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08/13/2026

The Dangote Group is now working towards a late 2026 start of construction for a significant grassroots refinery in Lamu, Kenya. The company settled on Lamu after considering other locations that included Mombasa in Kenya and Tanga, Tanzania.

October 2026 is the target date for the groundbreaking of what will be a 700,000 bpd facility to be known as the East African Refinery. Dangote is anticipating that this project will be built in less than four years with a cost of approximately 16 billion USD, less than the similarly sized $20 billion USD Dangote refinery in Nigeria completed in 2024. Dangote President and CEO Aliko Dangote has stated that the lessons the company learned from the development of that refinery has helped streamline the costs for this new facility.

Once built, the East African Refinery would be the largest refinery in East Africa and would supply its refined petroleum products to Kenya and to neighboring markets like Uganda, Tanzania and South Sudan as a means of reducing the continent’s long-term reliance on imported refined products.

08/11/2026

The moments that define an industry deserve to be documented with the same precision that created them.

We are proud to welcome Expro as the Photography Partner of the 2026 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards®.

On October 15, Expro will capture the evening as it unfolds: the recognition, the conversations, and the faces of the engineers, operators, and executives whose work is shaping the future of global energy. Those images will live far beyond the gala itself, in press releases, LinkedIn announcements, editorial coverage, and the historical record of a consequential year in this industry.

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08/11/2026

Spain commits EUR 274 million to four renewable hydrogen projects - rescuing facilities that Brussels couldn't fund.

On 6 August 2026, Spain's Ministry for Ecological Transition (MITECO) awarded EUR 274.2 million to four green hydrogen projects across Galicia, Castilla-La Mancha, and Aragón — all funded through NextGenerationEU money via Spain's Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR).

The four beneficiary projects are:

Project Atlas (Proyecto ATLAS) - Repsol Renewable and Circular Solutions, Arteixo, A Coruña | 50 MW | EUR 133.39 million
QUIXOTGEN - Doña Urraca Energy, Villarrobledo, Albacete | 30 MW | EUR 50.22 million
P-HYNET (Puertollano Hydrogen Network) - Repsol Renewable and Circular Solutions, Puertollano, Ciudad Real | 12.27 MW | EUR 49.79 million
ZARAGOZAH2V - AccionaPlug, Zaragoza | 10 MW | EUR 40.90 million

Together the four projects sum to 102.27 MW of electrolyser capacity, targeting industrial decarbonisation across four Spanish provinces. All four had been pre-selected in the third general auction of the European Hydrogen Bank (EHB IF25) but fell off the EU funding list when the available Community budget was exhausted. Spain's IDAE stepped in with the second national Auctions-as-a-Service (AaaS) round to rescue them at national level.

These projects and hundreds more across the global hydrogen value chain are available to review on the Global Energy Infrastructure platform.

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Source: MITECO Press Release, August 2026

08/06/2026

A $4 billion USD grassroots refinery in Uganda is now expected to receive a final investment decision in February 2027, according to recent remarks by the Petroleum Authority of Uganda. Once this decision is made, it could trigger movement for this long-anticipated project.

Steps towards development have been building since March of last year when Uganda signed a memorandum of understanding with Alpha MBM Investments of the UAE, with Alpha MBM eventually taking 60% in the facility, with the Government of Uganda holding the remaining 40%. This new refinery will have a 60,000 bpd capacity and will be placed in the Kabaale sub-county, Hoima District, within the Kabalega Industrial Park (KIP) and is expected to be a key piece of Uganda’s plans for a growing hydrocarbons industry designed to reduce the country’s heavy reliance on imported refined petroleum products.

07/31/2026

The functional successor to Keystone XL is taking shape — and two milestones in as many months signal serious momentum.

On 30 April 2026, President Trump signed a presidential permit authorising the Bridger Pipeline Expansion, clearing the primary federal regulatory hurdle for a 36-inch crude oil pipeline running approximately 650 miles from Phillips County, Montana to Guernsey, Wyoming. Operated by Bridger Pipeline LLC (True Companies), the line is engineered to carry 550,000 barrels per day of Western Canadian heavy crude to existing U.S. infrastructure.

One month later, on 29 May 2026, South Bow Corp. announced a successful open season for its proposed Prairie Connector — the Canadian upstream link to the Bridger system. The open season, which closed 30 March 2026, secured 20-year binding commitments for firm transportation service from Hardisty, Alberta to U.S. delivery points. If sanctioned, the Prairie Connector would construct approximately 230 miles of new 36-inch pipeline and reinstate around 94 miles of previously installed preserved pipe and two pump stations, connecting Hardisty to the Canada-U.S. border.

Taken together, these two projects would form an integrated corridor stretching from the Alberta oil sands to Wyoming — delivering Western Canadian crude to U.S. refining markets in Illinois, Oklahoma, and the Gulf Coast at a scale not seen since Keystone XL was cancelled.

As markets have time to consider these two projects, do you think the pipeline corridor will reach FID and construction, or will it face the same fate as Keystone XL?

▢ It will be built — the commercial and political conditions are now aligned
▢ Permitting and financing risk will delay or derail it
▢ It gets built, but later than the current timeline suggests
▢ Too early to call

Drop your view in the comments — particularly if you are working in pipeline development, crude markets, or Canadian energy policy.

GEI's Global Energy Infrastructure platform tracks this project and hundreds of others across the full development lifecycle.

07/30/2026

XCF Global has announced that it has entered into a Joint Commercialization and Development Agreement with Continual Renewable Ventures Pty Ltd (CRV) and New Rise Australia Pty Ltd as the project entity for a proposed renewable fuels platform in Australia named New Rise ANZ Project 1. Under the agreement, XCF Global is to provide technical, development and project support for the project and in exchange for these services, the company may earn up to a 10% equity interest in New Rise Australia Pty Ltd, dependent upon agreed development milestones and an FID, while CRV is expected to maintain majority ownership and control of the project entity.

