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Vol. 2 No: 8 Friday, April 5th, <strong>2017</strong> oilandgasrepublic ogrepublic oil and gas republic michealobineme oilandgasrepublic<br />
Egbin Power<br />
hits another<br />
Milestone for<br />
Power<br />
Generation<br />
in Africa<br />
Page 7<br />
CyberSecurity<br />
for Energy:<br />
Roadmap<br />
to Achieve<br />
Energy<br />
Delivery<br />
Systems<br />
Page 6<br />
Netherlands based company, <strong>Solar</strong>plaza Organizes<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>’s First <strong>Solar</strong> PV Conference in Lagos<br />
By Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal<br />
Netherland based company, <strong>Solar</strong>plaza<br />
organized a 2-day conference, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Solar</strong> <strong>Future</strong><br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>, which was focused on the opportunities<br />
and challenges in this exciting and evolving<br />
landscape of <strong>Nigeria</strong>’s solar market. This was<br />
<strong>Solar</strong>plaza’s 8th event in Africa. <strong>The</strong> company’s<br />
home base, www.solarplaza.com, is an<br />
independent platform for knowledge and<br />
insights, supported by the (free) daily solar<br />
industry newsletter, SUN.<br />
<strong>Solar</strong>plaza has been organizing international<br />
high-level conferences and exploratory trade<br />
missions in both established and emerging<br />
markets across the globe. With a track-record<br />
spanning five continents, twenty-nine countries,<br />
forty-two cities and a total of over eighty events.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Solar</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Nigeria</strong> took place at the<br />
Intercontinental Hotel, located on Victoria<br />
= <strong>The</strong> first <strong>Solar</strong> PV conference on the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n market<br />
= With a Record Breaking Audience of 200+ executives<br />
= Covering the full solar PV electrification spectrum<br />
= Tailored B2B Business & Finance matchmaking session<br />
Island, in the centre of Lagos, home to major<br />
consulates and multinational companies,<br />
making it the perfect residence for affluent<br />
business and diplomatic travelers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2 day conference gathered over 250 high<br />
level executives including industry experts to<br />
discuss the challenges & opportunities in the<br />
immediate future for <strong>Nigeria</strong>’s On-grid &<br />
Distributed <strong>Solar</strong> Power Market. <strong>The</strong> 2 day<br />
conference, brought together solar companies,<br />
international and local stakeholders, project<br />
developers, EPC’s IPP’s and manufacturers,<br />
financiers and investors and decision makers in<br />
one place for unparalleled networking<br />
opportunities and to discussing the sector’s<br />
challenges and successes, including local<br />
markets, capacity building and investment.<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> is a country endowed with lots of natural<br />
resources to be energy independent. However,<br />
lack of investment in energy infrastructure over<br />
a long period of time has brought the sector to<br />
many challenges. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Nigeria</strong>n Government<br />
have been taking several measures to revive the<br />
sector but it has still not yielded significant result<br />
in improving and providing efficient power<br />
supply to the entire nation.<br />
Page 5<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> is well know as one of the biggest<br />
economies in Africa with over 170 million<br />
people, yet the country has been striving to<br />
provide a consistent power supply to the entire<br />
nation at large.<br />
As the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n government and the private<br />
sector are increasingly turning towards<br />
renewable energy to solve the power outage<br />
problems, <strong>Nigeria</strong> is emerging to be one of the<br />
most attractive solar markets in the world.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Solar</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Nigeria</strong> organized by<br />
<strong>Solar</strong>plaza covered the full solar PV<br />
electrification spectrum: from utility scale to<br />
pico-solar which will also enabled foreign<br />
investors to gain valuable insight on the<br />
opportunities in the <strong>Nigeria</strong>’s solar future.<br />
Continued on Page 5<br />
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Industry Players in the Power Sector<br />
to Gather in Lagos for Power<br />
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Page 11<br />
Scatec <strong>Solar</strong> and partners<br />
signs 25-year PPA for 400MW<br />
in Egypt<br />
Page 16<br />
Europe’s largest recruitment firm, Coberon Chronos Group extends its<br />
business activities into the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n market<br />
By Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal<br />
Coberon Chronos Group has extended<br />
its recruitment, payrolling, contracting<br />
, RPO and software services into<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> with a fully staffed operation in Lagos,<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>. Working in partnership with Oil & Gas<br />
Republic Publication the Group already has over<br />
3,000 vacancies in the oil and gas sector and over<br />
1,500 vacancies in other key sectors of the<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>n economy.<br />
Here are a few areas in which Oil & Gas<br />
Republic and the Coberon Chronos Group are<br />
active:<br />
Oil and Gas<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> is an oil rich country, ranked 13th largest<br />
producer of petroleum in the world according to<br />
recent report and was the world's fourth-largest<br />
exporter of LNG in 2015, and the leading oil<br />
producer in Africa. (<strong>The</strong> country joined OPEC in<br />
1971).<br />
Telecommunications<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> has one of the fastest growing<br />
telecommunications markets in the world, major<br />
emerging market operators (like MTN, Etisalat,<br />
Airtel, Globacom etc..) basing their largest and<br />
most profitable centres in the country.<br />
Financial Services<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> has a highly developed financial<br />
services sector, with a mix of local and<br />
international banks, asset management<br />
companies, brokerage houses, insurance<br />
companies and brokers, private equity funds<br />
and investment banks.<br />
Mining/Mineral Resources<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> also has a wide array of underexploited<br />
mineral resources which include natural gas,<br />
coal, bauxite, tantalite, gold, tin, iron ore,<br />
limestone,niobium, lead and zinc.<br />
Agricultural business<br />
Agriculture used to be the principal foreign<br />
exchange earner of <strong>Nigeria</strong>.<br />
Continued on Page 5<br />
CELLO unveils world’s first<br />
solar TV in the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n market<br />
Page 19<br />
Thailand gears up to be<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> Energy Hub For Asia’<br />
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Netherlands based company, <strong>Solar</strong>plaza Organizes<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>’s First <strong>Solar</strong> PV Conference in Lagos<br />
By Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal<br />
Netherland based company, <strong>Solar</strong>plaza<br />
organized a 2-day conference, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Solar</strong><br />
<strong>Future</strong> <strong>Nigeria</strong>, which was focused on the<br />
opportunities and challenges in this exciting<br />
and evolving landscape of <strong>Nigeria</strong>’s solar<br />
market. This was <strong>Solar</strong>plaza’s 8th event in<br />
Africa. <strong>The</strong> company’s home base,<br />
www.solarplaza.com, is an independent<br />
platform for knowledge and insights,<br />
supported by the (free) daily solar industry<br />
newsletter, SUN.<br />
S o l a r p l a z a h a s b e e n o r g a n i z i n g<br />
international high-level conferences and<br />
exploratory trade missions in both<br />
established and emerging markets across<br />
the globe. With a track-record spanning five<br />
continents, twenty-nine countries, fortytwo<br />
cities and a total of over eighty events.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Solar</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Nigeria</strong> took place at the<br />
Intercontinental Hotel, located on Victoria<br />
Island, in the centre of Lagos, home to major<br />
consulates and multinational companies,<br />
making it the perfect residence for affluent<br />
business and diplomatic travelers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2 day conference gathered over 250<br />
high level executives including industry<br />
experts to discuss the challenges &<br />
opportunities in the immediate future for<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>’s On-grid & Distributed <strong>Solar</strong><br />
Power Market. <strong>The</strong> 2 day conference,<br />
brought together solar companies,<br />
international and local stakeholders, project<br />
developers, EPC’s IPP’s and manufacturers,<br />
financiers and investors and decision<br />
makers in one place for unparalleled<br />
= <strong>The</strong> first <strong>Solar</strong> PV conference on the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n market<br />
= With a Record Breaking Audience of 200+ executives<br />
