By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber It’s not unusual, when discussing Africa’s local content laws for natural resources, to focus on employment. Local content typically specifies that a company operating in “Country X” must hire a certain percentage...
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber In a televised speech earlier this summer, South Africa’s Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, pushed back strongly against environmental groups’ efforts to block oil and gas production in his...
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber The Republic of Congo is entering an exciting new economic era. Last month, in partnership with Italian energy major Eni, the country launched its first LNG project. The USD5 billion project, which will use...
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber The 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, or the Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27), held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in November 2022, featured a slight philosophical shift from where...
The Heated Energy Debate The deeper that we head into this decade, the more and more it seems that everybody has developed some sort of viewpoint when it comes to energy. Do we fully dispense with fossil fuels and charge headlong into renewable energy sources? Or...
