Oil Exploration Boom In Namibia
June 25th, 2024
Via Reuters, a report on Namibia’s oil boom: Namibia has become an oil exploration hotspot after several discoveries in recent years along its coast. It has not yet produced any oil or gas, but oil majors such as TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA), opens new tab and Shell (SHEL.L), opens new tab have made discoveries estimated at 2.6 billion barrels, with production in the […]
Read more »Copper and Lithium at the Heart of New African Investment
June 18th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, an article on the role of copper and lithium at the heart of new African investment: Recent data confirms copper and lithium as the mineral success stories of the African continent, with new exploration projects concentrated in Central and Southern Africa. With 40 active exploration projects for copper and 19 for […]
Read more »The Audacious Plan to Seed a Global Green Hub in Namibia’s Desert
June 7th, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg a report on the audacious plan to see a global green hydrogen hub in Namibia: Early in May, King Philippe of Belgium was on the edge of the Namib desert to inaugurate a project that aims to help decarbonize European industry, and which might just enable one of Africa’s smallest economies to hit the clean-energy big […]
Read more »Is It Time For Africa’s Green Hydrogen Revolution?
May 24th, 2024
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an article on Africa’s green hydrogen industry: Although the continent has huge potential to produce ‘green gold’, only a few green hydrogen projects have reached the feasibility study and design phase, and without final investment decisions made. To decarbonise its economy, the European Union (EU) is banking on Africa’s potential […]
Read more »Scramble for Namibia: Only One Supermajor Yet to Enter Race
May 5th, 2024
Via Namibia’s Business Express, a report on the growing scramble for Namibia’s oil, where only one supermajor has yet to join the race: As the scramble for Namibian oil heats up, four of world’s five largest listed oil companies -known as the super-majors- have now entered Namibia’s red hot orange basin with only ExxonMobil yet […]
Read more »Tycoon Sees $3.5 Billion Investments in Namibia Green Hydrogen
May 3rd, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on one Belgian entrepreneur’s large scale investment plans for Namibia’s green hydrogen industry: CMB expects $3.5 billion of investment in five years Namibia is seeking to tap abundant sun, wind for hydrogen Cie Maritime Belge SA, a Belgian shipping company, expects green hydrogen production in Namibia to start in the fourth […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.