= Covering the full solar PV electrification spectrum<br />
= Tailored B2B Business & Finance matchmaking session<br />
By Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal<br />
networking opportunities and to discussing<br />
the sector’s challenges and successes,<br />
including local markets, capacity building<br />
and investment.<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> is a country endowed with lots of<br />
natural resources to be energy independent.<br />
However, lack of investment in energy<br />
infrastructure over a long period of time has<br />
brought the sector to many challenges. <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>n Government have been taking<br />
several measures to revive the sector but it<br />
has still not yielded significant result in<br />
improving and providing efficient power<br />
supply to the entire nation.<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> is well know as one of the biggest<br />
economies in Africa with over 170 million<br />
people, yet the country has been striving to<br />
provide a consistent power supply to the<br />
entire nation at large.<br />
As the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n government and the private<br />
sector are increasingly turning towards<br />
renewable energy to solve the power outage<br />
problems, <strong>Nigeria</strong> is emerging to be one of<br />
the most attractive solar markets in the<br />
world.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Solar</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Nigeria</strong> organized by<br />
<strong>Solar</strong>plaza covered the full solar PV<br />
electrification spectrum: from utility scale<br />
to pico-solar which will also enabled<br />
foreign investors to gain valuable insight on<br />
the opportunities in the <strong>Nigeria</strong>’s solar<br />
future.<br />
Europe’s largest recruitment firm, Coberon Chronos Group extends its business<br />
activities into the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n market<br />
Coberon Chronos Group has extended<br />
its recruitment, payrolling, contracting<br />
, RPO and software services into<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> with a fully staffed operation in Lagos,<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>. Working in partnership with Oil & Gas<br />
Republic Publication the Group already has over<br />
3,000 vacancies in the oil and gas sector and over<br />
1,500 vacancies in other key sectors of the<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>n economy. Here are a few areas in<br />
which Oil & Gas Republic and the Coberon<br />
Chronos Group are active:<br />
Oil and Gas<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> is an oil rich country, ranked 13th largest<br />
producer of petroleum in the world according to<br />
recent report and was the world's fourth-largest<br />
exporter of LNG in 2015, and the leading oil<br />
producer in Africa. (<strong>The</strong> country joined OPEC in<br />
1971).<br />
Telecommunications<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> has one of the fastest growing<br />
telecommunications markets in the world, major<br />
emerging market operators (like MTN, Etisalat,<br />
Airtel, Globacom etc..) basing their largest and<br />
most profitable centres in the country.<br />
Financial Services<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> has a highly developed financial services<br />
sector, with a mix of local and international<br />
banks, asset management companies, brokerage<br />
houses, insurance companies and brokers, private<br />
equity funds and investment banks.<br />
Mining/Mineral Resources<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> also has a wide array of underexploited<br />
mineral resources which include natural gas,<br />
coal, bauxite, tantalite, gold, tin, iron ore,<br />
limestone,niobium, lead and zinc.<br />
Agricultural business<br />
Agriculture used to be the principal foreign<br />
exchange earner of <strong>Nigeria</strong>. At one time,<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> was the world's largest exporter of<br />
groundnuts, cocoa, and palm oil and a<br />
significant producer of coconuts, citrus fruits,<br />
maize, pearl millet, cassava, yams and sugar<br />
cane. About 60% of <strong>Nigeria</strong>ns work in the<br />
agricultural sector, and <strong>Nigeria</strong> has vast areas<br />
of underutilized arable land. <strong>The</strong> Chronos<br />
Group and Oil & Gas Republic have over 10<br />
year's experience in recruitment for<br />
agribusiness projects worldwide.<br />
Other sectors<br />
It also has a manufacturing industry which<br />
includes leather and textiles (centred Kano,<br />
Abeokuta, Onitsha, and Lagos), car<br />
m a n u f a c t u r i n g ( f o r t h e F r e n c h c a r<br />
manufacturer Peugeot as well as for the English<br />
truck manufacturer Bedford, now a subsidiary<br />
By Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal<br />
of General Motors), t-shirts, plastics and<br />
processed food.<br />
Chronos continuing mission is to provide<br />
uniquely flexible and innovative staffing,<br />
training and outsourcing solutions in global<br />
markets and its candidate network has been<br />
built over many years from networking &<br />
recommendations.<br />
Coberon Chronos Group are best placed to help<br />
with any role that falls within the oil and gas,<br />
IT/Telecom, mining, Renewable/Energy, RPO,<br />
process management, sales, human resource.<br />
Chronos has a unique, truly global network that<br />
works as one entity to service its clients’ needs<br />
without borders. Not only do Chronos have a<br />
global presence it have a true global reach to the<br />
largest pool of candidates in the industry.<br />
<strong>Solar</strong>plaza positions Africa’s <strong>Solar</strong> Market and Opportunities in the Spotlight<br />
<strong>Solar</strong>plaza is a group of over 25 highlymotivated,<br />
proactive, young professionals. At<br />
our office in Rotterdam (NL), we argue in 13<br />
different languages and travel to 16 foreign<br />
destinations every year. Through our events,<br />
newsletters and news portal, we help renewable<br />
energy professionals become more effective in<br />
their business development by providing unique<br />
networking opportunities and high-level<br />
content.<br />
<strong>Solar</strong>plaza have successfully organized marketfocused<br />
conferences in countries around the<br />
world, including events in emerging markets<br />
like Senegal, South Africa, Mexico, Panama,<br />
India and Thailand. Apart from that, we've also<br />
hosted many in-depth topic-focused events.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se have ranged from events diving into<br />
financing for developing countries, conferences<br />
on crowdfunding for renewables and specific<br />
financing structures like yieldcos; to technical<br />
events on operations & maintenance and asset<br />
management.<br />
<strong>Solar</strong>plaza has organized multiple events on and<br />
about the African continent, among which:<br />
Ÿ Unlocking <strong>Solar</strong> Capital Africa (Nairobi,<br />
Kenya)<br />
Ÿ S o l a r F i n a n c e S o l u t i o n s A f r i c a<br />
(Johannesburg, South Africa)<br />
Ÿ <strong>Solar</strong>/Diesel Africa (Johannesburg, South<br />
Africa)<br />
Ÿ Competitive <strong>Solar</strong> Solutions West Africa<br />
(Dakar, Senegal)<br />
As part of the company’s success stories in<br />
Africa, <strong>Solar</strong>plaza is organizing <strong>The</strong> <strong>Solar</strong><br />
<strong>Future</strong> <strong>Nigeria</strong>, a 2-day conference focusing on<br />
the opportunities and challenges in this exciting<br />
and evolving landscape, to be the key-platform<br />
for all stakeholders to connect.<br />
<strong>The</strong> event is the first <strong>Solar</strong> PV conference focused<br />
solely on the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n market bringing in all<br />
relevant companies, developers, financiers and<br />
investors and decision makers in one place for<br />
unparalleled networking opportunities.<br />
This year conference will be covering the full<br />
solar PV electrification spectrum: from utility<br />
scale to pico-solar and in between. Tailored<br />
B2B Business and Finance matchmaking<br />
session, connecting projects with financiers<br />
and other key market participants will be<br />
available during the event. As the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n<br />
government and the private sector are<br />
increasingly turning towards <strong>Solar</strong> PV to solve<br />
this issue, <strong>Nigeria</strong> is emerging to be one of the<br />
most attractive solar markets in the region.<br />
According to report, Africa will witness an<br />
increase of over 4 GW in installed solar capacity<br />
during the years to come. <strong>The</strong> opportunities in<br />
Africa’s solar market is enormous as a range of<br />
international investors are planning and<br />
constructing large scale solar power plants in the<br />
African region.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Solar</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Nigeria</strong> focuses all major<br />
stakeholders in the country to address all forms<br />
of solar applications ranging from utility scale to<br />
pico solar.<br />
<strong>The</strong> need for energy and the abundance of<br />
sunshine provide strong justifications for<br />
adopting solar energy in Africa. <strong>The</strong><br />
electrification of Africa has not only become a<br />
necessity for the region’s economic<br />
development but judging by the increased<br />
interest of international owners and developers<br />
solar has become financially competitive as<br />
well.
