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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Désiré Guedon, Minister of Energy and Water Resources from The Report: Gabon 2014
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Nicholas Cooper, Executive Director & CEO, OPHIR Energy from The Report: Gabon 2014
Interviews & Viewpoints | Etienne Dieudonné Ngoubou, Minister of Petroleum and Hydrocarbons from The Report: Gabon 2014
What measures are planned in the new hydrocarbons code to ensure better integration of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)?
Articles & Analysis | Despite its vast potential, hydroelectric generation still takes second from The Report: Gabon 2014
Having a large hydroelectric generation base is a boon to Gabon, giving it low-cost renewable energy. It is hydrocarbons, however, that continue to power most of the country’s plants. According to the most recent statistics available from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), from 2011, non-renewable thermal energy sources top hydroelectricity, which produced...
Si les exportations marocaines de phosphates – secteur clé de l’économie du royaume- n’ont pas été épargnées par la baisse des prix des matières premières, une croissance générale est attendue pour les années à venir, la plupart des analystes prévoyant un rétablissement du marché mondial d’ici 2016. Malgré ces perturbations cycliques, le groupe public marocain, l’Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP), travaille actuellement sur plusieurs projets avec pour objectif d’accroître la production. La hausse des ventes de produits à valeur ajoutée tels que les engrais pourrait permettre, dans un avenir proche, de compenser la baisse des prix des matières premières.
Gabon is the fifth-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa and oil dominates the economy, accounting for roughly half of state revenues and more than 80% of export revenues. Over the last decade, however, output has declined as the country’s larger oil fields mature.
Oil production peaked in 1997 at 370,000 bpd but stabilised in recent years around 240,000 bpd. The decline in...