Contractors working on maintenance at Sizewell B had to self-isolate – Credit: SARAH LUCY BROWN A number of contractors working on a major maintenance project at Sizewell B have been forced to self-isolate after coming into contact with a person who tested positive for Covid-19. EDF said the contractors had tested negative before starting work at the nuclear power station […]
By Tsvetana Paraskova – Dec 03, 2020, 10:30 AM CST Days after reports emerged that the newly opened Belarus nuclear power plant suffered an incident, authorities in neighboring Lithuania told the Baltic country’s population on Thursday to stock up on food in case of an incident at the nuclear power facility in Belarus, which is just 30 […]
By Adri Senekal de Wet CAPE TOWN – The first of six new steam generators is being delivered to Koeberg nuclear power station as part of a major life extension systems upgrade. This project has been underway for some years and began after Eskom nuclear specialists decided to undertake a system upgrade to ensure that […]
By Paul Burkhardt July 2, 2020, 10:05 AM GMT+2 Updated on July 2, 2020, 4:08 PM GMT+2 A unit of Glencore Plc said two people died in an explosion and a fire at its oil refinery in Cape Town. Seven others were injured in the incident that occurred at 4 a.m. on Thursday and two of them remain hospitalized, […]
BY: TASNEEM BULBULIA CREAMER MEDIA REPORTER JSE-listed Oando attended as a consortium partner at the flag-off ceremony for the construction of the $2.8-billion, 40-inch and 614 km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (KKK) gas pipeline project, in Nigeria, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on June 30. The AKK pipeline project, championed by two consortia comprising select indigenous and international companies, started […]
BY: TERENCE CREAMER CREAMER MEDIA EDITOR Chemicals and energy group Sasol confirmed on July 1 that the sale of its equity interest in the Republic of Mozambique Pipeline Investment Company (Rompco) and the Central Termica de Ressano Garcia gas-fired power plant, also in Mozambique, were well advanced, along with partnering discussions for its base chemicals assets, […]
