Legal and Policy Framework for Promoting Petroleum Expertise in Africa
Article from: OGEL 3 (2006), in Africa
Summary
The problem of promoting petroleum expertise in Africa has been a 'recurring decimal' because, since the first oil discovery in Africa some 100 years ago, Africa has relied on finance, and human expertise from abroad, whether in the area of technology or management for developing and sustaining its oil industry. Today Africa is on the cusp of a large oil boom from the Gulf of Guinea, to the Mediterranean coast line, but the lamentable state of the African Oil Industry is buttressed by its 100 years of epileptic growth occasioned by its foreign dependence, from exploration, oil field ...