Libya’s Energy Future: Industry and Political risk outlook was launched at a Chatham House seminar in London on 20 July.
Based on African Energy’s unparalleled track record in following Libya’s energy story and careful, originally sourced reporting from Libya and global markets, this updated and enlarged special report analyses the major issues and the financial and political trends influencing development of Libya's energy industries. Read more
A detailed guide to electrification in Africa
A 400-page study published in Paris by Karthala, L’Electricité au Coeur des Défis Africains (available in French only) includes an overview of the continental electricity supply industry and examples of generation, transmission and distribution projects. A chapter on decentralised rural electrification is followed by another on the establishment of decentralised services companies.
The book draws on articles and materials from a number of experts and sources, including African Energy.
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AfricaHardball is an executive dialogue that brings together policy-makers, industry leaders and analysts to discuss the key political issues affecting the African energy industry in frank and open terms.
The last AfricaHardball roundtable was held on 29 June, prior to the start of EnergyNet Ltd’s annual Africa Energy Forum (AEF), in Basel. Read more
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Namibia draws firms into E&P, but questions remain over licensing and middlemen
After Namibia decided to abandon licensing rounds for direct negotiation, blocks were awarded to local players who sold them on to foreign companies. Local entrepreneurs such as Knowledge Katti have built up big businesses, but with the government threatening to investigate potential abuses of the system, the way licences are obtained is under new scrutiny. John Grobler in Windhoek and Eleanor Gillespie investigate Namibia’s licensing procedures and assess prospects for E&P in the next year more (opens new window)
As BP ponders Algerian assets, IOCs look for flexibility from the energy sector’s new top team
There are signs that BP may sell up in Algeria, where the In Salah and In Amenas fields give it a strong position in an important gas export industry. These are attractive assets, but the problems of operating with an increasingly inflexible administration in Algiers (as well as BP’s need for cash to fund the Gulf of Mexico clean-up) mean IOCs are re-evaluating their strategies. New minister Youcef Yousfi’s vision seems to be for an industry based on greater central control over Sonatrach, tenders and other procedures. more (opens new window)
Cost-reflective tariffs: obvious incentive and thorny political problem
The African electricity supply industry’s skewed economics help explain why so many projects fail. Projects cannot be funded without big subsidies, unless utilities get sufficient tariff income. But politicians and lobbies often block price rises fearing they will push fragile communities further into poverty, leaving utilities too weak to invest. Wider debate is needed, based on reliable data, to argue the case for more rational pricing that will ultimately drag Africans out of poverty, as in Asia and Latin America. more (opens new window)
More controversy over DR Congo’s Lake Albert exploration partners
The mysterious companies allocated blocks on the Congolese side of Lake Albert may have links to South African business magnate Tokyo Sexwale as well as to President Jacob Zuma, adding to questions surrounding the deal more (opens new window)
Libya/UK deals: it’s not all about BP
In the eye of the storm triggered by the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP is looking to divest more assets (see Upstream oil and gas), and remains under pressure from Congress and a range of lobby groups over its plans to start drilling in the Libyan offshore. more (opens new window)
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Libya's Energy Future – 2010/11 report
A detailed and frank analysis of Libya’s energy sector
Launched at a Chatham House round table seminar on Tuesday 20 July, Libya’s Energy Future 2010/11 builds on a special issue of African Energy that was published last year, one month before the 40th anniversary of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi’s ‘Great El Fatah Revolution’. Extensively rewritten and expanded by John Hamilton, supported by correspondents in Libya and third countries, and by Cross-border Information’s team of writers and researchers, it is intended to give an informed overview and analysis of the electricity, and upstream and downstream gas and oil industries in the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (State of the Masses).
It also examines Libya’s governance and financial record, and assesses the potential for international partners to do business with its institutions and interest groups. This includes analysis of the Libyan political system, from the influence of younger members of the Qadhafi family to the continued importance of tribal relationships. It also provides analysis of the emergence of a more functional and globalised financial system – a significant positive trend that has been reflected in a series of microeconomic developments which should benefit the Libyan population and investors alike.
Supporting the analytical report, this edition of Libya’s Energy Future also includes, in one volume, African Energy’s practical guide to the industry: The Libya Oil and Gas Handbook 2010/11. The handbook’s publication sprang from a desire to understand the sector by making available as many contacts as possible within the Jamahiriya and among its business community – giving readers the benefits of years of visits to companies and interviews by CbI staff. Each entry opens with a profile of the company and contains contact details. Profiles of the most important companies can be cross-referenced with more detailed information published in the Libya’s Energy Future update tables.
Libya’s Energy Future offers not only detailed insight into specific projects and players, but also a clear understanding and analysis of the dominant issues, making it essential reading for anyone serious about doing business in Libya
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A detailed guide to electrification in Africa
Electricité de France (EDF) executive Christine Heuraux has produced a 400-page study of the challenges facing electrification in Africa. Published in Paris by Karthala, L’Electricité au Coeur des Défis Africains (available in French only) includes an overview of the continental electricity supply industry and examples of generation, transmission and distribution projects. A chapter on decentralised rural electrification is followed by another on the establishment of decentralised services companies – a concept EDF has worked on since the 1990s.
In addition to Heuraux’s main text, an introduction by Lionel Zinzou and a postface by the Songaï research centre’s Godfrey Nzamujo, the book draws on articles and materials from a number of experts and sources, including African Energy.
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