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According to the Global Energy Monitor, there gas pipelines in Africa, most which are located
are currently 16 operating gas fields in Africa in South Africa, Mozambique and Nigeria.
(most of which are in Egypt and Nigeria), one There are also significant plans to build LNG
in development (in Egypt) and 19 discovered export capacities (for a total of 60mn tonnes per
(most of which are in Tanzania and Mozam- year) and LNG import capacities (around 20mn
bique). Additionally, there are seven fields with tpy), as depicted in Figure 4.
both oil and gas extraction that have been dis- In the electricity generation sector, there are
covered or are in development in Africa, on top 55 GW of new gas power plants in development
of the 150 already in operation (Global Energy (proposed or under construction) in Africa,
Monitor, 2022b). most of which are in South Africa (13 GW) and
There are also about 22,000 km of planned Nigeria (15 GW). ™

PROJECTS & COMPANIES
Savannah Energy’s Accugas subsidiary in

gas supply agreement with Nigeria’s TAPL

NIGERIA UK-BASED Savannah Energy revealed on June deliveries.
6 that Accugas, its 80% indirectly owned subsid- Andrew Knott, Savannah Energy’s CEO,
iary, had signed a short-term deal with TransA- noted that the GSA with TAPL would serve
fam Power Ltd (TAPL) on the delivery of natural to expand Accugas’ portfolio of clients. “I am
gas for use at the latter company’s thermal power delighted to add TAPL as a new customer of
plants (TPPs) in Nigeria’s Rivers State. Accugas,” he commented. “This represents
In a statement, Savannah said that Accugas the second new GSA we have signed this year,
had signed a gas sales agreement (GSA) with bringing our total number of gas customers to
TAPL that provided for the delivery of 35mn seven, as we deliver on our objective to be the
cubic feet (991,000 cubic metres) per day of gas gas supplier of choice to the power sector in
on an interruptible basis. The shipments will Nigeria.”
continue for an initial period of three months, Meanwhile, Vincent Ozoude, managing
with the option to extend for a mutually agreed director and CEO of TAPL, said he expected
interval, it said. the deal to benefit his company. “We are excited
The statement did not reveal the value of the to start this journey with Accugas Ltd, which
GSA or say when shipments were expected to supports our core purpose of improving lives
begin. But it did note that TAPL’s two TPPs – the and transforming Nigeria,” he stated. “This
Afam Power and Afam Three Fast Power sta- relationship with Accugas should go a long way
tions, both located in Okoloma – were already in boosting our plant capacity recovery pro-
connected to Accugas’ network. The facilities gramme and improved power generation to the
have links to a Nigerian Gas Co. (NGC) pipe- country.”
line from Ikot Abasi, so the Savannah subsidiary Together, the Afam Power and Afam Three
will not have to establish a new tie-in or make Fast Power TPPs have an installed generating
any additional capital expenditures to enable capacity of 966 MW. ™

VAALCO announces successful drilling of

South Tchibala 1HB-ST well at Etame Marin

GABON VAALCO Energy (US) reported on June 2 that it had encountered “significant columns of multi-
had successfully drilled the South Tchibala 1HB- ple hydrocarbon-bearing sands” in the Dentale
ST well from the Avouma platform at the Etame horizon. It encountered 18 metres of net pay in
Marin block offshore Gabon. the Dentale D1 sands interval and 15 metres of
In a statement, the company said the well net pay in the cased Dentale D9 interval.

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