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Calgary’s 24th WPC: Energy transition for Africa is an ‘existential challenge’ – Upstream

  • Continent wants its own plan to best serve its needs
Omar Farouk Ibrahim, Secretary General at the African Petroleum Producers Organisation (centre) and Anibor Kragha, Executive Secretary at the African Refiners and Distributors Association (right). 24th WPC
Omar Farouk Ibrahim, Secretary General at the African Petroleum Producers Organisation (centre) and Anibor Kragha, Executive Secretary at the African Refiners and Distributors Association (right). (24th WPC)

Fabio Palmigiani, Upstream

CALGARY
Energiesnet.com 09 21 2023

Two executives from African industry associations have voiced their discontent with the way the energy transition is being presented to countries on the continent.

Omar Farouk Ibrahim, Secretary General at the African Petroleum Producers Organisation (APPO), said the same metrics on energy transition cannot be applied to developed countries and poorer nations in Africa.

“Africa is not against the energy transition. That is not the case. To the developed countries of the world, energy transition or the challenge of energy is a matter of comfort,” Ibrahim told a plenary session on Thursday at the 24th World Petroleum Congress in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

“If there is no energy to you [developed nations], it is a little less comfort than what you have. To Africa, it is an existential challenge.”

He argued many in Africa are dying on a daily basis from inhaling fuels that are toxic because many countries do not have better sources of energy.

“For us, fossil fuel is a much better source of energy than to use cow dung and sticks and so on to heat our homes,” Ibrahim said.

Speaking on the same panel, Anibor Kragha, Executive Secretary at the African Refiners and Distributors Association (ARDA), said that for Africa to start the energy transition, the continent must first require energy to begin with.

He raised the question: “If 800 million Africans do not have access to basic modern energy, what are we transitioning to?”

“Fundamentally, to support energy transition, we need that Africans have their own unique, distinct, peculiar plan by Africans for Africans.”

Kragha said the African continent contributes a tiny fraction of the world’s entire carbon dioxide emissions, with the bulk coming from the European Union, North America and Asia.

“You cannot be telling us to have the same energy transition plan. That is basically what we are saying. We have to come up with a plan that is important and works for everyone,” said Kragha.

He said Africa does not require renewable energy sources like green hydrogen right now, but instead needs liquefied petroleum gas so that citizens on the continent have means to cook their food.

“Focus on what Africa means for Africans. We are 54 different countries and 54 peculiar cultures,” he told the panel.

“Let’s focus on how to understand that and ensure that we are executing the projects in line with the transition for Africa’s immediate needs and then, in the long term, when the renewables technology becomes more cost effective, bring it up.”

upstreamonline.com 09 21 2023

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