Renewables will also come into the frame but its focus will be on petroleum.
"Oil and gas will be the main thing and that's why Algiers was chosen as the headquarters," says Libere Buzingo, the Burundi-born division director for energy, natural resources and the environment at the Addis Ababa-based Organisation of African Unity (OAU).
"Co-ordination and a new databank will initially form the main plank of Afrec but we want to introduce and promote new gas projects very soon."
Afrec's