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CyberSecurity for Energy: Roadmap to Achieve Energy<br />
Delivery Systems - Riaan Badenhorst<br />
As a result of technology innovations,<br />
‘self-contained’ electrical power<br />
control systems can no longer be<br />
considered isolated. Rather, most are<br />
now globally integrated, connecting<br />
with other corporate services. In the<br />
energy sector, new levels of<br />
connectivity, combined with the<br />
pervasiveness of IT and Internet<br />
technologies in daily life (smart grids)<br />
is a reality, however these systems can<br />
be highly exposed from an IT security<br />
perspective, which creates major<br />
challenges for the electric power sector.<br />
In fact, Kaspersky Lab’s recent report<br />
on industrial cybersecurity found that<br />
92% of externally available industrial<br />
control system (ICS) devices use open<br />
and insecure Internet connection<br />
protocols.<br />
<strong>The</strong> risk of cyber-attacks in the energy<br />
sector is greater than ever before and, as<br />
a result, IT security has become a key<br />
point of discussion within the industrial<br />
sector. Modern electrical power grids<br />
are complex networks, with integrated<br />
automation and control functions, that<br />
communicate through open protocols<br />
and do not have sufficient built-in<br />
cybersecurity functions to combat the<br />
increasingly sophisticated range of<br />
security threats they face.<br />
An effective security approach and<br />
solution is needed, to further help the<br />
energy sector in managing this. Such an<br />
approach to cybersecurity in the energy<br />
sector must accumulate intelligence on<br />
the latest threats, in order to develop<br />
protection technologies that are<br />
effective. This is especially true for<br />
industrial infrastructure, which has<br />
specific threats, highly customised<br />
hardware and software, and strict<br />
requirements for reliability.<br />
Kaspersky Lab offers Kaspersky<br />
Industrial CyberSecurity (KICS) for<br />
Energy, which is dedicated to helping<br />
energy companies secure every layer of<br />
their industrial infrastructure, without<br />
impacting on the operational continuity<br />
and consistency of technological<br />
processes. Kaspersky Lab’s solution<br />
protects SCADA level control centers<br />
and Substation Automation Systems on<br />
every level: upper level of automation<br />
including: Servers, HMI, Gateways<br />
Engineering workstations.<br />
Secondary automation equipment:<br />
Protection relays, Bay Controllers,<br />
Merging units, RTU and other<br />
substation bus and process bus IED and<br />
overall network infrastructure.<br />
Riaan Badenhorst, Managing Director,<br />
Kaspersky Lab Africa<br />
E l e c t r i c a l p o w e r e q u i p m e n t<br />
automation, control and protection are<br />
no longer handled by closed systems<br />
and, as things stand, detecting a<br />
potential threat can be extremely<br />
difficult, both technically and<br />
organisationally. <strong>The</strong> energy sector<br />
needs to start paying very careful<br />
attention to IT security of their<br />
industrial infrastructure. Energy<br />
enterprises need to bolster their<br />
defenses to combat increasingly<br />
prevalent cyberattacks and avoid the<br />
nightmare scenario of complete loss of<br />
service – not to mention the impact that<br />
this would have on citizens and society<br />
in general, should an attack happen.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re may be some overlap in the<br />
threats, however there are significant<br />
differences between the cyber security<br />
requirements of ICS environments and<br />
those of general business. Corporate<br />
environments focus on safeguarding<br />
confidential data; when it comes to<br />
industrial systems, where every minute<br />
of downtime or error counts,<br />
uninterrupted operations are the<br />
ultimate priority. This is what<br />
distinguishes industrial cybersecurity<br />
from other businesses – and makes<br />
working with the right security vendor<br />
so important.<br />
Industrial cybersecurity solutions<br />
should include three key pillars:<br />
• A process-based approach to security<br />
implementation<br />
• Employee awareness/education<br />
• Technologies created specifically for<br />
industrial environments<br />
K a s p e r s k y L a b ’s i n d u s t r i a l<br />
cybersecurity approach is holistic:<br />
• Process: <strong>The</strong>re’s no out-of-box<br />
solution for industrial cybersecurity.<br />
It’s a process that begins with an audit,<br />
prepares people for change and moves<br />
through gradual roll-out with minimal<br />
disruption.<br />
Through our research, Kaspersky Lab<br />
have identified a few key challenging<br />
areas within the energy sector that need<br />
more attention, in order to safeguard<br />
enterprises and critical Infrastructure in<br />
this industry. <strong>The</strong>se include:<br />
• O p e n a n d u n p r o t e c t e d<br />
communication lines between<br />
protection and control system<br />
components, as well as between power<br />
infrastructure facilities.<br />
• Lack of cybersecurity awareness<br />
among employees - a limited number of<br />
technical personnel maintain large<br />
numbers of devices that are often<br />
distributed on a territory and function<br />
without permanent monitoring. On-site<br />
personnel often lack even a basic<br />
knowledge of cybersecurity.<br />
• Security requirements are not<br />
followed - information security<br />
requirements are rarely considered in<br />
the device or software design and<br />
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of contractor<br />
access control - the use of contracting<br />
organisations for certain types of<br />
maintenance work is common.<br />
Consequently however, it is extremely<br />
important to provide only temporary<br />
access to a limited amount of<br />
equipment that has no influence on<br />
other system components, and<br />
cancellation of access on completion of<br />
the work is vital.<br />
• Long lifetime of vulnerable<br />
components - the lifetime of devices<br />
and protection and control systems is<br />
20-30 years. This means that insecure<br />
systems installed today will only be<br />
replaced in a couple of decades or so.<br />
In addition to this, the lack of guidelines<br />
defining actions to be taken when<br />
suspicious activity is detected within<br />
automated systems, also leads to an<br />
organisation being vulnerable.<br />
Furthermore, the lack of documents and<br />
practices relating to the investigation of<br />
disturbances in technological<br />
environments - including malicious<br />
influence on control systems through<br />
information technologies, also leads to<br />
further vulnerability (for example, due<br />
to their age, some reference documents<br />
for the investigation and classification<br />
of technological disturbances do not<br />
even consider cybersecurity incidents<br />
as a possible cause of malfunction).<br />
If such an incident even takes place, the<br />
concern is that the real causes will not<br />
be revealed. As a result, the appropriate<br />
measures will not be taken and the<br />
incident may reoccur. Given these<br />
realities, it is evident that the energy<br />
sector needs to invest in IY security that<br />
e f f e c t i v e l y s a f e g u a r d s t h e i r<br />
infrastructure and takes all of the above<br />
into account.<br />
<strong>The</strong> IEC 62351 “Power systems<br />
management and associated<br />
information exchange - Data and<br />
communications security”<br />
standard describes in detail the<br />
possible tools for complex<br />
information security provision at<br />
electric power facilities.<br />
However, most of the proposed<br />
s o l u t i o n s c a n o n l y b e<br />
implemented with a complete<br />
replacement of automation<br />
devices as soon as they require<br />
format and communication<br />
p r o t o c o l p r o c e d u r e<br />
modifications. Even though a full<br />
implementation of IEC 62351<br />
looks like a distant prospect<br />
under the circumstances, part of<br />
the requirements can be fulfilled<br />
and applied to modern systems.<br />
K a s p e r s k y I n d u s t r i a l<br />
CyberSecurity (KICS) is a<br />
holistic solution for industrial<br />
infrastructures that fulfills these<br />
requirements.<br />
Among companies using<br />
K a s p e r s k y I n d u s t r i a l<br />
CyberSecurity we can name, for<br />
example, Latvian SIA VARS that<br />
specialises in the storage and<br />
shipment of liquid chemicals;<br />
TANECO Russian oil refining<br />
company that is part of Tatneft<br />
Group.<br />
T o d a y ’ s a p p r o a c h t o<br />
cybersecurity highlights the<br />
importance of accumulating<br />
intelligence on the latest threats,<br />
in order to develop protection<br />
technologies. This is especially<br />
true for industrial infrastructure,<br />
which has specific threats, highly<br />
customised hardware and<br />
software, and strict requirements<br />
for reliability. As a security<br />
vendor, we have years of<br />
experience analysing threats and<br />
helping industrial operators with<br />
threat prevention and detection,<br />
incident response, staff training,<br />
and the prediction of future attack<br />
vectors. We are confident that<br />
sharing intelligence, or, in a<br />
broader way, exchanging<br />
knowledge between vendors and<br />
operators, is an important step<br />
towards more secure critical<br />
infrastructure. By establishing<br />
Industrial Systems Computer<br />
Emergency Response Team<br />
(known as Kaspersky Lab ICS-<br />
CERT) we are expanding the<br />
availability of the industry’s<br />
expertise in a way that no other<br />
private security vendor has done<br />
before.<br />
Protecting ICS environments<br />
calls for a very different approach<br />
from that used for securing<br />
business IT systems. For<br />
business IT networks, the first<br />
priority is maintaining the<br />
confidentiality of sensitive<br />
business data – and, although<br />
availability of the IT service is<br />
important, it’s not as vital as<br />
confidentiality and integrity.
