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Some statistics on this page are disputed and controversial—different sources (OPEC, CIA World Factbook, oil companies) give different figures. Some of the differences reflect different types of oil included. Different estimates may or may not include oil shale, mined oil sands or natural gas liquids.
A Guyanese historian, Walter Rodney, posits that foreign ownership of African natural resources is the "most direct way" that rich countries continue to dominate African states without formally colonizing them: "When citizens of Europe own the land and the mines of Africa, this is the most direct way of sucking the African continent." [9]
Oil reserves in Libya are the largest in Africa, and among the ten largest oil reserves globally [1] with 46.4 billion barrels (7.38 × 10 ^ 9 m 3) of proven oil reserves as of 2010. Oil production was 1.65 million barrels per day (262 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d) as of 2010, giving Libya 77 years of reserves at current production rates if no new reserves ...
Energy in Africa is a scarcer commodity than in the developed world – annual consumption is 518 KWh in Sub-Saharan Africa, the same amount of electricity used by an individual in an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD – example is the U.S.) country in 25 days. [12]
Uganda has proven crude oil reserves of 6.5 billion barrels, about 2.2 billion of which is recoverable. [5] The country has the fourth-largest oil reserves in sub-Saharan Africa, behind Nigeria, Angola, and South Sudan. [6] Buseruka Subcounty in Hoima District has been selected to be the location of Uganda's only oil refinery. [7]
Equatorial Guinea has Africa's highest GDP per capita. Oil-rich countries such as Algeria, Libya and Gabon, and mineral-rich Botswana have emerged among the top economies since the 21st century, while Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo are potentially among the world's richest nations by natural resources, but have sunk into the list ...
According to BMC, "Nigeria is Africa's energy giant. It is the continent's most prolific oil-producing country, which, along with Libya, accounts for two-thirds of Africa's crude oil reserves. It ranks second to Algeria in natural gas. [8] Most of Africa's bitumen and lignite reserves are found in Nigeria. In its mix of conventional energy ...
This list of oil fields includes some major oil fields of the past and present. Countries by proven oil reserves 2017. The list is incomplete; there are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world. [1] However, 94 % of known oil is concentrated in fewer than 1,500 giant and major fields. [2]