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Once-in-a-1,000-year snow melt floods hydropower plant on Russia’s far northern coast

9 June 2020

There were more melting permafrost problems for Russia’s energy infrastructure after the TGK1 power station near Murmansk reported that two of its hydropower units were flooded with “abnormal water inflow” due to melting snow.

Mozambique says COVID-19 outbreak under control at Total work camp

9 June 2020

Mozambican authorities have given Total a green light to resume the construction of a gas liquefaction plant in Cabo Delgado Province.

Libya’s NOC says El-Feel is back online

9 June 2020

Within the last week, Libya’s National Oil Corp. (NOC) has succeeded in resuming development operations at El-Feel, one of the country’s largest oilfields, and has also suffered setbacks at Sharara, another major site.

Total accepts Tanzania’s request to speed up work on EACOP

8 June 2020

The government of Tanzania has informed France’s Total that it wants to fast-track the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).

Tullow wraps up early oil programme in Kenya

8 June 2020

Tullow Oil (UK/Ireland) and its partners have brought their early oil production scheme (EOPS) in Kenya to a halt without exporting all of the crude they have extracted from fields in the Lokichar Basin.