Shell/Exxon advance together
A recent visit to Shell's headquarters in The Hague by Somali's natural resources minister Abdirizak Omar Mohamed had been awaited [...]
The backing London has given the Somalian government is not without mercantile ulterior motives. Among other things, it will allow British consultants and oil companies to be well placed when the country's security situation improves so that mineral resources can be extracted. However, in so doing, the British government is caught between its pragmatism which pushes it to take the autonomous regional entities (Somaliland, Puntland and Jubaland) into account and its desire to forge privileged ties with the federal government in Mogadishu which does not recognise these regional states. A recent British-funded report on the oil sector carried out by the firm Adam Smith International (ASI) brought this contradiction to a head. We go back to look at the events that led to this situation.
A recent visit to Shell's headquarters in The Hague by Somali's natural resources minister Abdirizak Omar Mohamed had been awaited [...]
Writing in a 14-page long comment sent to the British consultancy Adam Smith International (ASI) last month, the director general [...]
Adam Smith International’s study on the extractive industries in Somalia has produced an outcry in Mogadishu. [...]
The recent 80-page report on the extractive industry in Somalia by Adam Smith International (ASI), had a very frosty reception [...]
After flirting with the idea of publicly denouncing the Italian company ENI, the Somalian oil ministry finally entered dialogue with its executives. [...]
Soma Oil & Gas, which is headed by Michael Howard, the former chairman of the UK Conservative Party, has found some Russian financial backers. [...]
A Canadian investment fund specialised in contracts with African breakaway movements has its eye on Somalian oil. Kilimanjaro Capital, founded [...]
After running the oil and gas department of the Canadian law firm McLeod Dixon for over 30 years, Jay Park [...]
A company headed by former British Conservative Party leader Michael Howard (who now goes under the title of Lord Howard [...]
The Somalian government decided on June 7 to extend the country's territorial waters to 200 nautical miles and chose a [...]
Shell’s permit in Somalia has lain idle for decades because of "force majeure" but the company clearly prizes the acreage. [...]
Somalian Minister of Natural Resources Abdirizak Omar Mohamed has just set up his new oil team. On February 17, he [...]
After the Norwegian firm Statoil, which dropped block L26 because it was situated in a maritime zone whose boundaries were [...]
The advisors to the outgoing oil minister, Abdulkadir Mohamed Diesow, are bustling about while they wait to find out who will be their new boss. [...]
The apparent improvement in the political and security situation in Mogadishu has prompted the Anglo-Dutch major to make fresh contact with the local authorities. [...]
The prospect that conditions conducive to searching for oil in Somalia are returning has resulted in a variety of initiatives. And this despite the fact that the civil war against the Al Shabaab Islamists has not yet been won, even [. [...]