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ECOWAS: African Development Fund approves $2mn technical grant to boost electricity reforms

Kenya and Eswatini to champion Commonwealth geothermal energy action

Five countries seek delay for EU petrol and diesel ban

Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania are seeking to push back by five years EU proposals to slap a ban on selling new petrol and diesel cars from 2035.

Staatsolie chief keen on upcoming bidding rounds

Annand Jagesar, the managing director of Suriname’s NOC Staatsolie, says his company is looking forward to offering additional shallow- and deepwater blocks to foreign investors over the next year.

Nigeria raises $482mn from marginal oilfield licences

Arctic in meltdown

The Arctic is now heating up seven times faster than the rest of the world, with the region’s ice in danger of melting completely by 2050.

Majority of Scirocco Energy shareholders back sale of Tanzanian stake to Wentworth Resources

A majority of AIM-listed Scirocco Energy's shareholders have voted to approve the planned sale of a 25% stake in Ruvuma, a natural gas-bearing block in southern Tanzania, to UK-based Wentworth Resources.

European gas prices climb amid further supply disruptions, heat wave

South Africa electricity utility Eskom offers striking workers 7% salary increase amid Stage 6 load-shedding

Fedun leaves Lukoil following Alekperov's lead

UK looks at allowing lower-calorific gas into system

Germany considers expropriating Nord Stream 2

GLNG: Germany considers expropriating Nord Stream 2

Algerian court sentences former energy minister to 20 years in jail

Moody’s lead analyst for South Africa has high hopes for economy

Sasol South Africa completes sale of 30% stake in ROMPCO gas pipeline for up to $317mn

EXPLAINER: how a price cap on Russian oil might work

Europe is scrambling to find alternatives to Russian crude oil, natural gas and coal. But the fact remains that despite recent cuts in the amount that the EU buys from Russia, Moscow’s revenues from hydrocarbon exports still surged 40% this year.

World Bank’s MIGA issues 19-year guarantee of $98.3mn to Virtuo Finance for solar park investment in Egypt

Nazarbayev’s son-in-law said to hand over 49% stake in Petrosun to state

Czech energy company CEZ switches away from Russian nuclear fuel

CEZ signs contract with US nuclear power technology company Westinghouse and French Framatome.

Kazakhstan to offer shares in KMG to local investors

Nostrum Gas signs contract with Ural Oil & Gas on construction works

Romania reports new gas from Black Sea, expects 90% gas self-sufficiency

Energy minister says Black Sea Oil and Gas’ Midia development will boost self-sufficiency, as Europe tries to end dependence on Russian gas.

Swiss group Axpo to build two wind farms in Romania

TurkStream returns to operation