Zimbabwe’s Coal Firm Considers Layoffs

• Sunday, 26th June 2016
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Zimbabwe’s Hwange Colliery Ltd, a partly state-owned Zimbabwean coal miner, plans to cut 1,000 jobs this year from a total workforce of 3,000, in efforts to make the coal miner more viable, Reuters reported. Dep...

Zimbabwe Eyes Power Surplus by 2018

• Monday, 13th June 2016
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Zimbabwe’s government is targeting power surplus by 2018 as a result of several energy projects that are currently being implemented in different parts of the country, All Africa reported, Director for Policy an...

Low Water Levels Hit Zimbabwean Power Generation

• Sunday, 22nd November 2015
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

More blackouts and low industrial production are imminent in Zimbabwe as the output from a major source of hydro electric power drops to critical levels, AllAfrica reported. Lake Kariba is a huge man-made reservoir wh...

Zimbabwe Studies Emergency Power Imports

• Monday, 26th October 2015
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

The Zimbabwean government is looking to import power from its neighbouring countries within the South African Development Community (SADC) region in 2016 to supplement local production, ESI Africa reported. Energy and...

Sunbird Bioenergy to Build Ethanol Plant in Zimbabwe

• Tuesday, 20th October 2015
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Sunbird Bioenergy Limited has entered into an agreement with the Zimbabwean government and China New Energy to develop a bioenergy project which will produce 120m liters per year of fuel grade ethanol from cassava and...

Zimbabwe: Gazprom Interested in Methane Gas from Lupane

• Monday, 19th October 2015
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Russian Gazprom has expressed an interest in the extraction of coal bed methane gas in Lupane, Zimbabwe, Mines and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa said yesterday, Chronicle reported. Minister Chidhakwa sa...