Senegal and Algeria Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Electricity Cooperation

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On October 3, Senegal's national electricity company Senelec and Algeria's state-owned energy group Sonelgaz signed a memorandum of understanding on electricity cooperation in Algiers. The agreement was signed by Sonelgaz Acting Chief Executive Officer Nabil Kafi and Senelec General Manager Gaye Toby, with Algeria's Minister of Energy and Renewable Energy Mourad Adjal and Senegal's Minister of Energy and Petroleum El Hadji Abdourahmane Diouf attending the signing ceremony. The two parties will carry out cooperation in the electricity sector under the memorandum.

From October 3 to 4, the Senegalese energy delegation visited the Sonelgaz digital exhibition center, the national power dispatch center and the SAIEG industrial facility in Rouïba, and held talks with the Algerian energy authorities on power infrastructure, renewable energy and technical cooperation. Potential cooperation between Senegal's national oil company Petrosen and Algeria's national oil company Sonatrach has also entered into consultations, involving oil and gas exploration, resource development and professional technical exchanges.

From October 11 to 13, Algeria and Senegal held the sixth session of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission on Cooperation, during which the two sides signed 15 cooperation agreements and memoranda of understanding covering energy, mining, geology, investment, transport and other fields. In a joint communiqué issued on October 13, the two countries listed oil and gas exploration and production, refining, the petrochemical industry, renewable energy and energy efficiency as areas for further cooperation, and agreed to identify priority projects and corresponding implementation timetables.

The two countries also plan to sign an intergovernmental cooperation agreement in the energy sector during the MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power conference to be held in Dakar from December 2 to 3, 2026.