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Sihle Qekeleshe, Web Editor December 9, 2020
Oil and gas exploration company Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas has announced the reissuance of four licenses with a new 10-year life cycle for exploration activities offshore Namibia. In addition, the company has attained four new petroleum licenses for its existing offshore blocks in the Walvis Basin.
The new licenses cover roughly 28,593 km
2 and hold more than 2.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent of prospective resources. Namibia’s National Petroleum Corporation has a 10% working interest in each license, while local Namibian businesses hold a five percent working interest in each of the blocks.
“Successfully renegotiating our four licenses offshore Namibia and being awarded over 28,500 km
Sihle Qekeleshe, Web Editor December 7, 2020
Angolan President, H.E. João Lourenço has authorized €547 million (434 billion kwanzas) for the construction of the Barra do Dande Terminal in the Bengo province, Angola.
According to the president, the infrastructure is expected to be operational in the first half of 2022 and will be used as an onshore storage unit for refined oil products. The terminal – with a storage capacity of 641,500 cubic meters in the first phase and doubling in storage capacity in the second phase, totaling one million and 700 thousand cubic meters of oil products – is also expected to meet the needs of national consumption and the creation of strategic reserves.
Sihle Qekeleshe, Web Editor December 11, 2020
A consortium led by French construction company, VINCI Construction, has signed a $470-million contract with the Gambia River Basin Development Organization to build the Sambangalou dam.
The Organization – in which The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal are member countries – will work with VINCI to construct a 91m high dam with a capacity of 128 MW, located in the southeast of the country and close to the Guinean border.
The dam aims to provide renewable energy, supply clean drinking water to local communities in the region and improve irrigation systems on farmland. Construction is expected to begin in the first half of 2021, and approximately 1,000 people will be employed by the project and trained locally.
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