Petroleum Review - April 2011
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Perspective – Winning the race for new fuel technologies – China or the US?
AFRICA – NAMIBIA
Think ahead and pass the salt
Some 20 years after its first licensing round, Namibia finally has become the oil explorers' hot spot, writes Maria Kielmas.
AFRICA – SOMALIA
Changing fortunes?
Classified as a failed state, Somalia is one of the world's poorest countries. However, the politically fractured country may contain significant oil and gas reserves and is being touted as a potentially rich producer, reports Wachira Kigotho in Nairobi. Furthermore, Somalia is increasingly regarded as economically strategically-located – a view fuelled by recent interest by Chinese and western nations' oil and gas investment companies.
AFRICA – ZAMBIA
Indeni continues to face problems
The Indeni oil refinery in Zambia has been an on and off affair from the time an Italian company built it for the government in 1975. Frequent shutdowns due to insufficient feedstock supply, power outages, lack of maintenance, accidents and strikes – in particular over the past two decades – have adversely affected operations and production at the plant located at Ndola, in the southern African Copperbelt. Alfred Sayila reports.
AFRICA – SENEGAL
Power to the people
Senegal has no indigenous energy sources, except for a small amount of natural gas production in Gadiaga, located south of the capital city Dakar. As a result, the country has to rely on oil imports to meet its ever increasing demand for electricity – which averages between 9% and 10% growth year on year. Demand is forecast to continue to increase, spurred on by Senegal's rising GDP and government plans to expand the electricity network nationwide. Gordon Feller reports.
Personal safety under threat
The worldwide threat to personal security – onshore and offshore – is at an unprecedented level, writes Nigel Bance. The current pan-Arab revolutions may even worsen the situation.
ELECTRICITY – UK
Striking the right balance
The first of this year's series of Energy Briefings published by the Energy Institute in partnership with Deloitte takes a closer look at the direction of UK electricity market reform.
HAZARDOUS CARGO – REGULATORY REVIEW
Managing modern hazards
Designating a material as 'hazardous' means that care has to be taken when handling and moving it. More and more materials are falling under that designation, writes Peter Mackay, Managing Editor, Hazardous Cargo Bulletin.
ELECTRICITY – UK
Market reform and carbon price support – the EI responds
In mid-December 2010, the UK coalition government outlined four pillars of reform for the electricity market to ensure the required investment in low carbon, secure energy supplies. Gareth Parkes, Energy Institute (EI) Knowledge Manager, summarises the EI responses to the consultations.
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