Left to right: WSP’s Mike Theobald, Portland Advisers’ Ian Cogswell, Standard Chartered’s Anthonia Okoh and Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Jim Simpson
Africa remains a challenge for LNG to power
Developers have shown strong interest in the region, but the sector has yet to take off, panellists said at Petroleum Economist’s LNG to Power Forum EMEA
“There is a strong interest across the industry in making LNG-to-power work in sub-Saharan Africa. But nobody has yet created a structure that works,” Jim Simpson, partner at law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth, told Petroleum Economist’s LNG to Power Forum EMEA in London in October. “There is a clear need and appetite for gas-fired power in Africa, [but developments face a] “number of challenges,” he added. "Africa is an enormous continent,” emphasised Ian Cogswell, senior advisor at London-based Portland Advisers, with "huge differences” between nations, so developers need to “look at individual countries, that will help”. Other panellists thought the same, with Anthonia Okoh, executive director
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