Africa

Tullow Oil has encountered oil and gas while drilling at its Wawa-1 well offshore Ghana.

The find was made at the exploration well in the Deepwater Tano licence where oil and gas condensate was intersected in a Turonian turbidite channel system.

The well was drilled 10 kilometres north of the Enyenra-3A well, testing a previously undrilled portion of the licence, Tullow said. The Atwood Hunter semi-submersible rig drilled the Wawa-1 well to a final depth of 3,322 metres in water depths of 587 metres.

A competent and reliable logistics partner is worth its weight in gold to a developing economy and to global clients seeking to invest there. Threeways Shipping has shown it can do the job and is poised to take its place as a global player.

KPMC is a niche BEE project management and engineering company, specialising in combining the practicalities of mining, the challenges of logistics and the volumes of bulk materials handling with innovative solutions and experience.

Howden Africa, part of Howden Global, is showing impressive growth in meeting the needs of the burgeoning resources industry in Africa, providing ventilation and cooling systems, dust scrubbers and flue gas conditioning systems to the continent’s mines.

Build, own, operate, transfer (BOOT) is an attractive model for delivering infrastructure projects efficiently; and Ghana Water Company Limited is becoming wedded to the idea as it strives to expand its network.

The World Bank has approved loans totalling $684 million for the Eastern Electricity Highway Project, which will connect Ethiopia’s electrical grid with Kenya’s.

The World Bank financing to both governments—US$243 million for Ethiopia and US$441 million for Kenya—will come from the International Development Association, the Bank’s fund for the world’s poorest countries.

Convincing mines to spend more money up-front on the expectation of lower life-of-mine costs is what one South African supplier is working hard to do.

South Africa-based Best Shoes has been focusing its efforts on quality, customer service and strategy in order to continue growing its business.

One South African mining company is producing a refractory material on whose properties the world’s iron and steel producers depend.

In the production of iron and steel, refractory materials fall into the category of consumable commodity—hovering somewhere in the background until all the glamorous hard work has been done and the melted, smelted, refined liquid metal needs moving in a refractory lined vessel from one part of the plant to another.

PetroSA’s Project Ikhwezi initiative has been granted regulatory approval by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa).

The project, which is PetroSA’s flagship initiative to secure additional reserves to sustain its Mossel Bay gas-to-liquids (GTL) refinery, will produce gas feedstock from the offshore F-O development fields.

PetroSA said the approval is a major milestone, allowing the National Oil Company to produce natural gas from the F-O development fields when the project is commissioned.