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It was created on January 27, 1987, in Lagos, Nigeria, to serve as a platform for cooperation and harmonization of efforts, collaboration, sharing of knowledge and skills among African oil producing countries. The headquarters of the organization is in Brazzaville in the Congo. The Organization changed its name from African Petroleum Producers ...
September 17, 2008 – September 2, 2011. Ken Corday and Gary Tomlin. September 6, 2011 – January 27, 2012. Ken Corday, Noel Maxam and Greg Meng. January 30, 2012 – July 31, 2015. Ken Corday, Lisa de Cazotte and Greg Meng. August 3, 2015 – September 7, 2020. Ken Corday, Albert Alarr and Greg Meng. September 8, 2020 – January 26, 2024.
Petroleum industry in the Republic of the Congo. Oil and Gas dominate the resource sector of the Republic of the Congo ( French: République du Congo ), also referred to as Congo-Brazzaville, with the petroleum industry accounting for 89% of the country's exports in 2010. [1] As of June 22, 2018, is a full member of the Organization of the ...
Natural resources of Africa. Africa has a large quantity of natural resources, including diamonds, sugar, salt, gold, iron, cobalt, uranium, copper, bauxite, silver, petroleum, natural gas and cocoa beans, but also tropical timber and tropical fruit . Recently discovered oil reserves have increased the importance of the commodity in African ...
The Kingdom of Dahomey (/ d ə ˈ h oʊ m i /) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. It developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by expanding south to conquer key cities like Whydah belonging to the Kingdom of Whydah on the Atlantic ...
Musk. Musk is a class of aromatic substances commonly used as base notes in perfumery. They include glandular secretions from animals such as the musk deer, numerous plants emitting similar fragrances, and artificial substances with similar odors. [1] [2] Musk was a name originally given to a substance with a strong odor obtained from a gland ...
2023 marked the sixth straight that the United States led the world in oil production, shale oil fracking has dramatically increased the country's oil output since 2010. The United States also became a net petroleum exporter in 2020, for the first time since at least 1949. U.S. crude oil exports reached a record high in the first half of 2023.
The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), also known as the Uganda–Tanzania Crude Oil Pipeline (UTCOP), [5] [4] is a 1,443 km crude oil pipeline in planning since 2013, with a foundation stone nominally under construction since 2017 [6] and intended to transport crude oil from Uganda 's Tilenga and Kingfisher oil fields to the Port of ...