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Egbin Power hits another milestone in Africa’s<br />
power generation<br />
By Ayobami Adedinni<br />
Over the years, Egbin Power Plc has<br />
acquired a reputation as the symbol of<br />
indigenous expertise in the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n<br />
Eectricity industry through its series of<br />
groundbreaking innovations. <strong>The</strong><br />
company’s successful acquisition in 2013<br />
by the partnership between New<br />
Electricity Distribution Company and the<br />
Korean Electric Power Corporation<br />
(NEDC/KEPCO) acquired Egbin Power<br />
plc, has inspired a new direction of<br />
excellence, world-class performance and<br />
best heath/safety/environmental standards<br />
for the company and a clear testament<br />
about the maturity of indigenous players in<br />
electricity sector and an overwhelming<br />
testimony about their capacity to execute<br />
and deliver best-in-class projects.<br />
Egbin Power Plant,a thermal power station<br />
with an installed capacity of 1320 MW<br />
consisting of 6 Units of 220MW each a<br />
landmark decision was constructed near<br />
Lagos to shore up power supply in the<br />
nation. This would set the tone for the<br />
construction of Egbin Power Plant, one of<br />
the biggest power stations in Africa<br />
<strong>The</strong> partnership with KEPCO brings to<br />
Egbin decades of sustained excellent<br />
performance as KEPCO, the largest<br />
electricity utility company in Asia in terms<br />
of Transmission and Distribution, is<br />
amongst the largest nuclear power<br />
exporting companies and is also involved<br />
in every form of generation from wind,<br />
thermal, coal, solar, mass, hydro and<br />
renewable energy.<br />
Recently, it has expressed interest in<br />
investing about $630 million in Tanzania<br />
energy sector, and is considering putting<br />
up a natural gas-fired power plant in the<br />
East African country.<br />
This would be a huge boost to Tanzania’s<br />
power generation, and is the newest<br />
public-private partnership project<br />
expected to turn around the energy sector<br />
in the country.<br />
<strong>The</strong> firm’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr<br />
Dallas Peavey, said the construction of the<br />
plant is expected to commence any time<br />
after the company, under Sahara Group,<br />
has inked the investment pact with the host<br />
government. Egbin is resolute in its<br />
commitment to using continuing<br />
investment in new technologies and robust<br />
human capital to deliver world class<br />
services in power generation and supply in<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>, and ultimately, other parts of<br />
Africa.<br />
Egbin is constantly involved in deploying<br />
technology and empowering its people to<br />
ensure it significantly reduces the<br />
environmental and public health impacts<br />
of its operations. <strong>The</strong> company continues<br />
to pursue investments and partnerships<br />
that will facilitate compliance widely<br />
acclaimed HSE standards. This pursuit is a<br />
passion shared by every member of the<br />
Egbin family who are bound by the credo:<br />
Safety First, All the Time.<br />
A safety-focused organization, on<br />
execution of its industry-defining projects,<br />
it maintains and adheres to the highest<br />
safety standards which guarantees the<br />
safety of its employees and other<br />
stakeholders.<br />
<strong>The</strong> company is also looking at renewable<br />
energy in Kenya, ethiopia and olther<br />
countries and plans on doing photovoltaic<br />
(PV) solar in order to reduce internal<br />
usage in order to have more power to sell<br />
to the grid.<br />
A photovoltaic system, also PV system or<br />
solar power system, is a power system<br />
designed to supply usable solar power by<br />
means of photovoltaics. It consists of an<br />
arrangement of several components,<br />
including solar panels to absorb and<br />
convert sunlight into electricity, a solar<br />
inverter to change the electric current from<br />
DC to AC, as well as mounting, cabling<br />
and other electrical accessories to set up a<br />
working system.<br />
Utility-scale solar photovoltaic<br />
technologies convert energy from sunlight<br />
directly into electricity, using large arrays<br />
of solar panels. <strong>Solar</strong> photovoltaic<br />
technologies convert solar energy into<br />
useful energy forms by directly absorbing<br />
solar photons—particles of light that act as<br />
individual units of energy—and either<br />
converting part of the energy to electricity<br />
(as in a photovoltaic (PV) cell) or storing<br />
part of the energy in a chemical reaction<br />
(as in the conversion of water to hydrogen<br />
and oxygen).<br />
Dallas Peavey has built a 667 MW<br />
PV power plant in California which<br />
is the largest in the world and he<br />
says the company is looking at<br />
doing 10-20MW PV solar which<br />
will be used to complement<br />
baseload.<br />
Off-grid was where PV got its start<br />
– with so many applications for<br />
stand-alone power, and continual<br />
new developments and cost<br />
reductions in energy storage<br />
technology, this sector of the<br />
market is growing like never<br />
before.<br />
Egbin Power Plant is the only steam<br />
power station in <strong>Nigeria</strong>. Electricity<br />
is generated through steam.
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Egbin<br />
Power<br />
Plant is at<br />
the<br />
Forefront<br />
of<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>’s<br />
Energy<br />
Revolution<br />
Oil and Gas Republic Media Tour at Egbin Power Plant –<br />
Largest Power Generating Station in <strong>Nigeria</strong><br />
Egbin hosted a media tour for <strong>Nigeria</strong>n<br />
journalists in order to provide valuable<br />
insight on the challenges and success<br />
stories recorded so far. <strong>The</strong> objective was<br />
to globally expose and showcase the<br />
capabilities the plant has possessed in<br />
power generation to the entire nation. Oil<br />
and Gas Republic Publication was among<br />
the media organization invited to do a<br />
media tour at the power plant, which has<br />
up to 6 Units fully functioning and<br />
generating power till date.<br />
Egbin Power Plant is located at Ikorodu, a<br />
city in north-east Lagos State, <strong>Nigeria</strong>. It is<br />
located along the Lagos Lagoon and<br />
shares a boundary with Ogun State.<br />
Ikorodu is the fastest growing and<br />
prosperous area near the Lagos<br />
metropolis, owing in part to the influx of<br />
people from Ikorodu’s surrounding towns<br />
and villages attracted by the town’s<br />
proximity to Lagos.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Plant is the largest power generating<br />
station in <strong>Nigeria</strong> and one of the largest in<br />
the West African sub-region with an<br />
installed capacity of 1,320 MW consisting<br />
of 6 Units of 220MW each. Not only by the<br />
integrity of its generating capacity, but<br />
also because of the quality of industry<br />
professionals working in the plant.<br />
As we all know, Egbin Power Plc was<br />
handed over to KEPCO Energy Resource<br />
Limited (KERL) in November 2013 by the<br />
Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) as part<br />
of the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n Federal Government<br />
power sector privatization program.<br />
Despite the wide-ranging challenges and<br />
increased operating costs, KERL has<br />
turned around the plant and operated the<br />
assets efficiently and satisfactorily,<br />
investing substantially in the plant since<br />
take over and to fully utilize its energy<br />
potentials.<br />
Liquidity (lack of funding):<br />
Given that the electric power sector is an<br />
unbroken interconnected chain of<br />
activities from generation to transmission<br />
to distribution to end users at homes,<br />
offices and industries, its alarming<br />
liquidity challenge certainly becomes one<br />
of the common issues in the sector.<br />
<strong>The</strong> lack of access to funding is a major<br />
