The gas to power market is large in North Africa.
It is growing fast in Ghana and has shown encouraging uptick in Tanzania.
Nigeria is punching below its weight, running a distant third after Egypt and Algeria, even with much more abundant gas resources than either of them and more than double the population of each of these two countries.
Namibia has had a great opportunity to take the tide at the brim, but it has been shy to grab it.
Mozambique has everything to take off in the sector, but it has very little ambition.
South Africa keeps fiddling with the chance to become a massive gas fired economy, and has shown either cluelessness about, or utter disdain for, developing either imported gas or local discoveries.
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We have stories in this edition, of the broken link in the line from the well head to the Power Plant in Nigeria; the energy challenges facing Egypt and the “good problem” North Africa has in choosing between export to nearby Europe or responding to growing appetite at home
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