articleGhana's Energy Minister, Joseph Kofi Adda, who signed the agreement, together with Sinohydro Chairman Fan Juxiang, said the project was crucial to augment the country's power production, which is currently in crisis.
Ghana's power shortfall has deepened since August last year, resulting in a national load shedding which has hindered the operation of bulk power users including the mines.
Authorities have blamed the current power crisis on low levels of water in the major eastern Akosombo Dam due to unfavorable rainfall pattern
Anadarko details find off Sierra Leone
Sep 16, 2009
Alan Petzet , OGJ Chief Editor-Exploration
HOUSTON, Sept. 16 -- The 45 ft of net hydrocarbon pay cut by an Anadarko Petroleum Corp.-operated deepwater exploratory well off remote Sierra Leone was only part of a “tremendous amount” of reservoir-quality rock the well penetrated, company officials said.
Anadarko and partners were still logging the well Sept. 16, had not yet seen analyses of hydrocarbons recovered to surface by a modular formation dynamics test (MDT) tool, and were still receiving 3D seismic shot off Liberia to the east. The discovery is a technical success and could be highly commercial, they said.
Anchoring a conference call were Anadarko’s Al Walker, chief operating officer; Bob Daniels, senior vice-president, worldwide exploration; and Frank Patterson, vice-president, exploration.
All information from the well “is very positive for the exploration effort in the Liberian and Ivorian basins,” including fan systems, petroleum system, thermal maturity, and migration, said Daniels. The well proved the fan systems get better coming off the craton.
In the Venus well Anadarko saw good reservoir quality in numerous sands and shows in numerous sands. Nine wells previously were drilled on the shelf off Sierra Leone, and Venus validated the geological parameters of the depositional model that are going to help the company and its partners set up the rest of the play, they said.
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Oil groups confirm big find
By Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent
Published: September 17 2009 03:00 | Last updated: September 17 2009 03:00
Anadarko, the US oil group, and partners Woodside of Australia, Repsol of Spain and Tullow Oil of the UK, yesterday confirmed that they had found a new offshore oil region from Sierra Leone to Ghana in which they expect to discover more huge oil fields in the next five years.
The announcement was made based on positive drilling results from the Venus well off the coast of Sierra Leone, 1,100km from Ghana's Jubilee field, Africa's largest deep-water field.
"The chance of there being at least one more Jubilee-sized field along the coast between Ghana and Sierra Leone has greatly increased," said Aidan Heavey, Tullow chief executive.
The Jubilee field, discovered in 2007, holds up to 2bn barrels of oil.
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The results of the drilling, one of the most closely watched in the industry, suggests a large field. But much more important is the area it opens up.
Bob Daniels, head of Anadarko exploration, said: "The Venus discovery confirms the existence of an active petroleum system in the basin and enhances the prospectivity of our vast West Africa acreage."
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Dana to buy stake in concession off Guinea
Oct 19, 2009
Uchenna Izundu
OGJ International Editor
LONDON, Oct. 19 -- Dana Petroleum PLC is to gain a 23% interest in the Hyperdynamics concession off Guinea under an exclusive letter of intent (LOI) signed with Hyperdynamics Corp., Sugar Land, Tex.
The partners hope a binding agreement will be signed by yearend for the acreage, which covers 80,000 sq km. Hyperdynamics hopes to bring another partner into the concession.
“Dana has the option to negotiate for an additional interest of up to a further 27% (to give Dana a total of 50% interest) if Hyperdynamics does not sign a letter of intent with such a company by Nov. 30,” said Dana.
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NOVEMBER 15, 2010, 5:56 A.M. ET
Anadarko Discovery Boosts Prospects Of New W Africa Oil Basin
By James Herron
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Anadarko Corp.'s (APC) second oil discovery offshore Sierra Leone further demonstrates that a new stretch of the West African coast has the potential to become a productive oil basin, the company and its partners said Monday.
"The Mercury well demonstrates that the stratigraphic trapping systems we've identified are working, and that the petroleum system is generating high-quality oil," said Anadarko's Senior Vice President for Worldwide Exploration Bob Daniels. "These results continue to build momentum in the basin and enhance our confidence."
"This is a large oil play with significant potential for future offshore exploration in West Africa," said a spokesman for Repsol YPF (REP), one of Anadarko's partners in the well.
Andarko and its partners in the Mercury well, Repsol and Tullow Oil PLC (TLW.LN), are following a trail of geological structures called stratigraphic traps offshore Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Tullow says there are numerous undrilled prospects in this region that could be of similar size to its 1.5 billion barrel Jubilee field offshore Ghana.
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UPI wrote: Published: Dec. 4, 2012 at 6:47 PM
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LONDON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A British firm says it plans to build a solar power plant in Africa that will provide electricity to more than 100,000 home and be the biggest on the continent.
Renewable energy investment company Blue Energy said construction of the Nzema project in Ghana is due to start within 12 months and will cost $400 million.
It will be the most ambitious of dozens of photovoltaic power plants being considered across Africa, an industry analyst said.
"It is the biggest single project that's going ahead at the moment," Ash Sharma at IMS Research told BBC News. "It is not the biggest in the world, but if it goes ahead it will be the biggest in Africa."
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A 20 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) project developed by the Chinese firm Beijing Xiaocheng Company (a subsidiary of Beijing Fuxing Xiao-Cheng Electronic) was recently connected to the grid in Ghana, according to recent reports.
The newly connected solar PV project represents the largest yet connected to the Ghanian grid, and also the largest PV installation in the African nation to date.
It’s worth noting here that the development costs of the project were fronted directly by the Chinese firm — all $30 million of the project costs were provided by Beijing Xiaocheng Company (BXC). The move thus represents another example of the increasingly close relationship between many Chinese firms and African nations. Notably, Ghana is currently in the midst of something of an “energy crisis” — further increasing the importance of the new project.
The new project is many times larger than the country’s previously largest solar PV project — a 2 MW project — and is located around 70 kilometers from the country’s capital, on a 100-acre project site.
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