Mining Developments News

The country’s second oil and gas licensing round for the exploration of five blocks in the Albertine Graben, Uganda, aims to increase international investment into Uganda’s oil-rich energy sector, with the government expecting to sign Production Sharing Agreements and issue exploration licenses to successful firms by December 2020. Frank Mugisha, Manager, Second Licensing Round Uganda explains in this Q&A with Africa Oil & Power (AOP): Why is Uganda conducting a second licensing round for oil and gas exploration blocks? The second licensing round is driven by factors including the establishment of additional petroleum resources and reserves, the current high price of crude oil, interest in investing in the country’s oil and gas sector, a conducive investment climate and minimal geological and commercial risk. The increase in the current resource base will ensure that the expensive infrastructure, such as our refinery and crude export pipeline, are economically sustained f...

SKF delivers superior quality end-to-end power transmission solutions for virtually any type of application in industries such as agriculture, sugar, cement, coal, and minerals processing. SKF’s comprehensive range of conveyor chain, belt drives, wedge belts, standard and specialist couplings, locking elements and rapidly detachable bushes, combined with specialist services, conveniently give customers access to all their power transmission requirements from a world-class single-source supplier. Kicking off the power transmission portfolio is SKF’s innovative conveyor chain which is perfectly suited to conveying or lifting a load at relatively low speeds. Frans Odendaal, Product Manager: Power Transmission at SKF recommends SKF belt drives as the best solution in applications where the speed limit of chain drives is exceeded or if the cost of running chains becomes exorbitant. He explains that belt drives need higher speed to generate the friction required to drive a system. SKF’s...

As a global bearing and rotating technology specialist, SKF South Africa is committed to assisting companies to achieve their productivity goals whilst remaining environmentally friendly. The Multilog On-line System IMx-M was the perfect solution for condition monitoring at a biomass electricity plant in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga. The biomass plant will produce electricity using the waste generated by the neighbouring paper plant during the paper making process. This waste will be used to fire the boilers to generate steam which will drive a turbine, generating 25MW. SKF received a proposal request for a condition monitoring system with 4-20 mA outputs from the customer who is in the process of designing the biomass plant. SKF proposed the sophisticated IMx-8 condition monitoring device. Lourens Zeelie, Online Condition Monitoring Specialist at SKF South Africa, explains that this device however does not feature the requested 4-20 mA outputs. “So we revisited our extensive IMx product ...