This proposed facility is being designed to have a production capacity of 46 MMgpy of SAF and renewable diesel (HVO) as a HEFA based site. Cost figures nor a timeline has been announced at this writing, but a location for the plant could be imminent as CRV founder and managing director Renzo Petersen has stated that Kwinana was “an excellent location” for the New Rise ANZ Project 1. This facility is being intended to support SAF and renewable diesel development in the country and the partners hope to expand to New Zealand and in other Asia-Pacific markets.

07/30/2026

The 2026 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards® finalists have been announced.

After a rigorous judging process, companies and individuals from across the globe have earned their place on this year's finalist list. Representing upstream, midstream, and downstream operations across more than 40 categories, this year's group reflects the full breadth of what is advancing the global energy industry.

Among those recognized: SLB, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Saudi Aramco, ADNOC, NOV, Expro, Reliance Industries Limited, Lummus Technology, Aramco Americas, Kuwait Oil Company, and many more.

The winners will be revealed at the black-tie gala on October 15, 2026, at The Post Oak Hotel in Houston.

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07/15/2026

Topsoe and Sasol have signed an agreement with Allied Biofuels involving licensing and engineering for an upcoming SAF and eSAF project in the Khorazm region of Uzbekistan. Under this agreement, both Topsoe and Sasol will provide the core technology license, engineering design package and technical services for the eventual eSAF production, and Topsoe will combine its SynCOR™ technology with Sasol’s Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology for production of SAF from a versatile feedstock base that is expected to include biomass material as well as green hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

Allied Biofuels is working towards an FID in 2027 with commercial operations anticipated to begin in 2030 with an annual production capacity of approximately 300,000 tons of eSAF and SAF as part of a larger clean fuels development expected to eventually produce over 400,000 tons per year of aviation fuel. This project is expected to be an important response to quickly growing demand for SAF, bolstered by new regulations and incentives such the European Union’s ReFuelEU Aviation regulation that will require fuel suppliers to deliver a 1.2% share of eSAF in all EU airports by 2030 with a goal of 35% by 2050.

07/10/2026

Project Update: BKV Expands Texas Carbon Sequestration Footprint with Eagle Ford & Cotton Cove Launch 📈🌎

At Global Energy Infrastructure, we are closely tracking the build-out of commercial carbon management networks across major North American shale basins.

Our databases reflect a major milestone from BKV Corporation, which has successfully initiated operations at its Eagle Ford Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) facility in South Texas. Coming on the heels of their Cotton Cove commissioning in the Fort Worth Basin earlier this year, BKV now operates three commercial-scale CCS facilities in the state.

Together, these two new sites will permanently isolate over 120,000 metric tons of CO2 annually deep underground.

Technical and Partner Breakdown:
The Eagle Ford Project: Executed under BKV’s joint venture with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) (via its Energy Transition Fund I). The facility intercepts a waste CO2 stream from an active natural gas processing plant, compresses and transports it, and permanently sequesters 90,000 metric tons of CO2 per year via a Class II injection well. BKV holds EPA monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) plan approvals and initially retains all generated environmental credits.

The Cotton Cove Project: Co-developed with Banpu Power US, this site safely locks away approximately 32,000 metric tons of CO2 annually, drawing directly from BKV’s co-located, owned-and-operated midstream infrastructure.

Strategic Vector: These deployments reinforce a growing industry trend of upstream and midstream asset integration to reduce the carbon intensity of traditional fossil fuel production. BKV reports that it remains on track toward its broader stated goal of a 1.5 million metric ton annual CO2 injection rate by 2028.

📊 Track the Data: Full project specs, asset mapping, and infrastructure timelines for these facilities and other global carbon mitigation assets are fully live on our platform.

Explore the data at ➡️ globalenergyinformation.com

07/06/2026

West Coast Oil Pipeline for Canada’s energy sector

The Government of Alberta has officially requested that a proposed new oil pipeline, running from Alberta (AB) to the west coast of British Columbia (B.C.) be recognized as a Project of National Interest.

This major project brings together the Government of Canada (through Trans Mountain), the Government of Alberta (through the APMC), and Pembina Pipeline Corporation in a unique joint venture, with a firm commitment to future Indigenous Equity ownership.

🗺️ Where Will It Go?
The project is focusing its submission on a southern route that would connect the Bruderheim area (near Edmonton) to a deep-water marine terminal on B.C.’s southwest coast. By largely following the existing Trans Mountain pipeline corridor, the project aims to minimize environmental disruption. Trans Mountain and the Major Projects Office are starting extensive outreach with Indigenous groups and communities along the corridor to help guide the final alignment.

🗺️ Is there an alternative route?
The other option is to run a pipeline from the Fort McMurray area, AB to near Prince Rupert on the B.C. coast.

💻 Explore the Maps and Data:
Want to dive into the technical details? All project information, data, and interactive mapping are available online through Global Energy Information at ➡️ www.globalenergyinformation.com.

📈 Meeting Global Demand:
Market demand remains undeniable. Trans Mountain's existing system has operated at full capacity through Q2 and into Q3 2026. To meet this immediate need, Trans Mountain is advancing its Mainline Optimization Project, set to boost current system capacity by 300,000 bpd (bringing total capacity to 1,190,000 bpd).

This new pipeline project is a definitive step forward for Canadian energy security, international market diversification, and progressive partnership models. What are your thoughts on this new partnership and routing approach for Canadian infrastructure? Let us know in the comments! 👇

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