issue to promoting investment in the<br />
sector. As we all know that every country<br />
has challenges and the power sector in<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> has its own challenges, and one of<br />
the challenges that we are currently facing<br />
is the issue of funding. <strong>The</strong> investment in<br />
the power sector requires huge amount of<br />
funds, noting that the non-availability of<br />
adequate fund constituted a hurdle to<br />
speedy development of the sector.<br />
To addressing these liquidity challenge, all<br />
players should call for more investment<br />
and stick to the specified rules and<br />
regulation governing the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n power<br />
sector.<br />
Inadequate Gas Supplies:<br />
Sabotage of gas pipelines has<br />
decommissioned power plants and their<br />
ability to provide adequate power supply.<br />
According to the Minister’s statement at<br />
the 12th Monthly Power Sector and<br />
Stakeholders Meeting in Ibadan, he said,<br />
sabotage of gas to power plants has also<br />
created debt problem, shortfall in power<br />
expectation, and therefore, shortfall in<br />
cash recovery.<br />
“And we see that they pay more when the<br />
power is more stable. “Now, the reason<br />
why I have gone through this is just to<br />
reiterate that all of us have an<br />
understanding of the problems and all of us<br />
have different roles to play in solving those<br />
problems,” he added.<br />
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But the visits by the Vice President of<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> to the Niger Delta region is a<br />
welcome development as the VP engages<br />
the communities and negotiating with the<br />
militants to stop the vandalism while the<br />
issues that agitate them can be treated and<br />
resolved soonest.<br />
Transmission Company Of <strong>Nigeria</strong><br />
(TCN):<br />
Transmission Company Of <strong>Nigeria</strong> (TCN)<br />
is in charge of transmission and balancing<br />
the system throughout the country. On a<br />
recent report at Egbin, the generating<br />
capacity of the plant is 1, 320 MW but it<br />
came down to 1,100 MW because at that<br />
time, TCN could not take the power<br />
because of the issues in their systems. In<br />
the control room at Egbin, you will see just<br />
2 units running simply because gas is not<br />
always available and TCN’s technical<br />
issues. <strong>The</strong>y have a system that is older<br />
than Egbin power plant.<br />
Breaching the gap and improving the<br />
management system, TCN should bring a<br />
lot of educated and experienced<br />
professionals that knows very much about<br />
transmission and distribution systems in<br />
and out. In doing this, there will be<br />
improvement in the system that has been<br />
declined over the past years.<br />
Obsolete Equipment:<br />
Obsolete equipment is among the key<br />
factors affecting the smooth operation of<br />
the company. Giving an update on the<br />
activities of the company, this is the first<br />
time since inception of the power plant that<br />
it will achieve the feat because of the<br />
continuing investment and upgrade<br />
activities on the plant by the new<br />
investors- Sahara Power Group and Korea<br />
Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO).<br />
Over the past years, the plant hit the<br />
1000mw mark for barely two hours<br />
and never attained it again until<br />
now; and that prior to the<br />
privatization and handover of the<br />
plant in November 2013, Egbin<br />
averaged generation of below<br />
500mw due to the dismal state of its<br />
six units which at its lowest point,<br />
only two of the six units were<br />
operational.<br />
Prior to the privatization of the plant<br />
in November 2013; most of the<br />
a u x i l i a r i e s l i k e t h e<br />
demineralization plant were not<br />
functional, spare parts necessary<br />
for plant operation and preventive<br />
maintenance were unavailable and<br />
that most of the equipment were<br />
obsolete. To continue enjoying and<br />
increasing the plant capacity, the<br />
equipment should be upgraded to<br />
latest technological solutions.<br />
Tariff:<br />
With a population surpassing 170<br />
million people, <strong>Nigeria</strong> targets an<br />
ambitious 20,000MW of electricity<br />
generation by the year 2020 and to<br />
rank among the top 20 economies in<br />
the world. Having the right pricing<br />
is an essential requirement for<br />
success. Balancing between a cost<br />
reflective tariff and an affordable<br />
tariff is one of the biggest<br />
challenges facing the <strong>Nigeria</strong><br />
Electricity Supply Industry (NESI).<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> Electricity Regulatory<br />
Commission (NERC), being the<br />
regulator for the industry has the<br />
mandate to approve tariffs. In an<br />
effort to make electricity tariffs<br />
more affordable, NERC should<br />
provide a cost reflective tariff for<br />
the operators based on prudent costs<br />
a n d c r e a t e a n e n a b l i n g<br />
environment, while at the same<br />
time protect the interest of<br />
electricity customers to ensure they<br />
get value for money
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Industry Players and Stakeholders in the Power Sector to Gather<br />
in Lagos for Power <strong>Nigeria</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
By Obineme Ndubuisi Micheal<br />
Informa Exhibitions is set to organize a 3-days<br />
conference and exhibition in Lagos on 5 – 7<br />
September, <strong>2017</strong> at Landmark Centre, Lagos.<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>’s leading power exhibition, Power <strong>Nigeria</strong>,<br />
is dedicated to the burgeoning <strong>Nigeria</strong>n power<br />
industry. Prior to this B2B trade event, the<br />
organizers of Power <strong>Nigeria</strong>, Informa Exhibitions,<br />
will gather a large number of leading power<br />
personalities and stakeholders to present plans for<br />
the future of the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n Power Sector.<br />
With Informa’s strong track record of organizing<br />
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event, Middle East Electricity), Power <strong>Nigeria</strong> is<br />
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and knowledge share within the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n power<br />
sector. <strong>The</strong> overwhelming sentiment that the<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>n power market has great potential but<br />
the sector requires major action. With President<br />
Muhammadu Buhari’s public commitment to invest<br />
heavily in the power sector, the Power <strong>Nigeria</strong><br />
exhibition and conference takes place at a critical<br />
time for contractors, consultants, distributors and<br />
traders to forge strong relationships with<br />
international and local suppliers.<br />
Power <strong>Nigeria</strong> exhibition and conference has<br />
become the platform where the who’s who of the<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>n power industry – from decision makers and<br />
industry leaders to experts and engineers – gather to<br />
collaborate towards a brighter future for the country.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>2017</strong> edition of Power <strong>Nigeria</strong> will be its brightest one yet, with over 200 exhibitors from 12 countries<br />
and a special country pavilion from the middle east featuring their companies. <strong>The</strong> exhibition will be held<br />
in conjunction with the three-day Power <strong>Nigeria</strong> Conference, which starts with the Government and<br />
DISCO states of address on day one, where delegates will get to hear from the Hon. Minister of Power,<br />
Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, NERC, and many others. <strong>The</strong> second day of the conference will<br />
focus on key finance issues of the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n power sector; with the gas to power workshops.
