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EGYPT hydrogen facility, as announced on November MOZAMBIQUE
15 at Africa Energy Week.
Alexandria Petroleum Renewables, who spoke at Africa Energy Week, Eni’s offshore workers
Paulo Guedes, Songangol’s Director of
Maintenance closes said that key stakeholders, location, costs and accused of evading tax
market opportunities had yet to be identified,
$24.8mn worth of facility The Energy Year reported earlier. at Coral South LNG project
Sonangol has developed a portfolio of solar
maintenance contracts energy developments, including projects with A Mozambique anti-corruption watchdog
NGO has accused Italian oil and gas major Eni
Eni and TotalEnergies, with the aim of produc-
Largely state-owned Alexandria Petro- ing 385 MW of solar power by 2027. of evading taxes and local participation obliga-
leum Maintenance Company (Petromaint) bna/IntelliNews, November 23 2021 tions through its use of foreign contractors at the
announced the signing of two petroleum facil- Coral Sul floating LNG (FLNG) project.
ities maintenance contracts worth EGP390mn Centro de Integridade Publica (CIP)
($24.8mn). A one-year technical service con- ZIMBABWE describes as a “pure case of tax evasion” a con-
tract worth EGP300mn was inked with Alexan- tract between Eni and the Italy-based firm
dria Petroleum Maintenance Company covering Zambezi Gas shelves Progeco NeXT Mozambique to provide project
maintenance of existing facilities and new pro- management services shortly before gas produc-
jects in mechanical, civil, electrical works, auto- Matabeleland North gas tion started in the Rovuma basin.
matic control and information technology. Progeco NeXT has hired the workforce
A separate EGP90mn contract was signed project, moves ahead on requested by Eni, but has not registered anyone
with El Wastani Petroleum involving the devel- in Mozambique and is providing the service by
opment and modernisation of firefighting, alarm 750-MW power station basing the contracts in Dubai, the NGO said in a
and gas detection systems at the company’s facil- November 8 analysis.
ities to match international safety standards. Zimbabwean company Zambezi Gas and Coal Contractors come from the UK, the US,
Petromaint is a provider of services and Mine has shelved plans to establish a gas produc- Egypt, France and Qatar. They work offshore in
solutions to upstream and downstream oil & tion project in the country’s Matabeleland North the Rovuma Basin for 28 days and then return to
gas facilities; petrochemicals, fertilisers and region, citing prohibitive costs associated with their home states for 28 days.
cement industry; LNG, LPG, power generation the venture, The Chronicle reported on Monday, “The contracts in Dubai vary from $12,000
& industrial plants in support of its clients’ goal November 22. to $15,000 a month, and all of them escape
to achieve business objectives and plans. The Matabeleland North mine produces taxation on personal income, one of the main
bna/Intellinews, November 22 2021 150,000 tonnes of coal per month and is in good sources of tax revenue for the State, which cur-
standing to produce thermal electricity, but the rently averages 20% of the total contribution of
company’s initial aim was to extract gas. the mega-projects,” CIP alleges.
ANGOL A Operations director Menard Makota told The bna/IntelliNews, November 15 2021
Chronicle said the first phase of a planned 750-
Germany to open Angola MW power station should be up within three SUDAN
years, while gas mining will be resumed later.
energy office with initial ing as deep as 500 metres and also it requires a Sudan raises petrol
“Gas mining is very expensive. We are drill-
focus on hydrogen lot of technology, which currently is still starting
in Zimbabwe,” Makota was quoted as saying.
Germany will open an energy office dedicated to “So, us being an indigenous company we have and diesel prices amid
hydrogen in Angola, as part of planned bilateral shelved that a bit and we are going to do that in prolonged political crisis
cooperation in the energy sector that will later the later years.”
include renewables such solar and wind, Ver As for the power station, Makota said that Petrol prices in Sudan have jumped by SDG42
Angola reported on Monday, November 22. its first 150 MW should be connected to the per litre to SDG362 ($0.83) per litre, while die-
German ambassador Stefan Traumann, national grid in 2024. sel prices have increased by the same amount
whose previous diplomatic postings include “We have had a [setback] due to recent to reach SDG 347 per litre, according to news
a stint as general consul in Nigeria, made the announcement by China that they are no longer reports.
announcement after delivering his credentials to funding thermal power stations, and so, we are Sudan said earlier it would phase out subsi-
Angolan President Joao Lourenco late last week. trying to change that technology to first change dies on fuel and follow global prices to address
“[We] plan to open a hydrogen office here in the coal into gas then from there we do energy,” part of its widening state budget gap. The
Angola to cooperate in this area with the govern- Makota is quoted as saying. country has been implementing aggressive
ment. I am very optimistic that we will be able to “We have already engaged the funder who is IMF-monitored reforms in the hopes of turning
do many things in this area,” he said. working on the modalities to start the 150 MW its economy around and attracting debt relief
Angola’s state-run oil and gas operator then afterwards we are going to do the second and renewed financing. However, it is now facing
Sonangol has signed an MoU with Germany’s 600 MW to make it 750 MW.” a political crisis that is impacting its economy.
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