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The Invest in African Energy (IAE) forum in Paris has unveiled its 2025 theme: Pioneering Africa’s Energy Boom: Strategic Investment for Maximum Returns. This year’s event focuses on drawing in new technical and financial partners to harness the vast potential of Africa’s energy sector – driving growth and returns on investment.
Nigeria’s fuel shortage appears to have worsened, yesterday, as filling stations ran out of stocks, thus shutting their gates against motorists and other users of the product.
The long running legal dispute that Eni Ghana Exploration and Production and Vitol Upstream Ghana had initiated against the Ghana government was decided early this week, and everyone is telling their angle of the story.
The Minority in Parliament has cautioned the Akufo-Addo administration to exercise prudence and avoid making rash decisions in the future, in light of the court’s ruling on the $915 million lawsuit brought by Eni Ghana and Vitol Upstream against Ghana.
Eni Ghana Exploration and Production and Vitol Upstream Ghana have received a positive decision from an international arbitral tribunal regarding their unitisation dispute with the Republic of Ghana, ruling in favour of their long-standing opposition to the Ministry of Energy’s unitisation directives.
The signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) last week between Russian state gas giant Gazprom and the Iranian National Gas Company (NIGC) to begin direct transfers of gas from Russia to Iran “will act as a revolution in the energy and industry scene of the region”, according to Iran’s Petroleum Minister, Javad Owji. Indeed, this MoU and the others that preceded it can be seen as a major stepping stone to enabling the two countries to implement their long-held plan to be the core participants in a global cartel for gas suppliers in the same mold as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for oil suppliers.
Shell Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. (Shell), a subsidiary of Shell plc, has taken Final Investment Decision (FID) on the Manatee project, an undeveloped natural gas field in the East Coast Marine Area (ECMA) in Trinidad and Tobago.
Please join the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program for a conversation between Fereidun Fesharaki, founder and chairman of FGE, and Ben Cahill, senior fellow in the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program.
The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN have called on President Bola Tinubu to initiate an investigation into allegations that International Oil Companies are plotting to undermine the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals.