Ethiopia to Draw on Japan’s Experience with Renewables

• Monday, 7th September 2015
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Ethiopia’s Water, Irrigation and Energy Minister Alemayehu Tegenu said that his country is its partnership with Japan in the area of climate change and renewable energy, reported AllAfrica. Alemayehu explained that ec...

Ethiopia Introduces Wind Power

• Tuesday, 30th June 2015
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

The wind blows hard over Adama, a range of rocky hills in Ethiopia’s highlands that provide the perfect location for one of the continent’s largest wind farms.  “In February, during the dry season, i...

China’s POLY-GCL to start gas in Ethiopia

• Thursday, 16th April 2015
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Ethiopia expects Chinese firm POLY-GCL Petroleum Group Holdings Ltd to begin drilling for natural gas in development blocks in the southeast by June or July, the mines minister said. Foreign firms have acquired licenc...

Ethiopia to Develop Gas Reserves, Begin Exports by 2017

• Monday, 30th March 2015
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Ethiopia expects to start producing and exporting natural gas from under-developed reserves in its southeast by 2017, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said on Friday. Several firms have already acquired licenses to...