Oil Pipeline Supply Chain Breached by Major Theft in Africa, India ...Reports of the organized pillaging of crude oil in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, which is Africa's largest oil producer, reveal an "industry" that is reported to skim off 7.5% of daily oil production...
Zambia's Refinery Shuts Down as Crude Oil Feed Runs Dry ...Zambia's only oil refinery has been forced to halt to operations after it ran out of crude oil feed. This has happened several times at the Indeni plant over the past decade...
Voith Taps into Africa's 400-Gigawatt Hydropower Potential ...Angola's potential for hydropower is estimated at about 18 gigawatts, with only 4% of that total having been developed to date. The Cambambe 11 hydropower project on the River Kwanza will add more than 700 megawatts....
Algeria to Double Refining Capacity to 60 Million Tons by 2018 ...Algeria has been forming plans for the past two years to more fully develop its energy resources and production capacity. Toward the end of 2012, Sonatrach announced that it would invest...
China Loans $1 Billion to Ethiopian Power Line Construction ...China has extended a $1 billion loan to Ethiopia for the construction of power transmission line to link the capital, Addis Ababa, with Africa's largest hydropower dam under construction...
Conflict on Copper Exports in DRC Yields Unexpected Outcomes ...In the copper-rich Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the provincial governor, Moise Katumbi, has rejected the central government in Kinshasa's diktat that...
