Oil-Age Africa

Oil-Age Africa
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2022-10-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004530061

Oil-Age Africa offers new insights and critical reflections from qualitative research on the politics, industries and communities in African oil producers.

Untapped

Untapped
Author: John Hossein Ghazvinian
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0151011389

To find out how the new oil boom is affecting Africa, Ghazvinian traveled the country for a firsthand look. The result is a high-octane narrative that reveals the challenges, obstacles, reasons for despair, and reasons for hope emerging from the worlds newest energy hot spot.

The New Kings of Crude

The New Kings of Crude
Author: Luke Patey
Publisher: Hurst
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1849045380

In the past decade, the need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. The New Kings of Crude takes the reader from the dusty streets of an African capital to Asia's glistening corporate towers to provide a first look at how the world's rising economies established new international oil empires in Sudan, amid one of Africa's longest-running and deadliest civil wars. For over a decade, Sudan fuelled the international rise of Chinese and Indian national oil companies. But the political turmoil surrounding the historic division of Africa's largest country, with the birth of South Sudan, challenged Asia's oil giants to chart a new course. Luke Patey weaves together the stories of hardened oilmen, powerful politicians, rebel fighters, and human rights activists to show how the lure of oil brought China and India into Sudan--only later to ensnare both in the messy politics of a divided country. His book also introduces the reader to the Chinese and Indian oilmen and politicians who were willing to become entangled in an African civil war in the pursuit of the world's most coveted resource. It offers a portrait of the challenges China and India are increasingly facing as emerging powers in the world.

The End of Oil

The End of Oil
Author: Paul Roberts
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2005-04-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0547525117

“A stunning piece of work—perhaps the best single book ever produced about our energy economy and its environmental implications” (Bill McHibbon, The New York Review of Books). Petroleum is so deeply entrenched in our economy, politics, and daily lives that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail. Companies and governments depend on oil revenues. Developing nations see oil as their only means to industrial success. And the Western middle class refuses to modify its energy-dependent lifestyle. But even by conservative estimates, we will have burned through most of the world’s accessible oil within mere decades. What will we use in its place to maintain a global economy and political system that are entirely reliant on cheap, readily available energy? In The End of Oil, journalist Paul Roberts talks to both oil optimists and pessimists around the world. He delves deep into the economics and politics, considers the promises and pitfalls of oil alternatives, and shows that—even though the world energy system has begun its epochal transition—we need to take a more proactive stance to avoid catastrophic disruption and dislocation.

Oil and Gas in Africa

Oil and Gas in Africa
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Gas industry
ISBN: 9781383046298

This text presents a comprehensive analysis of the oil and gas resources in Africa. It uniquely highlights, through country examples, and with an African focus but a global perspective, the specific challenges and constraints facing the continent as a whole in the exploitation and utilization of its oil and gas resources.

Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa

Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa
Author: Martin Lynn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2002-05-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521893268

An authoritative and comprehensive study of the palm oil trade.

Nigeria and the Nation-State

Nigeria and the Nation-State
Author: John Campbell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2024-08-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1538197812

Nigeria, despite being the African country of greatest strategic importance to the U.S., remains poorly understood. John Campbell explains why Nigeria is so important to understand in a world of jihadi extremism, corruption, oil conflict, and communal violence. The revised edition provides updates through the recent presidential election.

Oil Mortality in Post-Fossil Fuel Era Nigeria

Oil Mortality in Post-Fossil Fuel Era Nigeria
Author: Augustine Sadiq Okoh
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2020-11-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030607852

This book provides an insight into the complexities of weaning Nigeria from its fossil fuels addiction while growing the economy on low carbon trajectory. Nigeria faces a carbon catch 22 with the proliferation of renewable energy alternatives and scale-up of electric vehicles. The dilemma Nigeria is confronted with is to grow its fossil-led economy or face the challenge of its fossil infrastructure becoming stranded assets. It is a roadmap for plotting an environmentally benign path out of the country’s economic, social and environmental crises. This book is, therefore, a valuable resource for students, Civil Society Organizations, policymakers, academics and climate change adaptation practitioners who are interested in finding an environmentally sensitive path out of Nigeria’s economic cul-de-sac fostered by the decarbonization of the global energy economy. Findings of this study will trigger a national conversation on the looming exit from fossil fuels. In doing so, accelerate the integration of renewable energy into the Nigerian national development plan while building a carbon neutral society. Lessons learnt from the handling of Nigeria’s precarious circumstance will be of immense benefit to other oil prospecting, oil producing and non-producing nations who are interested in finding an equitable way of pursuing two inversely related goals of meeting their decarbonization commitments while simultaneously growing their economies in the post-Paris era.

Africa Since 1940

Africa Since 1940
Author: Frederick Cooper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2002-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521776004

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Africa’s Booming Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production: National Security Implications for The United States and China

Africa’s Booming Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production: National Security Implications for The United States and China
Author: David E. Brown
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2014-02-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1304866270

Two key long-term energy trends are shifting the strategic balance between the United States and China, the world's superpower rivals in the 21st century: first, a domestic boom in U.S. shale oil and gas is dramatically boosting America's energy security; second, the frenetic and successful search for hydrocarbons in Africa is making it an increasingly crucial element in China's energy diversification strategy. America's increasing energy security and China's increased dependence on energy imports from Africa and the Middle East until well past 2040 despite its own shale discoveries will make Beijing's own increasing energy insecurity be felt even more acutely, pushing the People's Liberation Army to accelerate adoption of a "two ocean" military strategy that includes an enduring presence in the Indian Ocean as well as the Pacific Ocean.