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SBM Offshore wins OTC ‘Spotlight on New Technology’ award<br />
for the innovative FPSO Turritella Turret Mooring System (TMS)<br />
This is the 6th ‘Spotlight on New Technology Award’ that SBM Offshore has received in seven years.<br />
disconnectable buoy, the reconnection<br />
system and the mooring line tensioning<br />
system. See editor’s note (1 & 2).<br />
Accepting the award, SBM Offshore’s<br />
Technology Director Andrew Newport<br />
commented “Designing a disconnectable<br />
mooring system for the world’s deepest<br />
floating production unit required<br />
innovation and development across a range<br />
of systems and technologies, whilst<br />
leveraging SBM Offshore’s long<br />
experience of turret mooring system<br />
design.”<br />
SBM Offshore has received the<br />
prestigious <strong>2017</strong> OTC Spotlight<br />
on New Technology award.<br />
SBM Offshore is at the forefront<br />
of technology development,<br />
helping the transformation of<br />
the offshore industry. <strong>The</strong> TMS<br />
for the FPSO Turritella is the<br />
latest example of how SBM<br />
Offshore engages early on with<br />
its clients to find innovative,<br />
safe and cost-effective<br />
solutions. <strong>The</strong> pioneering TMS<br />
for the FPSO Turritella<br />
represents a step change for the<br />
industry and cements SBM<br />
Offshore’s reputation as the<br />
leader in turret mooring<br />
systems, leveraging over 60<br />
years of experience.<br />
Pushing the boundaries of<br />
mooring technologies, the TMS<br />
for the FPSO Turritella has able<br />
Turret Mooring System.<br />
resulted in two new world records for FPSO<br />
Turritella as:<br />
Ÿ <strong>The</strong> world’s deepest floating oil and gas<br />
production system at 9,500ft (2,900m).<br />
Ÿ <strong>The</strong> first use of steel lazy wave risers on a<br />
disconnect<br />
To achieve these industry firsts, the project<br />
required four enabling technologies to be<br />
developed, qualified and incorporated into<br />
the TMS design, associated with the<br />
SBM Offshore USA President Stein<br />
Rasmussen added “We are proud to have<br />
played a part in helping our client safely<br />
and competitively pioneer a new frontier of<br />
deepwater oil and gas production. This is<br />
SBM Offshore’s first FPSO in the Gulf of<br />
Mexico, where we<br />
operate Turritella for our client. <strong>The</strong> future<br />
of deepwater developments depends on new<br />
technology and we are proud to play a key<br />
role with our clients in unlocking these new<br />
frontiers.”<br />
Schlumberger Drilling technologies recognized as innovative<br />
industry leaders at OTC <strong>2017</strong><br />
Two technologies from Schlumberger are<br />
named as <strong>2017</strong> OTC Spotlight on New<br />
Technology Award winners.<br />
Schlumberger Technologies are considered<br />
for the awards based on key criteria such as<br />
new and innovative, proven through full-scale<br />
application or successful prototype testing,<br />
broad interest for the industry, and significant<br />
impact that benefits beyond existing<br />
technologies.<br />
Ÿ Managed Pressure Drilling Integrated<br />
Solution<br />
<strong>The</strong> managed pressure drilling (MPD)<br />
integrated solution is the industry’s first<br />
complete, all-OEM, reservoir-to-flare-stack<br />
deepwater MPD system. When MPD design,<br />
engineering, manufacturing, system<br />
integration, well engineering, and onsite well<br />
delivery services are delivered from one<br />
platform and from a single supplier, operators<br />
minimize rig footprint while maximizing<br />
drilling efficiency and versatility. <strong>The</strong> MPD<br />
integrated solution provides a closed-loop<br />
circulation system in which pore pressure,<br />
formation fracture pressure, and bottomhole<br />
pressure can be balanced and managed at<br />
surface. Drilling fluid is supplemented by<br />
surface backpressure, which can be adjusted<br />
much faster in response to downhole conditions<br />
compared with changing mud weights<br />
conventionally.<br />
Ÿ OptiDrill Real-Time Drilling Intelligence<br />
Service<br />
<strong>The</strong> OptiDrill real-time drilling intelligence<br />
service mitigates drilling risk and improves<br />
performance by providing actionable<br />
information to continuously identify hazardous<br />
drilling dynamics events and trends and<br />
recommending safe operating parameters.<br />
By integrating a comprehensive set of drilling<br />
dynamics and mechanical information, the<br />
service offers early detection of ROP limiters and<br />
drilling hazards; drillers receive immediate<br />
guidance on how to mitigate severe downhole<br />
dynamics so that the BHA is protected and the bit<br />
run is extended.<br />
Through the combination of downhole automated algorithms, the<br />
operator can continuously identify hazardous drilling dynamics<br />
events and trends as well as real-time guidelines for immediate action<br />
while drilling.<br />
<strong>The</strong> annual Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Spotlight on<br />
New Technology Awards recognizes innovative technologies and<br />
showcases the latest and most advanced technologies that are leading<br />
the industry forward in offshore exploration and production.
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<strong>Nigeria</strong>: FEC Approves Energy Recovery Program to Mitigate<br />
Issues on Gas, Transmission, Metering and Load Reductions<br />
<strong>The</strong> Federal Executive<br />
Council of <strong>Nigeria</strong> (FEC) has<br />
approved an energy recovery<br />
program to resolve issues on<br />
gas, transmission, metering,<br />
load reduction, contract<br />
enforcement, customer’s<br />
s e r v i c e a n d c o n s u m e r<br />
protection among others.<br />
<strong>The</strong> announcement was made<br />
known by Hon. Minister of<br />
Power, Works and Housing,<br />
Babatunde Fashola at the 14th<br />
Monthly Power Sector<br />
Operators Meeting hosted by<br />
the Transmission Company of<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong> (TCN) in Osogbo,<br />
Osun State.<br />
T h e M i n i s t e r s a i d ,<br />
Government is determined to<br />
enforce policies on the sector<br />
not to the operators only but<br />
including to its own self.<br />
Government is not above the<br />
low.<br />
By Ayobami Adedinni<br />
Transmission Company of <strong>Nigeria</strong> commissions Two Newly Installed 66MVA<br />
132/33KN Power Transformers<br />
<strong>The</strong> Transmission Company of <strong>Nigeria</strong><br />
(TCN) has successfully completed the<br />
installation and commissioning into<br />
service of two66MVA 132/33kV power<br />
transformers in its Katampe and Alagbon<br />
Transmission stations in Abuja and Lagos<br />
respectively.<br />
TCN in a statement signed by the Assistant<br />
General Manager (Public Affairs), TCN,<br />
Ndidi Mbah, said that the 132kV voltage<br />
level section of the Katampe Sub-station<br />
which operates with2x 60MVA capacity<br />
transformers, has in the past six weeks<br />
been functioning with only one 60MVA<br />
132/33kV power transformer because the<br />
second one developed an internal fault that<br />
necessitated its replacement. This resulted<br />
in load shedding in areas like Gwarimpa,<br />
Jabi, Lifecamp, Maitama and Wuse 2, from<br />
1st March to 10th April, <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
With the successful installation and<br />
energizing of a 66MVA 132/33kV power<br />
transformer at Katampe by TCN<br />
engineers,on Tuesday, 11th of April <strong>2017</strong>,<br />
the bulk load wheeling capacity of the<br />
transmission sub-station at 132kV voltage<br />
level increased from 120MVA to 126MVA.<br />
This means that the substation now has the<br />
capability to wheel power at full capacity<br />
to distribution load centers.<br />
Also, with the installation and commissioning of a 66MVA 132/33kV power transformer in Alagbon<br />
Transmission station, Ikoyi, last week, the station now has a total of 3x60MVA and 2x66MVA power<br />
transformers, bringing the total capacity of the substation to 312MVA on 132kV voltage level. Consequently<br />
there has been improved power supply to Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Dolfin Estate and Marina in Lagos State.<br />
TCN reiterated its resolve to continue to further expand its grid capacity, to ensure that it continues to<br />
efficiently move bulk electricity from generating companies to distribution companies nationwide.
