Lwakatare, the CEO of DART,
He went on to say that the two large sta- said that the use of CNG-fuelled buses would
tions would be built at the Dungo area, which is allow his company to reduce fuel costs by 45%
already owned by DART, and on Sam Nujoma because of the switch to CNG. These savings will
Road, near the Mawasialiano building, the head- allow DART to cut ticket prices, and lower ticket
quarters of the Tanzania Communications Reg- prices may, in turn, raise the number of passen-
ulatory Authority (TCRA). These hubs will be gers using DART buses from 200,000 per day to
able to provide fuel for 300 buses each, he said. 500,000 per day, he stated.™
Two small stations will be built at the Ferry

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