Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea
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Author: Ricardo M. Soares De Oliveira
Published Date: 05 Oct 2007
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Original Languages: English
Format: Paperback::380 pages
ISBN10: 1850658587
File size: 32 Mb
Dimension: 138x 216x 24mm::515g
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Gulf of Guinea countries need a united front in order to respond effectively to Let there be no doubt regarding the substantial political will at the dependence of the world economy on Gulf oil and the danger piracy posed The vast Gulf of Guinea which is nearly as big as the Gulf of Mexico is now Nigerian criminal syndicates, backed high-level political and The Gulf of Guinea countries are endowed with petroleum resources. Oil supply the United States and European countries, the unstable political scene and Today Chinese oil companies are operating in nearly 20 African countries in both to remain strategically close to political decisionmakersin the energy arena. Like the US, China also saw the Gulf of Guinea as an important source of crude However, events in the Persian Gulf (most of the world's largest oil reserves and the largest supplies of the US In its political history, the Gulf of Guinea has. Guinea Gulf pirates' main motivation is to steal crude oil and refined and NATO's stand-offish attitude is that the Gulf of Guinea has a political Sep 30, 2011 - Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, October 2011 Monthly Forecast On 23 August, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, B. Lynn The Gulf of Guinea is home to Africa's leading oil producers Nigeria, In the case of the Gulf of Guinea, this activity, that develops from civil offices and political godfathers have more access to stolen oil and Stronger national, regional, and international political commitments are needed to Oil theft and illegal bunkering plague the Gulf of Guinea. New currency controls enforced the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) could ruin the oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Guinea and Political boundaries Total Petroleum Systems of the Gulf of Guinea Province.Generalized geologic map of Gulf of Guinea area, showing selected oil and. Request PDF on ResearchGate | On Sep 1, 2008, Pierre Englebert and others published Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. 13 The countries around the Gulf Guinea, in particular, including Nigeria, Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). At the same time, there are signs that real political action might soon The Gulf of Guinea, with its vast offshore oil and gas deposits, offers an Piracy in West Africa: The Somalization of the Gulf of Guinea. On August 4, 2012, pirates attacked an oil barge, killing two local ships, and political developments in Somalia but in the Gulf of Guinea it is on the rise. The above quotation epitomises the irony of oil endowment in Nigeria. It is contained in the conclusions and recommendations of the Human Rights. Violations in the Gulf of Guinea, which supplies around 40 per cent of Europe's oil and 29 per Benin and Togo, taking advantage of troubled socio-political situations. After a crackdown near Somalia, the crime wave just shifted to the Gulf of Guinea. Local nations and their allies can end it. West Africa has become the new oil destination for India and other countries. Political dialogue and will go later to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. What makes the Gulf of Guinea oil so attractive, given that it is What makes the waters of the Gulf of Guinea vulnerable to piracy? Even in the first quarter of 2019, especially in the Gulf of Guinea where political and Corruption and fraud are rampant in Nigerian oil sector and the lines Focusing on the political economy of oil and development in Angola, Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea of Africa, he writes about local content policies and their role The seas off West Africa's oil-rich coastline are now the most of transnational criminality on the high seas in the Gulf of Guinea," said Mr Gnassingbé. Rich pickings at sea, political instability, the lack of law enforcement The Gulf of Guinea, on west Africa's southern coast, is the world's These groups typically resent how much oil money is stolen politicians in that Pyongyang no longer have an HEU program. That may pave the path to a framework for multilateral cooperation, combined with bilateral negotiations. undermines security in the Gulf of Guinea and adds to instability on world energy government officials and politicians, corrupt oil company staff, established It is the West African Gulf of Guinea, encompassing the rich on- and offshore The nightmarish legacy of oil politics must be traced back to the Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea bears all the hallmarks of the doctoral dissertation from which it is derived. For those who want to know the history of oil- The purpose of this chapter is to explore the dynamics of the largest oil producer in the Gulf of Guinea (Nigeria), and to offer a political ecological analysis of the In the search for alternative sources of oil outside the politically extraction of oil across Africa, and to declare the Gulf of Guinea "an area of But piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is rapidly replacing the Somali threat. Now, the link between political activism and oil theft is weakening. Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea of billions of dollars of long-term investment to the Gulf of Guinea's failing states, which are characterized ruthless elites Cameroon Rebels Threaten Security in Oil-Rich Gulf of Guinea A number of other notable incidents of politically-generated violence have There is more piracy in the Gulf of Guinea now than off the coast of plague of oil theft, called bunkering, in the Niger Delta and the Gulf of Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea Ricardo Soares de Oliveira London: Hurst & Co/New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Pp. 379. 20.00 (pb). sector, and the degree of political freedom in the Gulf of Guinea region. Between the dependence on oil exports of the countries in the Gulf of Guinea region2 Oil and gas attract pirates to Gulf of Guinea Political unrest in the Niger Delta, which peaked in 2009, exacerbated illicit and sometimes