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FG Approves Payment Plan to Address<br />
Liquidity Challenges in the Power Sector<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>’s Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has<br />
announced that the Federal Government have taken action to approve a<br />
payment assurance plan to address the liquidity challenges in the <strong>Nigeria</strong><br />
Power Sector. <strong>The</strong> announcement was made at the 14th Monthly Power<br />
Sector Operator’s Meeting hosted by Transmission Company of <strong>Nigeria</strong><br />
which was presided by the Hon. Minister of Power, Works and Housing.<br />
Speaking at the event, the Minister said, Government is very committed<br />
to tackle the enormous challenges in the sector. <strong>The</strong> Government is now<br />
stepping up brilliantly to its responsibility by confronting the challenges<br />
and in achieving this, it has reconstituted the regulatory commission to<br />
perform their duties to its maximum capabilities.<br />
AllOn investment packages supports energy enterprises in <strong>Nigeria</strong><br />
All On is contributing to building <strong>Nigeria</strong>’s market for off-grid<br />
renewable energy solutions, and partnerships are at the core of its<br />
approach. Its dynamic approach combines investment, technical<br />
support and market development activities to unlock access to energy in<br />
<strong>Nigeria</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> organization stimulate the development of collaborative<br />
partnerships for innovative solutions that facilitate increased access to<br />
affordable, reliable and sustainable energy<br />
sources in <strong>Nigeria</strong>.<br />
All On aims to drive long-lasting impact through supporting the<br />
development and growth of commercially viable energy solutions. <strong>The</strong><br />
objective is to de-risk the sector and demonstrate its viability by<br />
providing risk capital and business development support to develop,<br />
prove and scale successful business models.<br />
Scatec <strong>Solar</strong> and partners signs 25-year PPA for 400 MW in Egypt<br />
launched by the Egyptian Government in 2015. <strong>The</strong> electricity<br />
produced from the 400 MW is expected to replace about 350,000 tons<br />
of CO2 emissions per year, supporting Egypt’s emission reduction<br />
targets under the Paris Climate Agreement.<br />
“With this programme the Government of Egypt is making important<br />
steps towards accessing clean and low cost electricity to drive<br />
development and economic prosperity. Scatec <strong>Solar</strong> and partners are<br />
making significant investments and long term commitment to Egypt”<br />
said Raymond Carlsen, CEO of Scatec <strong>Solar</strong>.<br />
Scatec <strong>Solar</strong> and partners have signed 25-year Power Purchase<br />
Agreements for delivery of electricity from six solar plants totaling<br />
400 MW (DC) with the Government of Egypt. <strong>The</strong> signing ceremony<br />
took place in Cairo on April 13 in the presence of Egyptian Minister of<br />
Electricity and Renewable Energy Dr. Mohamed Shaker El-Markabi<br />
and the Ambassador of Norway Mr. Sten Arne Rosnes.<br />
All located in Ben Ban area near Aswan in Upper Egypt, the solar<br />
plants are expected to generate about 870 GWh of solar electricity per<br />
year. <strong>The</strong>se projects are part of the 2 GW solar FiT programme<br />
Total investments for the 400 MW of solar plants is estimated to USD<br />
450 million and the plants are expected to generate annual revenues of<br />
about USD 60 million over the 25-year contract period. Scatec <strong>Solar</strong><br />
will build, own and operate all six projects and Scatec <strong>Solar</strong>’s share of<br />
equity investments will be in the range of USD 50-70 million. Scatec<br />
<strong>Solar</strong> is partnering with local developers and with KLP Norfund<br />
Investments for equity investments in the projects and may add<br />
additional partners to an equity consortium before financial close.<br />
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is<br />
leading a consortium of banks that is expected to support the six<br />
projects with a total debt of up to USD 350 million.<br />
Scatec <strong>Solar</strong> is a leading developer and owner of large-scale solar<br />
plants in Africa, Europe, Middle East and Americas. With the latest<br />
addition, Scatec <strong>Solar</strong>’s project backlog consists of 1,131 MW.
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Nuclear Power Plant<br />
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Sub-Sahara Africa: Stakeholders Call for Quick Regulatory Approval<br />
as Key to E&P Sustainability in the Oil and Gas Industry<br />
Oil and Gas Stakeholders in Africa’s<br />
sub Saharan region have called for<br />
quick regulatory approval as solution<br />
to enhancing the Exploration and<br />
Production potentials in the region.<br />
Speaking at the Sub Sahara Africa<br />
Upstream Oil and Gas Summit and<br />
Exhibition, last week, they identified<br />
delay in regulatory approval and<br />
limited infrastructural growth and<br />
development as hindrances to the<br />
prospects in deepwater exploration.<br />
In his presentation, Managing<br />
Director, Shell <strong>Nigeria</strong> Exploration<br />
and Production Company (SNEPCo),<br />
Bayo Ojulari who was represented by<br />
General Manager, Deepwater<br />
Exploration, Engineer Gbenga<br />
Adewuyi, said there is modern day<br />
preference for gas and the available<br />
new grounds are in the offshore.<br />
He said, “<strong>The</strong>re are delays in<br />
regulatory approval from when you<br />
find oil till when you eventually get<br />
approval. You spend an average of 12<br />
years compared to that of Australia<br />
which is 3 to 7 years. <strong>The</strong>re is<br />
limited infrastructural growth and<br />
development where we need to<br />
influence the policy makers on how to<br />
address the issue of logistics,” he said.<br />
According to him, the issue of<br />
insecurity has led to cost escalation<br />
implication, high risk projects and<br />
high capacity exposure. He said, “This<br />
requires a diverse and comprehensive<br />
skill set among the various economic<br />
blocs across sub Saharan Africa. How<br />
much do we allow the flow among the<br />
different trade blocs if we want our<br />
investments to be sustainable?<br />
“We don’t have a standardized fiscal<br />
policy in sub Saharan Africa. We have<br />
ECOWAS, East African Community,<br />
and Southern African Development<br />
Community, (SADC) but there is no<br />
harmony. Our strength lies in<br />
understanding our environment. We<br />
need world wide access to skilled<br />
workforce.<br />
“We contribute less than 10 per cent of<br />
the world’s needs whereas we have the<br />
potentials for 3 times more. From<br />
2005 to 2014, exploration activities<br />
show that we are actively looking for<br />
these resources,” he added.<br />
On his part, Chairman, Petroleum<br />
Institute of East Africa and Managing<br />
Director, GalanaOil, Powell Maimba<br />
said local content has to be looked at<br />
on the basis of competence rather than<br />
to score political gains. He said,<br />
“When people are looking for oil, they<br />
have no idea what will come up out of<br />
it. It is not about the big machines but<br />
how far you can do to explore the<br />
opportunities that the oil and gas<br />
provides. <strong>The</strong> role of the politician is<br />
not to determine economic activity.<br />
“We should not frustrate mega<br />
projects because of local content.<br />
Local content has to be looked at on<br />
the basis of competence. Thus , it has<br />
to be redefined,” he added.
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Rolls-Royce collaboration with MacGregor to investigate the<br />
impact on ‘Autonomy for Container Ships’<br />
Rolls-Royce, a pre-eminent<br />
engineering company focused<br />
on world-class power and<br />
propulsion systems with<br />
customer base in over 150<br />
countries has move towards a<br />
future with autonomous<br />
shipping as it currently<br />
collaborating with leading<br />
provider of services for<br />
container ships, MacGregor,<br />
to investigate its impact on<br />
cargo shipping. Building on<br />
our existing expertise, we’re<br />
working to make the industry<br />
as safe and efficient as<br />
possible.<br />
MacGregor is a leading<br />
provider of cargo handling<br />
solutions and services for<br />
container ships. <strong>The</strong>ir detailed<br />
knowledge of the cargo sector<br />
will provide valuable insights<br />
into marine cargo operations<br />
and the technology and<br />
systems needed to make them<br />
as efficient and safe as<br />
possible. Our collaboration<br />
will harness both companies’<br />
unique experience laying the<br />
g r o u n d w o r k f o r t h e<br />
development of autonomous<br />
container ships.<br />
Pasi Lehtonen, Senior Vice<br />
President, Strategy, Business<br />
Development and Marketing,<br />
MacGregor said; “We want to<br />
reshape and transform the<br />
industry to make it much more<br />
efficient, safer and more<br />
sustainable. In the segments<br />
where we operate, we see a lot<br />
of unnecessary waste in the<br />
forms of inefficiency, damage<br />
to cargo, and continuously dangerous working conditions. Our aim is to minimise<br />
this waste. Collaboration on autonomy for container ships is a good example of where<br />
industry leaders work together to transform the industry.”<br />
Asbjørn Skaro, Rolls-Royce, Director Digital and Systems, said: “Rolls-Royce is<br />
pioneering remotely controlled and autonomous ships and believes such a remote<br />
controlled ship will be in commercial use by the end of the decade and a common sight<br />
