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Globally active Sub-Saharan Africa Projects Newsletter Issue: January 2014· www.roedl.com/it Summary: How to use the Newsletter > Angola 1. The newsletter provides information about Sub- > Kenya Saharan Africa projects, taken from different official > Mozambique sources (World Bank, IFC, Afdb, AIB, EU, National > Nigeria Governments, Africa Project Access etc.). > Pan Africa 2. An additional service offers further details on the Project itself. If a subscriber is particularly interested in a specific Project and feels that further information is required, he or she is welcome to contact Rödl & Partner: (tel. +39 049 8046911; fax: +39 049 8046920; e-mail: [email protected]; federi- [email protected]). 3. It should be remembered that Rödl & Partner only provides the initial leads, while, later on, it is up to the subscriber to develop the Project and secure the business. 1 Sub-Saharan Africa Projects Angola Stage in project cycle: Implementation. Contract details: The northern Kwanza Norte > province may become Angola’s major hydroelectric Rödl & Partner Padova > > complex in the next five years with the Laúca and Cambambe dams, situated along Kwanza River, soon Description & Location: Angola / Chinguar. to be able to generate more than 3000 MW of Subsector: Agricolture. electricity and thus to promote national > Stage in project cycle: Planning. industrialization. Under construction since 2012, the > Contract details: The "Angola Investe" programme is Laúca dam is expected to produce 2,070 MW, while > an initiative of the Angolan Executive allowed in 2013 Kambambe dam, which is being rehabilitated and > for an increase in the production of white potatoes in modernized, will generate 960 MW, thus, totalling a Alfeu Vinevala farm, in Chinguar municipality, central global production of 3,030 MW. The Kambambe dam Bié Province, as well as boosted the sale of this product was built in the 1950s and began undergoing a in other regions of the country. Not only production rehabilitation and modernization process in 2009, with levels increased, but distribution has also been made the aim of increasing its electrical production capacity easier thanks to the resumption of the train service of from 18 MW to 960 MW. the Benguela Railway Company (CFB). Angola Kenya Rödl & Partner Padova >Rödl & Partner Padova > Description & Location: Kenya. Description & Location: Angola / Huila Province. Subsector: Energy, Water & Sanitation. Subsector: Health care. > Stage in project cycle: Early Implementation. > Stage in project cycle: Implementation, 80% > Contract details: The Microsol project, aimed at > completed. > developing a single, modular standard technology for > Contract details: The southern Huila province will > producing electricity, drinking water, and heat build 10 hospitals and have more physicians in the simultaneously, has been inaugurated in Kenya by > existing health facilities in the region, under the Schneider Electric. Microsol is based on the principle of municipalisation programme of health services. More cogeneration of electricity and heat and uses the solar hospitals are scheduled to be built in the municipalities thermodynamic technology to benefit micro-industries of Quipungo, Chibia, Cacula, Caluquembe, Jamba, located in rural areas of countries with high levels of Kuvango, Chicomba, Humpata, Chipindo Lubango and sunshine. The focus is on the design of thermal storage Gambos. It was also reported that, in cooperation with that uses only environmentally-friendly products, with the Cuban government and Jean Piajet University, the aim of meeting three basic needs: access to physicians from different specialities will be introduced reliable, efficient, and inexpensive electricity; clean in the various municipalities in order to improve the drinking water; continuous and environmentally sound health situation in the province. Last year medical heat generation. A Microsol solution produces 50 MW practitioners were placed in the hospitals of the h/year of electricity, 1000 m³/year of drinking water, municipalities of Chibia, Matala, Caconda, Gambos and around 800 MW h/year of thermal energy. Kenya and Kuvango, as well as at the new health units. was chosen as pilot country for the industrialization Government aims to ensure greater, more permanent, and commercialization of Microsol as it meets a set of monitoring of the implementation of these services, favourable conditions for the establishment and especially as substantial amounts of the health Ministry development of this technology. The consortium budget is allocated to this segment. Under the same responsible for the project, headed by Schneider programme, the government will build medical posts Electric, plans to start the commercialization phase of and centres to assist the province’s 