Petronas is considering selling its stake in a joint project in Chad with Exxon Mobil Corp. Their combined holdings could be worth more than US$1 billion
State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) has completed the 49% equity acquisition of Oman Electricity Transmission Company OETC together with seller Nama Group.
Standard Bank Group Ltd.’s South African unit sold a $200 million green bond to the International Finance Corp. in the largest sale of its kind from the continent yet
Spanish Minister for Science, Innovation, and Universities Pedro Duque has praised the Emirati experience in the field of science, innovation and clean and renewable energy, citing the example of Masdar City, which is the first city in the world to rely on clean and renewable energy and the first sustainable residential community
The first PPP project to generate renewable energy from shared resources in Africa, the Ruzizi III hydropower project will generate reliable electricity from the Ruzizi river to be shared equally between the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Rwanda
As South Sudan emerges from the wreckage of civil war, its leaders are beginning to build the nation’s electric sector from the ground up. The country is striving for a system that runs primarily on renewable energy
A McKinsey report, entitled “Artificial Intelligence: Transforming the Future of Energy and Sustainability,” highlights the potential for AI applications in the Middle East energy sector amid a flurry of investments in renewables such as solar and wind..
Senior African government representatives and leaders from the energy sector, financial institutions and civil society gathered in Abidjan to chart a course for the sustainable development of the continent’s hydropower resources
Oman, the Middle East's biggest oil producer outside of OPEC, is deliberating several options to restructure its state-backed oil and gas companies to provide a much-needed cash injection to the country's balance sheet, while continuing plans to increase production
The UAE issued an operating license for the first reactor at the Arab world's first nuclear power plant, paving the way for it to start production later this year. When completed, the Barakah power plant will have four reactors with a total capacity of 5,600 megawatts
The Persian Gulf is, without doubt, the most prominent oil and gas production area in the world. After decades of intensive exploration and production, the region still amaze persistent explorers.
Saudi Arabia has been ramping up exploration for gas to help feed an expanding industrial base and to replace crude with gas in power generation. The kingdom plans to produce 70% of its power from gas and 30% from renewable energy, the minister has previously stated.
This is the second time in six years that Saudi Arabia has embarked on a pump-at-will oil production policy that has hammered prices. Whether it’s aimed at Russia or the U.S. shale sector, producers everywhere.
Some of the world’s biggest buyout firms including Blackstone Group and KKR have pumped billions of dollars into oil and gas assets in recent years, betting that the companies would benefit as oil prices rebounded from a slump that ended in 2016.
The lack of rig activity could damage the OPEC member’s capacity to produce oil from older fields, which require continuous pumping to maintain pressure and output. That would make it difficult for Iran to raise production back to pre-sanction levels if tensions ease with the United States
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In southern Morocco, on the edge of the Saharan desert, sits one of the world’s most remarkable engineering projects: the Noor Power Plant. This is the second largest solar plant in the world with a total capacity of 510MW and an area that dwarfs the nearby city of Ouarzazate.
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