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Chapter | Energy from The Report: Nigeria 2013

In 2011 Nigeria had the world’s 10th-largest oil reserves, at 37.2bn barrels, and the ninth-largest reserves of associated gas, at 182trn standard cu feet. Yet as the country’s proven reserves of both oil and gas start to decline, the imperative will be to clarify the industry’s long-term legal and fiscal outlooks to encourage more investment in exploration and production. Despite legislative...

Chapter | Energy from The Report: Algeria 2013

As the world’s 15th-largest oil producer and ninth-largest producer of natural gas, Algeria largely relies on its significant hydrocarbons reserves and strong export markets in Europe and the US to drive its economy. In 2012 the country produced almost 1.7m barrels per day of oil and 81.5bn cu metres of natural gas. State-owned Sonatrach controls around 80% of the upstream segment; however,...

As the single most populous nation in Africa, Nigeria recently overtook South Africa as the largest economy on the continent. Natural resources, oil and gas in particular, comprise the country’s single largest revenue-earner but the 170m person economy also has seen significant activity in recent years into the industrial, financial, telecoms and – as of 2013 – power sectors.

Businesses and consumers in Nigeria will be hoping that a more reliable electricity supply could be in sight after the government transferred most of the country’s power generation and distribution to the private sector at the beginning of November.

Considerable oil and gas revenues have provided the Algerian government with sufficient funds to embark on generous public spending programmes in nearly all sectors, leading to improvements in many of the country’s headline indicators. 

À l’instar de ses voisins du Golfe de Guinée, la Côte d’Ivoire a enregistré une augmentation régulière de sa production d’hydrocarbures en amont. D’après le Ministère du Pétrole et de l’Énergie, la production de gaz naturel devrait atteindre cette année 220 millions de pieds cubes par jour, contre 110 millions de pieds cubes par jour en 2012, et devrait dépasser les 250 millions par jour en 2014.

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