200 existing health this pilot project in 2015. facilities. Sponsors and Contractors: Schneider Electric. > Angola Mozambique Rödl & Partner Padova > >Rödl & Partner Padova Description & Location: Angola / Kwanza Norte. Description & Location: Mozambique / Cabo. Subsector: Hydropower. > Subsector: Tourism. > > > 2 Sub-Saharan Africa Projects Issue: January 2014 Stage in project cycle: Implementation. agreement to buy the 10% stake owned by Videocon Contract details: Gandelli, an Italian company with Industries in the same area, for $ 2.5 billion. > headquarters in Turin specialised in building wooden Value/Level of funding: $ 5.5 billion. > houses, is building 20 tourist accommodation units on Financial and other parties: PTTEP (Thailand). the Quirimbas archipelago, in Mozambique’s Cabo > Delgado province. Ferdinando Gandelli, the CEO of the > company founded in 1912, explained that the wooden Mozambique houses had the advantage of being quick to build and were also cool in tropical climates where temperatures >Rödl & Partner Padova are high all year round. In 2013 the Italian company founded “Gandelli Moçambique”, which is now Description & Location: Mozambique. responsible for building the 20 units and small Subsector: Energy. > reception area at a small tourist resort on the island of Stage in project cycle: Planning. > Medjumbe on the archipelago. Gandelli also told that Contract details: According to Pascoal Bacela, > the company had acquired plots of land to build Mozambique’s national director of electricity at the > houses ahead of Anadarko Petroleum and Italy’s ENI, Ministry of Energy, the country must increase its power beginning commercial natural gas exploration in the generation capacity by 100 MW per year in order to Rovuma basin, also in northern Mozambique. keep up with power demands. The government and Value/Level of funding: Unfinalised. private companies in Mozambique are currently Financial and other parties: Gandelli, Gandelli investing in new electricity generation capacity options, > Moçambique. with developments being made in hydro, coal, and > gas-fired power plants. Mozambique’s rich coal and natural gas reserves are attracting foreign investors and Mozambique a 2013 Reuters poll estimates national economic growth to be around 8% in 2014 and in 2015, up >Rödl & Partner Padova 0.9% compared to the growth rate recorded last year. Major foreign companies investing in Mozambique Description & Location: Mozambique. include Brazilian Vale and Rio Tinto, US oil company Subsector: Oil & Gas. Anadarko, and Italian oil and gas group ENI. > Stage in project cycle: Planning. > Contract details: Thailand’s PTT Exploration and Mozambique > Production (PTTEP) plans to invest $ 5.5 billion in 2014, > most of which in its natural gas exploration project in northern Mozambique, the group said according to >Rödl & Partner Padova financial news agency Reuters. PTTEP is the most important subsidiary of Thai state group PTT and owns Description & Location: Mozambique. 8.5% of the consortium led by US group Anadarko Subsector: Energy, Oil & Gas > Petroleum in the Area 1 block of the Rovuma basin, in Stage in project cycle: Pre Implementation. > Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province. Last Contract details: Representatives of the Japanese > December, the PTT group signed a promissory contract private sector and of the Mozambican state sector > with Anadarko Petroleum to acquire 1.6 million tons of have signed six cooperation agreements, as part of an liquid natural gas (LNG) per year from the block, which official visit to Mozambique by Japanese Prime Minister is in the same area where other companies are Shinzo Abe. Amongst the agreements, one is involved in oil and gas surveying. According to the concerning the training for engineers in the energy chief executive of PTTEP, Tevin Vongvanich, the sector between Chiyoda Corporation and Mozambican group’s investment plan for 2014 is 60% higher than state company Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos initially planned, and that most of the investments (ENH); a second one is between Mitsui Corp and ENH would be made in the project in Mozambique. As well to carry out a study on liquid natural gas (LNG). ENH as PTTEP and Anadarko, the consortium responsible for signed a further two memorandums with Mitsui Corp Area 1 of the Rovuma Basin also includes Mozambican and state oil company Petróleos de Moçambique state company Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (Petromoc), furthermore signed a project with (ENH) with 15%, BPRL Ventures Mozambique B.V. Marubeni Corp to transform methanol into gasoline. (10%), Videocon Mozambique (10%). In August of last The memorandums of understanding were signed at year Anadarko reduced its stake by selling
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