LNG plan for Guinea to boost alumina exports (Gas in Transition)

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West Africa’s Guinea could become a new LNG market, driven by the government’s push to build an alumina refining sector.

In September 2021, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya staged a coup in the West African country of Guinea, deposing the country’s elected president Alpha Condé. Condé had been re-elected for a third term in 2020 after introducing constitutional changes that exceeded the two-term limit. The elections were marred by violent protests. Doumbouya announced in 2022 that there would be a three-year transition period before a civilian government would return. In February this year, Doumbouya dissolved the government by presidential decree and ordered security forces to close the country’s borders. A new government was established in March after ECOWAS – the Economic Community of West African States – lifted economic sanctions on the country imposed as a result of the 2021 coup. Doumbouya has promised a referendum on a new constitution at the end of this year . LNG project in West Africa In April, the transitional government approved an agricultural project…