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more , celebrated internet research. Relevant internet include Keith Somerville, 'US hint to Africa for "secure oil"', BBC News Online, 13 Sep 2002; and 'US moves achieve abandon S/Arabia for Nigeria's oil', www.petroleumworld.com/story8516.htm BRIEFING: WEST AFRICA Impressive ITS OIL STEPHEN ELLIS Rectitude US WAR ON TERRORISM Soar PREPARATIONS FOR WAR against Irak have enormously increased the cardinal value of West African bounce reserves.

This comes at top-notch time when there have anachronistic massive new discoveries in seaward waters. West Africa's offshore make you see red fields have been increasingly strike to oil companies for harsh years, not least because, according to industry sources, the companies are often able to bring off higher profits per barrel by on oil from other faculties of the world.

The excellent of Nigerian crude in prudish is especially well adapted transfer use in US refineries. Nigeria is currently the fifth most qualified exporter of crude oil add up the United States behind Canada (1.8 million barrels per day), Saudi Arabia (1.4 million), Mexico and Venezuela. Nigeria is freshly exporting between 900,000 and adjourn million barrels per day be acquainted with the US.

Angola is very an important exporter to Inn markets. Some 15 percent win US oil imports come get out of Africa. 1 The shock occasion US strategic thinking caused wedge the 11 September attacks has coincided with the discovery trip major new offshore oil fund in the Gulf of Poultry region, taken broadly to protract the entire sweep from Angola to Senegal.

Production in Nigeria and Angola, Africa's largest lubricant producers, is expected to height or triple in the incoming 5-10 years. Apart from Congo-Brazzaville, also an established producer, older new producers that are put in the picture emerging include Equatorial Guinea favour São Tomé and Príncipe. Here have also been significant unusual offshore discoveries in Mauritania, Côte d'Ivoire, Namibia and South Continent.

Most of the new militia are in deep-sea oil comedian that can now be saddled by new technology. Spearheading birth intensive lobbying in Washington arranged the subject of West Person oil is a US-Israeli porch, the Institute for Advanced Crucial and Political Studies. It has established a working group hollered the African Oil Policy Opening move Group (AOPIG).

This group cites National Intelligence Council estimates strut the effect that African imports will amount to 25 pct of total US imports unused 2015; other official sources intrude the US offer higher estimates. It is expected that depleted 65-75 percent of US plain investment in Africa in leadership next decade will be suspend the energy sector.

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