Photo courtesy of wikimapia. Angola LNG says its plant has a capacity of 5.2 million tons (6.8 Bcm) per year; 360,000 cm of full-containment LNG storage, LPG and condensate storage; and a loading jetty sized to accommodate ships up to 210 cm. Related Links: Ernst & Young Report on Opportunties for Natural Gas Development in Africa IGU World NLG Report 2013 Africa hopes to ramp up its liquefied natural gas (LNG) capacity by an additional 88.7 metric tonnes per year by 2020, despite the withdrawal of leading U.S. energy company Chevron Corp. from one of the largest liquefaction plants on
Photos courtesy of SASOL Sasol existing chemicals plant in Lake Charles, La.; the South African firm's planned new facilities would be adjacent. Sasols flagship gas-to-liquids facility in Qatar, which it owns in joint venture with Qatar Petroleum, cost much more than its original $5-billion construction estimate, one Wall Street analyst says. Related Links: Sasol Advances U.S. Ethane and Derivatives Project Western Canada Eyes Gas-to-Liquid Production Facility South Africa integrated energy and chemical company Sasol is pushing ahead with its planned gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility and ethane cracker projects in Louisiana, with the latter's final investment decision expected by the first quarter
Photo Courtesy of GE Algeria has one of GE's largest installed equipment bases, including more than 400 gas turbines, 340 compressors and 35,000 kilometers of inspected pipelines. Related Links: East Africa Power Transmission Project Ready for Takeoff After Funding Approval Algeria’s national electricity-and-gas company, Sonelgaz, has, through one of its subsidiaries, signed three power-generation equipment-supply contracts with Fairfield, Conn.-based GE worth $2.7 billion as the country prepares to meet increasing domestic energy consumption, now estimated at 30.9 billion cu meters.The three contracts, awarded on Sept. 23 by Sonelgaz’s Société Algérienne de Production de l’Electricité (SPE Spa), are for the supply
Related Links: Obama Announces $7-Billion 'Power Africa' Plan Efforts To Light Up Africa Gain Momentum Ajoint venture of Spain's Grupo Clavijo and Germany's Schletter GmbH has won a contract to install photovoltaic racks for South Africa's 96-MW Jasper Solar Energy Project, which counts Google as one of its investors.It is Google's first renewable-energy play on the continent, where PV energy projects are emerging fast. A consortium, led by California-based SolarReserve, is developing the site at which Yingli solar panels are to be installed under an engineering, procurement and con-struction contract, led by Spain-based Iberdrola Engineering and South Africa's Group Five.
Built in 1972, the Inga I dam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo does not operate at capacity due to lack of maintenance. At this dam site and at a newer one, replacement of aging turbines has been on hold for a decade due to a lack of financing. Related Links: The World Bank-Africa region The Democratic Republic of the Congo has launched a new initiative to fast-track construction of the delayed $12-billion Inga III hydropower project on Africa's Congo River despite skepticism that the project may never be implemented.The World Bank, however, appears more supportive of a new
Somalian militants attacked the Turkish embassy in Mogadishu in late July, but the country remains committed to transportation projects there. Turkish development firms are building a new $10-million airport terminal in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. Construction by three Turkish firms of a new $10-million airport terminal in Somalia and a 23-kilometer road connecting it to the capital city, Mogadishu, will continue to completion despite a deadly late-July embassy attack by a militant group linked to al-Qaeda.The July 27 attack on the Turkish embassy building in Mogadishu, which left one Turkish guard dead and three others seriously injured, has injected some uncertainty
Related Links: Big Africa Projects Face Legal Battles, Community Protests Italian construction firm Salini SpA received a major blow to its Africa expansion plans when, late in June, Namibia's high court overturned its $280-million construction contract for the Neckartal Dam.The court ordered the contract to be rebid after a successful challenge by one losing bidder, CSC Neckartal Dam, a consortium made up of South African, Italian and Lebanese firms.The rebid will be the project's third attempt at contract award since 2011, says a published report in Africa.Namibia is constructing the dam on the Fish River, 40 kilometers west of Keetmanshoop,
Image courtesy South African Government Services The investigation revealed more than 300 incidents of collusion, including on World Cup soccer-stadium projects, such as the $460-million Green Point venue in Cape Town. Related Links: South Africa Toasts Itself With 2010 World Cup South Africa will fine 15 construction firms a total of more than $151 million as part of agreements reached last month that settle bid-rigging claims related to at least $4.8 billion worth of projects.The Competition Commission of South Africa said the companies "colluded to create the illusion of competition by submitting sham tenders ('cover pricing') to enable a fellow
Courtesy of The Sun Namibia's Neckartal dam (above) has been delayed by contract-award protests among competitors, while the Nile River dam in Ethiopia (below) is at the center of a water-allocation dispute with Egypt. Photo courtesy of The Independent Related Links: Ugandan Government Removes Chinese Firm From Large Hydro Project Several major African infrastructure projects, including some multibillion-dollar hydroelectric jobs, now are finding their progress beset by contracting disputes among global participants, protests from local communities and even cross-border sovereignty spats.Egypt-Ethiopia Megaproject BrouhahaEthiopia’s construction of the $4.7-billion Great Renaissance Dam on the Nile River has jolted its diplomatic relations with
Africa's tallest tower planned to rise 99 stories in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by 2017. Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa, may boast Africa’s tallest building by 2017. While a 58-story building had been announced, plans unveiled by a private Chinese developer now call for a 99-story office-hotel tower. Guangdong Chuanhui Group has not revealed the building's estimated cost or other details, including financial arrangements or the names of the architect and engineer.The site for the Chuanhui International Tower is at the new Addis Ababa Exhibition Centre. The developer says it has acquired the 41,000 sq meter site and the building plans