Ethiopia | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 2
Chinese Company Finishes Drilling Gas Appraisal Wells in Ethiopia
Chinese firm POLY-GCL Petroleum Group Holdings has finished drilling two appraisal wells in Ethiopia’s southeast and will soon know the size of gas deposits there, a senior Ethiopian official said, as Reuters re...
Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan Sign Preliminary Agreement over Renaissance Dam
Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan announced on December 29th that they had reached a consensus over the next steps of Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam project, reports Ahram Online. The Khartoum Document comes after 11 rounds of t...
Electricity Ministry Trains African Engineers Amid Renaissance Negotiations
The Egyptian Ministry of Electricity has announced the finalization of a one-month training program for engineers from around the African continent, All Africa reports. The ministry announced that 31 engineers had rec...
Japan to Help Ethiopia Generate Geothermal Electricity
Japan is ready to support geothermal development activities in Ethiopia, according to Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Speaking at a relevant workshop Tuesday, JICA Representative Mayumi Hayashi said the...
Maersk Oil Acquires Interests in Onshore Discoveries in Kenya and Ethiopia
The Danish oil and gas company Maersk Oil has agreed to acquire half of Africa Oil Corporation’s shares in three onshore exploration licences in Kenya and a further two in Ethiopia. According to the company, the licen...
Russian Company Begins Ethiopia Oil Exploration
Russian oil and gas company GPB Global Resources is embarking on an oil exploration project in the Afar Regional State of Ethiopia. The country’s Ministry of Mines, Petroleum and Natural Gas, and GPB Global Resources ... Ethiopia Calls on French Expertise to Export Renewable Energy
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalgen called on French Senators to support Ethiopia in Renewable Energy Development, reported Star Africa. This came out during his talks with a four-man delegation visi...
Ethiopia to Export Natural Gas Within 3 to 5 Years
Ethiopia will export natural gas within the next three to five years, the government’s mines minister Tolossa Shagi told the Associated Press according to Daily Mail. Chinese upstream operator China Poly Technol...
