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            <title>Nigeria's Dangote breaks ground on $16 billion East African oil refinery in Kenya</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Construction begins on Wednesday of a $16-billion Kenyan oil refinery aimed at lowering East Africa's fuel costs and saving the region hard currency used to import refined products. Aliko Dangote and Kenyan President William Ruto will break ground on the site, where the billionaire wants to replicate his group's 700 000 bl/d Nigerian refinery as countries including Kenya and Uganda look to start producing crude oil.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Petrochemicals giant Sasol has announced the resignation of nonexecutive director Rhidwaan Gasant effective September 25, for personal reasons. 

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            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[TotalEnergies said on Friday its board unanimously backed the renewal of chairperson and CEO Patrick Pouyanne's mandate and reaffirmed the relevance of the energy major's strategy ahead of its investor update scheduled for Monday.

In May, investors had overwhelmingly approved lifting the age limits for its chair and CEO roles, paving the way for Pouyanne to remain at the helm through 2033.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <title>Grid, market reform key for wind</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's electricity tariff structure, not generation technology, is what will determine how renewable-energy assets get built over the next decade, but for now that structure still favours standalone wind over hybrid plants, says independent power producer (IPP) G7 Renewable Energies CEO Kilian Hagemann.

While co-located wind, solar and battery hybrids are often described as the new default for IPPs, Hagemann pushes back on that framing.
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            <author>Keabetswe Shilakwe</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>TotalEnergies, partner launch Ima gas development for Nigeria LNG supply </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Global integrated energy company TotalEnergies, with a 40% interest and as the operator, together with its partner Nigerian company AMNI (with a 60% shareholding), have taken the final investment decision (FID) for the development of the Ima gasfield, straddling the OML 112 and 117 offshore licences in Nigeria. Located in shallow waters close to Bonny Island, the Ima gasfield will be developed with a single platform, connected through a 22 km pipeline to Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), in which TotalEnergies has a 15% interest.]]></description>
            <author>Tasneem Bulbulia</author>
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            <title>South Africa faces $8bn bill to revive State-owned refineries</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa will need more than $8-billion to revive two mothballed state-owned refineries, officials told lawmakers, as the country seeks to strengthen energy security and reduce dependence on imported fuels. South Africa's State-owned Central Energy Fund acquired the flood-damaged 180 000 barrels-per-day Sapref refinery in 2024 from BP and Shell for a token R1. CEF said it plans to revive the refinery's liquefied petroleum gas import and distribution business and lease out existing storage tanks to generate early revenue. The plan is to upgrade the refinery to a 400 000 to 650 000 bpd plant with National Treasury approval and a final investment decision targeted for 2027/28, the CEF said in a statement late on Monday.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The National Transmission Company South Africa (NTCSA) says it will have a significant presence at this year’s Windaba conference, which will be held in Cape Town on October 6 and 7, where it will be placing transmission expansion, grid access, electricity market reform and practical industry solutions at the centre of discussions about South Africa’s evolving energy system. The NTCSA will serve as a strategic partner to Windaba for the second consecutive year. It says this places importance on continued engagement with the wind industry as it advances one of the country’s most ambitious infrastructure programmes.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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            <title>Opinion: South Africa’s energy debate has skipped a step</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In this opinion article, Dr Ross Compton, who is Senior Director of Global Policy for the EnerGeo Alliance, argues that South Africa has oil and gas geological potential and that an enabling environment for responsible seismic surveys and exploration should, thus, be created.]]></description>
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