Ivory Coast
Total takes back seat to Anadarko
Ivory Coast’s government didn’t give the French major the big stakes it wanted on three blocks that Anadarko is to operate.
Anadarko was an oil and gas exploration company based in Texas and one of America’s most active oil companies in Africa. It was a pioneer in the nascent Mozambican oil industry, before making way for the major oil companies, as they alone had the requisite financial resources to develop the oilfields in the country's offshore. It was taken over by Occidental Petroleum in 2019.