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Looming scandal over uncounted barrels

The amount of crude really produced by oil companies has always been a delicate subject in Gabon. With the drop in the oil price cutting into the country's revenue, the Direction Generale des Hydrocarbures (DGH) was recently ordered to conduct [...] (596 words)

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