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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Abbreviation Key
1 - It's High Time for African Oil and Gas to Fuel a Better Future for Africans
Capitalizing on Copper in Chile
Bright Ideas in Botswana
Don't Give up on Oil and Gas
2 - It's Up to Africans to Fix Africa
Handouts Keep People Down
Collaboration Is Critical to Africa's Future
The Role of African Governments
The Role of African Businesses and Investors
The Role of Pan-African Organizations
3 - A Place at the Table: Africa and OPEC
Growing Numbers, Adding Strength
Friends in the Right Places
If You Want to Go Far, Go Together
The Unknown Effect of NOPEC
Membership and Its Rewards
Funding Real Change
Who Will Be Next?
Toward a Stronger, More Stable Industry
An African at the Helm
4 - Empowering Women for a Stronger, Healthier Oil and Gas Industry
Gender Inequality in Energy and Africa
Leading the Way
Taking Steps
Education: Long-Term Investments
Putting Policies in Place
Non-Government Organizations: Moving in the Right Direction
WEX Africa: Showing How It's Done
Setting the Stage
5 - Abundant, Accessible, Affordable: The “Golden Age” of Natural Gas Shines in Africa
Sparking Social Change in Africa
Growing Interest in Gas-Fired Power
Re-Evaluating Priorities
Ambitions Rise With More LNG
What's Standing in Our Way?
Banding Together
6 - Monetizing Natural Resources: Successes, Lessons, and Risks
Flaring: A Lose-Lose for Africa
Equatorial Guinea Capitalizes on LNG
Qatar's Quest for World Domination
Learn From the Master: Trinidad and Tobago
Where's the Win-Win for Africa?
We Can't Slow Down Now
Exploration Is a Must!
Fostering Foreign Investment
Pushing Production
Successful Mergers That Breed Cooperation
7 - Job Creation: Making Our Own Multiplier Effect
Starting Small (and Medium-Sized)
More Rules, or Better Conditions?
Borrower Beware
Luck, Location, and Labor
8 - A “Recipe” for Economic Diversification
Oil and Gas as the First Step
Moving Down the Chain: Power Generation
Moving Down the Chain: Fertilizer and Other Possibilities
The Right Kind of Support
Onward and Upward
Chile: Not Just Copper Now
9 - Calling All Leaders! More on Good Governance
Sound Fiscal Policies for Revenue Management
Combatting Corruption by Just Saying “No”
The Push for Transparency
Transparency Initiatives: Seeing It All Clearly
Firm and Fair Local Content Policies Strike a Balance
Effective Enforcement
Continued Nurturing Needed
10 - Industrialization: Linking Promise to Prosperity
A Path for Overcoming Old Patterns
Adopting New Paradigms
For Nigeria, a Shift in the Right Direction
Creating Enabling Environments in Kenya
Setting the Future Course Today
Port of Point Lisas
11 - Technological Solutions for Oil and Gas
Overlooking Oil and Gas
The Benefits of Technology
Technology, Infrastructure, and Education
What Can the Government Do?
African Technology Success Stories
12 - Oil and Gas Companies Can Help Reshape African Economies
Africans Helping Africans: Sharing Opportunities and Knowledge
Indigenous Businesses and the Battle Against Corruption
The Role of National Oil Companies: Do They Owe the Community?
13 - Following Nigeria's Lead on Marginal Fields
Stepping Stones
Imitation Is the Best Form of Flattery
A Hole Waiting to Be Filled
Government Must Set the Stage
14 - The Critical Art of Deal-Making : It's Time to Negotiate for a Better Future
Negotiating Fundamentals
Governments: You Have to Demand More
Promise for Africa
Life Happens
A Few Thoughts for This Generation
15 - The Connection Between Energy Security and Social Security
The War on Oil and Gas Assets— and on Quality of Life
Africa Needs Local Solutions
Don't Forget Technology
Groups, Gangs, and Violence
Civil War and Instability
Looking Forward
16 - Managing Oil and Gas Revenue
Unfair and Unbalanced
Looking to Norway
Increasing Local Control
Lessons Learned: The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project
17 - American Ingenuity and Africa Oil and Gas Potential
The Shale Revolution and the New Normal
The Risks
Realities in the Field
SNE Deepwater Oilfield
Exploration Prospects in Africa
Fiscal Terms
A Look at Returns
What We Can Do
A Long-Term Relationship
More Powerful Together: African Energy and American Ingenuity
18 - How We'll Recover From COVID-19
Africa's Ailing Petroleum Industry
One Problem After Another
Businesses in Survival Mode
Time for Treatment
Infusion of Job Opportunities
Approaching Our Energy Transition Wisely
19 - Lights Out: Reforming African Power Generation Monopolies and Transitioning to the Future
Fixing SSA's Power Utilities
The Ugandan and Kenyan Lesson
Transitioning Into the Future
Innovation is Key
What About Big Oil?
Energy—Not Oil and Gas—Companies
Where Do Africans Stand?
20 - Concluding Thoughts
Endnotes
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