on the high seas by 2030. For the full benefits of such a change to be realised many<br />
activities currently done today manually will need to be done autonomously. This<br />
research will help us explore how that might be achieved.”<br />
CELLO unveils world’s first solar TV in the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n market<br />
UK based company, Cello Electronics has launched the world’s<br />
first solar TV in the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n market. <strong>The</strong> product was launched in<br />
Lagos at the <strong>Solar</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Nigeria</strong> <strong>2017</strong>, <strong>Nigeria</strong>’s first solar PV<br />
conference, organized by <strong>Solar</strong>Plaza. Speaking with Oil and Gas<br />
Republic correspondent, David Faint the company’s representative<br />
said the solar TV has multiple functions and can be used to charge<br />
batteries for a variety of uses. This TV can be operated in remote<br />
regions of the world where there is no electricity or aerial<br />
installation. It’s an all-in-one package that includes the LED TV,<br />
portable solar panel and TV aerial in one box. It comes with 2 lamps<br />
with independent switches with 6m long cables.<br />
“We are new to the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n market and we are currently looking<br />
for local partners here in <strong>Nigeria</strong> that will help us distribute these<br />
products across the entire nation. <strong>The</strong> partner has to be a well<br />
established company with experience in solar products and<br />
electricity products and also have the financial capability to buy the<br />
products in stock, David Faint said”<br />
Speaking further, he said, Cello solar TV will reduce the cost of<br />
buying fuels in <strong>Nigeria</strong> and making the environment more greener.<br />
“In UK everybody wants a TV to use it in watching sports such as<br />
footballs, movies and in <strong>Nigeria</strong> the same thing applies”
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promises to be the most sought after<br />
meeting point for Asia’s stake<br />
holders to discuss, debate and<br />
embrace future energy scenarios<br />
and solutions concerning long-term<br />
global energy policies.”<br />
Thailand is clearly a growing<br />
market with huge opportunities,<br />
and ‘<strong>Future</strong> Energy Asia 2018’<br />
presents the first opportunity for<br />
local, regional and international<br />
energy companies across the full<br />
value chain of this promising sector<br />
to come together and create a<br />
blueprint for the future energy<br />
security of Asia. This inaugural<br />
Show will provide an opportunity<br />
for global buyers and sellers to<br />
display their products and services<br />
on the exhibition floor, and to<br />
establish alliances and partnerships.<br />
<strong>The</strong> conference represents an<br />
unparalleled opportunity for the<br />
global energy industry to explore<br />
the opportunities and challenges of<br />
the exciting Asian market” he said.<br />
Thailand gears up to be ‘<strong>The</strong> Energy Hub For Asia’ with<br />
Ministry of Energy setting the stage for it next December<br />
Mr. AreepongBhoocha-Oom, Permanent<br />
Secretary of the Ministry of Energy of<br />
Thailand has launched the ‘<strong>Future</strong> Energy<br />
Asia Exhibition & Conference’ as a major<br />
initiative towards securing the path to<br />
Thailand’s Energy 4.0. <strong>The</strong> transformation<br />
and development of Thailand is a major<br />
priority for the government which creates<br />
incredible business opportunities for both<br />
integrated and non-integrated energy<br />
companies globally. As such, ‘<strong>Future</strong><br />
Energy Asia Exhibition & Conference’ is<br />
the perfect platform for NOCs and IOCs to<br />
foster the transition from traditional fuel<br />
suppliers to integrated energy providers<br />
for a more efficient and sustainable energy<br />
mix across Asia.<br />
Globally energy demand will increase by<br />
around 30% to 2030, driven by increasing<br />
prosperity in developing countries and by<br />
fast growing emerging markets. <strong>The</strong><br />
energy mix is changing driven by<br />
technology and environment concerns.<br />
<strong>The</strong> primary demand will still be Oil and<br />
Gas but industry is adapting and changing<br />
and is seeing these traditional fossil fuels<br />
provide the transition to the evolution that<br />
is underway Natural Gas and LNG will be<br />
the primary fuel source for Asia’s<br />
continued development<br />
<strong>Future</strong> Energy Asia under support of the<br />
Thailand Ministry of Energy promises to<br />
be the largest energy industry gathering<br />
Asia has ever seen. Focusing on oil, gas<br />
and renewables, the event is set forth to<br />
outline the perfect scenarios of mixed<br />
fuels and technologies needed to meet<br />
growing energy demand, improve<br />
efficiency and support the transition to a<br />
lower-carbon economy. It will be held<br />
from 12-14 December 2018 at BITEC,<br />
Thailand with 15,000+ visitors, 2,500+<br />
delegates, 300 speakers and over 600<br />
exhibiting companies. His Excellency<br />
Permanent Secretary announced the<br />
launch to a gathering of dignitaries,<br />
officials, energy sector leaders and<br />
prominent media together with<br />
international organiserdmg events and<br />
expert event co-organisers, Exposis from<br />
Thailand.<br />
Dr. AreepongBhoocha-Oom said<br />
“Thailand 4.0 means opportunity and the<br />
transformation in the energy sector of the<br />
country as well. As we move more closely<br />
towards an improved energy system,<br />
energy production and consumption must<br />
adapt radically to ensure the demands of<br />
growing populations are met, whilst<br />
ensuring cleaner and more efficient<br />
delivery is achieved. While renewable and<br />
other carbon-free energy will play a<br />
primary role, the importance of fossil<br />
fuels, in sustainable energy future for<br />
Asia” particular natural gas, in delivering<br />
the cost-effective and immediate<br />
requirements of Asia’s growing demand<br />
cannot be ignored. Fossil fuel & renewable<br />
energy can certainly form the core<br />
elements of a transition to a cleaner &<br />
more<br />
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He affirmed that holding <strong>Future</strong> Energy<br />
Asia exhibition and conference in<br />
Thailand reflects Thailand’s continuous<br />
efforts to promote new projects, attract<br />
investments in the energy sector, and<br />
consolidate communication with foreign<br />
investors and large international<br />
corporations, which are foremost on the<br />
investment opportunities map. <strong>The</strong> event<br />
will act as a collaborative effort to<br />
publicise Thailand’s new policies and<br />
readiness as an investment hub and<br />
showcase Thailand’s potential to become<br />
the sustainable energy hub for Asia, as it<br />
transitions to Thailand 4.0.<br />
He added “We are delighted to host <strong>Future</strong><br />
Energy Asia 2018 and look forward to the<br />
interactions with its delegates for the<br />
continued improvement of the global<br />
energy sector. <strong>The</strong> decisions and<br />
relationships built will foster a<br />
collaborative and economically viable<br />
energy future.”<br />
From his part, Mr. Christopher Hudson,<br />
President of DMG Events Global Energy,<br />
the company responsible for organising<br />
the ‘<strong>Future</strong> Energy Asia’ presented the<br />
plans for the event. He explained that “<strong>The</strong><br />
3-day exhibition and conference is<br />
dedicated to advancing future energy,<br />
energy efficiency and clean technology.<br />
Going by the overwhelming response<br />
from the global events dmgorganises such<br />
as ADIPEC and Gastech, the event<br />
Along with the conference and<br />
exhibition, the event will host<br />
strategic Ministerial meetings, an<br />
‘awards ceremony and fund’ that<br />
will support research and<br />
development in energy and social<br />
programs on all the days to facilitate<br />
networking with peers, business<br />
partners and key stake-holders in<br />
the energy sector.<br />
Commenting further on the<br />
conference element of the show,<br />
M r. H u d s o n a d d e d “ T h e<br />
Conference will not only address<br />
the technical aspects of gas, oil and<br />
renewables, but also host<br />
discussions addressing the<br />
challenges facing the industry to<br />
include both business and political<br />
issues. Some of the key topics<br />
include ‘delivering power to grids’,<br />
developing efficient and smart<br />
electricity distribution and<br />
transmission networks, lighting up<br />
Asia’s cities: next-generation<br />
power generation strategies and<br />
technology and ‘creating a<br />
blueprint for a harmonious fuel<br />
mix: maximising the use and<br />
efficiency of fossil fuels in<br />
conjunction with carbon-free<br />
energy’”.<br />
“We are extremely grateful for the<br />
support and understanding we have<br />
received from the Ministry of<br />
Energy of Thailand in ensuring the<br />
inaugural <strong>Future</strong> Energy Asia 2018<br />
is a success. Having the Minister<br />
himself as Event Chairman<br />
underlines Thailand’s commitment<br />
to bringing energy security to all..”<br />
concluded Mr. Hudson.<br />
<strong>Future</strong> Energy Asia is also<br />
supported by Thailand Convention<br />
& Exhibition Bureau (TCEB).<br />
“ T C E B , a s a g o v e r n m e n t<br />
o rg a n i z a t i o n d e d i c a t e d t o<br />
developing Thailand’s MICE<br />
industry, is pleased to support<br />
<strong>Future</strong> Energy Asia 2018.