Ethiopia cancelled $4billion Ogaden Gas export pipeline construction Via Djibouti, they will use Berbera instead -

[KingWaslawi]

Ethiopia canceled the plan it made to construct a fuel pipeline that stretches to its neighboring country, Djibouti. The pipeline was planned to be constructed by Black Rhino Group, South African based infrastructure investment group.

It was back 2014 that Black Rhino, proposed to the Ethiopian government to construct a 550 kilometers long pipeline to transport diesel, gasoline and jet fuel from the Port of Djibouti to central Ethiopia. The project was estimated to cost 1.55 billion USD and the government had reviewed as well as accepted the proposal in principle.

The US investment group Black Stone backed Black Rhino and the latter undertook a feasibility study on the project. Following this, Djibouti and Ethiopia signed a framework agreement on the planned pipeline construction back in 2015.

Ethiopia’s fuel import has been in the rise at a 10 percent rate. It has now reached 3.8 million metric tons. it currently uses tanker trucks to transport the fuel from the Port of Djibouti to central Ethiopia, which is very costly. Fuel theft, adulteration and waste are also other challenges with the road transport.

The fuel pipeline project included an import facility and 950,000 barrels of storage capacity in Damerjog, Djibouti, linked to a storage terminal in Awash, Ethiopia.
According to Black Rhino, the 20-inch (51-centimeter) line would have been capable of transporting 240,000 barrels of fuel daily.

Source: The Reporter

[KingWaslawi]

This was November 2017

China Poly Sees Ethiopia Gas Exports by 2019, Minister Says
Fri, Nov 03, 2017 Walta News

China Poly Group plans to start exporting natural gas from Ethiopia’s eastern Ogaden basin by mid-2019 as it continues to explore near the border with Somalia, Petroleum Minister Motuma Mekassa said.

Shipments from the Calub and Hilala fields will be exported along a 700-kilometer (435-mile) pipeline to a port complex being built in neighboring Djibouti, Motuma said in an interview in the capital, Addis Ababa.

“They want to export the gas to Asia,” Motuma said.

Ethiopia is developing gas finds to diversify its $72.3 billion economy, the fastest-growing in Africa over the past decade. The Horn of Africa nation plans to increase natural resources’ contribution to gross domestic product to 10 percent from 1.5 percent by 2025, when it expects to become a middle-income country with gross national income per capita of $1,045 to $12,736.

POLY-GCL Petroleum Group, a partnership between China Poly and closely held Hong Kong-based Golden Concord Group, signed five production-sharing agreements with Ethiopia’s Mines Ministry in 2013 to explore a 117,151 square-kilometer area in the Ogaden basin, according to Motuma.

The project is being financed by the China Development Bank, according to Motuma, who declined to provide a cost estimate, citing continuing work by POLY-GCL and its sub-contractors. At least 4.5 trillion cubic feet of gas has so far been discovered in the fields, he said, citing an analysis by POLY-GCL.

Troops Deployed

Ethiopian soldiers are providing security around the five blocks owned by POLY-GCL, Motuma said. In April 2007, an Ethiopian rebel group, the Ogaden National Liberation Front, attacked a site operated by China’s Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau, killing nine Chinese workers and 65 Ethiopians.

A tripartite agreement on the pipeline is expected to be signed by representatives of Djibouti, Ethiopia and POLY-GCL “in the coming weeks,” Djibouti Ports & Free Zones Authority Chairman Aboubaker Omar Hadi said by phone from Tokyo.

POLY-GCL’s first exports of 3 million cubic meters of LNG per year are planned to start within 30 months when the new port in Djibouti is expected to be operational, he said. The shipments are expected to increase to 6 million cubic meters in the port’s second year of operations, Hadi said. The port will include a gas liquefaction plant.

Financing Secured

Djibouti has secured $4 billion in finance “from different sources” that will enable work on the project to start in Damerjog, north of the country’s border with Somalia, he said.

Jacqueline Chang, assistant to the general manager of POLY-GCL’s Ethiopia branch, didn’t respond to two emailed requests for comment for the company.

SouthWest Energy Ltd. of Ethiopia, Vancouver-based Africa Oil Corp., and GBP Global Resources, a unit of Russia’s state-owned Gazprombank Group, are all exploring for oil and gas in Ethiopia, with feasibility studies underway in some areas, according to Motuma. He didn’t provide details. Spokesmen for the three companies didn’t respond to emails seeking comment.

Gas reserves were first discovered in the Ogaden basin in 1972 by a U.S. company, Tenneco, which was expelled from the country five years later by a Marxist military junta known as the Derg, according to the government. Soviet Petroleum Exploration and Expedition began exploring the reserves after Tenneco’s expulsion, before its contract was terminated in 1994, after the Derg was toppled by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, which has remained in power since then.

The government wants to increase foreign-exchange earnings from sales of minerals, oil and gas to $2 billion a year by 2020 from $344 million in 2015.

[X.Playa]

how both articales are relevant to SL?

[KingWaslawi]

how both articales are relevant to SL?

Itoobiya waxay kaga baxday Jabuuti, heshis ahaa in Itoobiya dhisto dhuumaha gaasta qaadaya ee gaadhsiinaya Dekadda Jabuutiz taasoo ku kacaysay adduun dhan, $1.5billion oo Dollar.

Laakiin Itoobiya way baxday heshiiskaas, taasoo macnaheedu tahay wada hadalka dhinacyada badan leh iyo addeegsiga sekadda Berbera, waxaana heshiiskan ku wada socda dawladda iyo Somaliland iyo shirkadda DP wprld ee maal gelinaysa dekadda Berbera.


Jabuuti haku taagnaato.

[Jabuutawi]

Old news. No where in the article does it say they are moving to a different location with the pipeline.