Making history, Senegal🇸🇳 produces first #oil at its inaugural offshore oil project – the Sangomar field development.
#OPEC congratulates #Senegal and stands side by side with #Senegal as it develops its oil production.
#OPEC has always advocated for African #oil producers to exploit their natural resources for the development of their nations and the welfare of #African citizens.
Africa's richest man - Aliko Dangote - says he needs 35 visas to travel in Africa on his Nigerian passport.
A French passport has more visa-free access in Africa than Dangote
Too many African politicians and sometimes local businesses, lawyers and civil society groups are quick to say, “It’s our oil. It’s our country.” They take an “us versus them” attitude, as if “they” are coming in to steal our resources. We need to move away from the “my country, my oil” mindset. It’s wrong, and it’s hurting our industry and average people. We must be honest with ourselves and recognize that resource nationalism—a country’s efforts to maintain tight-fisted control of its resources—is just as bad as racism or sexism.
I know they argue that it is OUR oil. It is true. But until we have the ability (technical and financial wherewithal) to extract our oil and gas like bp , Kosmos Energy , Woodside Energy Chevron ExxonMobil TotalEnergies , and others do, why are we adding roadblocks instead of incentivizing production? Sometimes, I think our governments simply ignore the fact that investors are spending a lot of money to make these projects work and that their successes will be, eventually, our own.
Xenophobic feelings about expatriates or foreigners coming into our countries to work infect the entire system. And that, in turn, affects the African people we want to protect and empower. Africans have been around the world, and we have marched and protested to be treated with decency and respect as human beings.
When we operate from a mindset of resource nationalism, we bring the very attitude we have fought against to our own business dealings. We are less likely to create an enabling environment for investment, less likely to be transparent, less likely to develop effective local content policies, and less likely to benefit from knowledge-sharing, capacity building, and valuable public-private partnerships. We have never seen a country grow stronger and more prosperous as a result of resource nationalism—and if we wade into that territory, we stand to lose.
#communitygrowth #africanenergy #sharingresources
Tanzania have shut down five hydroelectric stations in a bid to reduce excess electricity in the national grid.
It is the first time Tanzania, which suffers chronic power shortages, has closed hydroelectric stations due to excess production.
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#COP28 was over on December 13. They pushed Africans to abandon Oil and Gas. They pledge to transition away.
On December 19, barely a week, #Germany and Norway sign a $50 billion Gas Agreement. They don’t believe that Africans should use gas for their development and get out of energy poverty. There goes your climate action.
If there is one thing that is true about these rich nations, it is brazen hypocrisy. It’s often the same folks who are most critical of natural gas that are the biggest consumers and cheerleaders of natural gas for themselves.
To those who are against us using gas, facts are seldom allowed to contaminate their beautiful vision of the world. What is more important to them are the Anti African climate slogans, endlessly repeated.
That’s why I tell African nations to #SignBabySign and #DrillBabyDrill.
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Yolanda located in 896m of water and nearly 50km east of Bioko Island. I-3 well was drilled in 2007 to a depth of 2,890m, yielded flow rates , 36,000ft³/d of natural gas. Yoyo is located in water depths of 528m where the YoYo-1 well drilled with flow rates of 31,000ft³/d of gas
The CABEF coreproject team visited Chad from March 14 to 17, 2023, as part of a contact trip with institutional partners and suppliers of the megaevent "in progress"
#CABEF2023, 8-10 November 2023 / Radisson Blu Hotel / N'DJAMENA - Chad
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#pipeline#chad
E: APPO NOCs CEOs held their 4th meeting today 21st March 2023 at El Aurassi Hotel, Algiers, Algeria, to discuss the activities of APPO and the challenges of the energy scene in the era of the Global Energy Transition. The SG of APPO, H.E Dr Omar Farouk Ibrahim was in attendance
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Signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement, with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, to exploit oil and gas along Cameroon's border with Equatorial Guinea.
#CEMAC#PaulBiya#Cameroon
El Ministro de Planificación y Diversificación Económica @GabrielObiang@mpyde23 y el @UNDP_EG focalizan su colaboración en la #DiversificaciónEconómica con énfasis en:
🟦La Economía Azul
🟩La implementación de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenibles (#ODS ) en G.E