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  • Published on Dec 14, 2019

    Zimbabwe’s power imports not yet affected by Eskom crisis – Minister

    ZIMBABWE’s power supply situation has not yet been affected by an ongoing electricity crisis that has hit South Africa’s power generator, Eskom, a key supplier of the critical resource to the troubled country. The crisis in the neighbouring country has …

    Source: Zimbabwe Mail
  • Published on 03:54 GMT

    Debt fears aside, China’s tech will close Africa’s energy gap

    By PETER KAGWANJA More by this Author In the 21st century, the trouble with Africa is simply and squarely the failure of its leadership to invest in energy. The result is a frightfully widening energy gap, responsible for poverty, joblessness and …

    Source: Nation
  • Published on Dec 14, 2019

    South Africa's rand hands back early gains to end flat

    At 1530 GMT, the rand was 0.07% firmer at 14.4790 per dollar, hardly budged from the morning’s open as investors awaited details of a cabinet decision on how to deal with a crisis at power utility Eskom. South Africa’s government on Friday asked industry …

    Source: AngolaPress
  • Published on Dec 14, 2019

    South Africa asks industry for options to end power crisis

    President Cyril Ramaphosa called the meeting after struggling state utility Eskom implemented the most extensive power cuts in more than a decade earlier this week, disrupting supply to businesses and households. Eskom, which cut power for a ninth straight …

    Source: AngolaPress
  • Published on Dec 14, 2019

    Energy crisis sinking Zim economy - The Zimbabwe Independent

    Victor Bhoroma THE 2019 survey report by the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) on the impact of energy challenges on business paints a grim picture of the state of production in the economy. Unrelenting power cuts and fuel shortages have …

    Source: Zimbabwe News
  • Published on Dec 14, 2019

    A dark Christmas

    William Saunderson-Meyer says the reality of state dysfunction has cast a pall over seasonal cheer JAUNDICED EYE The end of the school term came early this year, with the seaside-bound traffic already snaking down to the coast in the first week of December …

    Source: Politics Web
  • Published on Dec 14, 2019

    The Eskom wreckage

    Andrew Donaldson on the Times of London's struggle to grasp the nature and magnitude of the crisis in SA A FAMOUS GROUSE ON Tuesday The Times of London reported on the load shedding. South Africa, it said, is in the grip of “an unprecedented power …

    Source: Politics Web
  • Published on Dec 13, 2019

    Here are four ways South Africa can get more power generation capacity

    JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Plagued by power cuts and with its infrastructure in desperate need of revamping, South Africa’s struggling state power utility Eskom says the country desperately needs an additional 5,000 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity. …

    Source: News
  • Published on Dec 13, 2019

    Power supply crisis in South Africa escalates, putting mining operations and the wider economy at risk

    It was notable in South Africa this week that along with faulty infrastructure, flooding and wet coal, the idea of sabotage was also invoked as a major cause of the growing crisis at parastatal electricity generator Eskom. And the accusation of sabotage …

    Source: Proactive Investors Australia
  • Published on Dec 13, 2019

    Saboteurs had full knowledge of how power station worked – Eskom COO

    Eskom chief operating officer (COO) Jan Oberholzer on Thursday said the alleged sabotage at Eskom was carried out by people with full knowledge of the Tutuka power station in Mpumalanga. Oberholzer told Cape Talk that the sabotage was not the root of load- …

    Source: Herald
  • Published on Dec 13, 2019

    Eskom is turning out the lights in South Africa

    IN RECENT DAYS the only thing darker than South Africans’ homes has been their humour. On December 9th Eskom, the state-owned power utility, announced its biggest-ever blackouts, turning off the lights across Africa’s most industrialised country. Some wags …

    Source: Economist
  • Published on Dec 13, 2019

    Gore calls out China for financing coal power plants

    MADRID (Reuters) - Former U.S. vice president and longtime climate campaigner Al Gore urged China on Thursday to stop financing coal power plants at a meeting with the lead climate negotiator for the world’s second-largest economy at U.N. talks in Madrid. …

    Source: Reuters
  • Published on Dec 13, 2019

    Elikhulu exemplifies South Africa’s project panache

    If ever a project exemplified South Africa’s project panache, it is the gold-from-tailings project, Elikhulu, which means ‘The Big One’ in Zulu. This ‘Big One’, which is the fourth and largest tailings endeavour of the London- and Johannesburg-listed Pan …

    Source: Mining Weekly
  • Published on Dec 14, 2019

    No load-shedding over the long weekend, says Eskom

    Power utility Eskom said on Friday night that it did not expect load-shedding over the long weekend. In a statement issued on social media channels at about 8.30pm, the embattled parastatal said that lower demand for electricity – combined with the …

    Source: Herald
  • Published on Dec 12, 2019

    Coal is destroying South Africa. Renewables are the future        

    Eskom is too big to fail. The fate of the power utility and the fate of this country are one and the same. And right now plans to rescue Eskom lie in doubling down on its coal-fired power plants, on a fleet that can — on a day without load-shedding — only …

    Source: Mail & Guardian
  • Published on Dec 13, 2019

    Zimbabwe’s Economy Is Hobbled by a Clash of Egos

    HARARE (Bloomberg) — At the heart of Zimbabwe’s economic paralysis is a personality clash. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor John Mangudya don’t get on, are pursuing different agendas and at times issue directives without …

    Source: Zimbabwe Mail
  • Published on Dec 12, 2019

    Ramaphosa blames sabotage for increased blackouts in South Africa

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday partly blamed acts of sabotage for recent power cuts that are the worst that the country has ever suffered. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa The outages, implemented to prevent a collapse of the …

    Source: Zimbabwe News
  • Published on Dec 13, 2019

    Zimbabwe receiving "uninterrupted power supply" from Eskom

    Of course, Christmas is a time for giving. But that really shouldn’t be the case when there’s nothing left to give. Zimbabwe’s Energy Minister Fortune Chasi has revealed that Eskom are continuing to supply the country with electricity, despite entering …

    Source: Zimbabwe News
  • Published on Dec 13, 2019

    Eskom slams claims that Zimbabwe had been connecting power illegally

    Cape Town - Power utility Eskom has denied claims that Zimbabwe had been connecting electricity illegally. This comes after an article was published on satire website Ihlaya News, reporting that the struggling state owned entity had "just discovered …

    Source: Zimbabwe News

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European Gas Conference is the leading midstream and LNG event. Set in the heart of Europe in Vienna with our hosts OMV we assess the biggest challenges facing the European market by bridging Western and European players. This is the only meeting where you can set out your strategy for the year ahead alongside the largest delegation of Europe’s largest supplier, Gazprom. With the whole of the European community in attendance, you cannot afford to miss out!

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Held every February in Houston, the annual NAPE Summit Week is a networking event that brings together all the players necessary to forge, facilitate and close deals. In the upstream oil and gas business, it is the largest and most successful event of its kind in the world. This massive, week-long event offers prospects, producers and purchasers a unique chance to connect, reconnect and make deals. For those who seek to be successful in the upstream oil and gas business, the NAPE Summit Week is a “must attend” event that has the potential to open up a myriad of new and unexpected opportunities. Before the 14.66 acres of exhibition space for deal making opens, NAPE Summit Week is broken out into sessions that bring together respected and renowned speakers, vendors and attendees for ...

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