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sustainable growth
Introduction
Africa is on an upward growth curve, and Africas growth
is both real and sustainable. Its growth is underpinned by a
longer term process of social, political and economic reform
that has occurred across much of the continent since the end
of the Cold War and the Apartheid era; a period during which
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regulatory and legal systems strengthened, and many African
economies opened up to international trade and investment.
Widespread reform has resulted in an ever six countries Nigeria, Libya, Algeria,
improving business environment, and Angola (oil), Sudan (oil) and Egypt
this, together with other factors, such as (gas) there have been ever-increasing
the commodities boom and increasing discoveries of new oil and gas (for
infrastructure investment, has contributed example, in Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique
to a doubling of economic output over the Yf\M_Yf\Y!Yf\hjgkh][l]\]d\kaf
past decade. During this period, a number many countries (including Sierra Leone,
of African economies have recorded Mali and Kenya).
impressive growth rates. For example, nine
It is therefore not too surprising that
African economies were among the 20
investors are optimistic about the
fastest growing economies in the world
potential for growth in the African oil and
in the period 20092013, according to
gas sector. While there are, in Africa, as
the International Monetary Fund (IMF).1
elsewhere, risks some fragile regimes,
Most African economies proved resilient
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rebounding very strongly from a slight
are commensurately high. And economic
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slowdown in 2009 to grow, according to
growth, expanding populations, and the
IMF forecasts, on average by more than 6%
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and social institutions will all have positive
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The African oil and gas kh][a[Yddq$`Yn]hdYq]\YfaehgjlYfljgd] the African region. In addition, it is equally
landscape 4 in this growth. African countries continue important to note that, by-and-large, many
to increase their production of oil and/ African economies are resource and/or
Looking forward:
or gas; revenues from higher prices and commodity-dependent, and as such, oil
prospects,opportunities the investment that new discoveries are and natural gas development will continue
and challenges 8 attracting, have made a key contribution to play a vital role in many African
to growth and developmental initiatives. countries and in the region as a whole.
How can EY help? 10 While the majority of reserves and
production remain concentrated in
Advanced economies
Middle East
Africa
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Total natural gas production (including marketed, re-injected, Production is highly concentrated for both oil and natural gas
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while marketed production of African gas in 2012 was estimated at than 86% of the regions oil production and more than 90% of
about 8.4 tcf. the regions gas production. However, despite current levels of
concentration, 23 African countries were producers of oil and/or
African natural gas production gas in 2012, and oil and gas will be a key driver of growth across
much of Africa going forward. There are ever-increasing discoveries
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of new oil and gas (for example, in Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique,
14 Kenya and Uganda) and bright prospects are seen for many other
countries (including Sierra Leone, Morocco, Gabon, Cte dIvoire,
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Before the Libyan production curtailments, African oil production
8 had been growing steadily over the past decade. Conventional
forecasts see African oil supply growth continuing over the next
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25 years, albeit more slowly than it had recently with forecast
4 ranges of growth over the period of between 0.5 and 2.0 million
b/d. African natural gas supply has similarly grown strongly in the
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recent decade, and forecasts of supply growth are dramatically
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6 | African oil and gas: driving sustainable growth 3. US Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration, international energy
database, accessed 15 January 2014; International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2013,
November 2013; and US Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration, International
Energy Outlook 2013, July 2013.
As yet further evidence of Africas tremendous potential, the Other oil and gas activity
International Energy Agency (IEA) in its most-recent World Energy
Outlook, expects that more than US$2.2 trillion will need to be Accompanying the sustained growth in the upstream segment of
invested in African oil and natural gas supply infrastructure over the the African oil and gas industry is strong growth in the associated
20132035 period an average of almost US$100 billion per year, midstream and downstream infrastructure parts of the
more than the IEA expects will be invested in the Middle East, the business terminals, storage capacity and, most critically, pipelines
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where new production is land-locked such as in the case of
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companies, particularly the Italian and French majors, ENI and Total according to estimates from the International Energy Agency (IEA),
SA, both of which have long and deep relationships in the region. the regions crude distillation unit (CDU) capacity is expected to
The continents new frontiers have however, been largely driven increase by about 10% in the period to 2017, with investments by
by the active mid-sized and smaller regional independents. We are Chinese investors dominating the proposed expansions. Typically
seeing increasing broader interest by the major companies and in af]p[`Yf_]^gjY[[]kklgnYjagmkmhklj]Yehjgb][lk$;`af]k]jek
particular, by the big Asian NOCs. have been investing in infrastructure developments across a wide
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African drilling activity accounts for a relatively small portion of the and have been proposed in Egypt, Sudan and Nigeria.5 In addition,
global industry total typically ranging between 47% of the global Chinas CNOOC is one of the partners (with Tullow and Total SA)
total. As measured by drilling rig activity, interest in African oil and afl`]hjghgk]\f]oj]f]jqafM_Yf\Y$o`a[`oaddhjg[]kkl`]
gas broadly declined from the early-1980s until the mid-1990s, countrys new crude oil production.6
broadly paralleling the global trend as well. Interest picked up in Also notable in the African oil downstream is the restructuring
the mid-1990s only to slide once again in the late-1990s. However, l`Ylakmf\]joYqafl`]j]faf_Yf\eYjc]laf_k]_e]flk$oal`l`]
beginning in late-1999 drilling activity has increased fairly steadily, large international, integrated companies (i.e., ExxonMobil, Royal
except for the brief, but sharp downturn following the collapse of oil Dutch Shell, BP, Chevron and Total SA) each divesting parts of their
and gas prices in late-2008. As of the end of 2013, Baker Hughes \gofklj]Yef]logjcaf9^ja[Y$af[dm\af_kge]j]faf_afl]j]klk$
reported 138 active rotary rigs in Africa, out of a global total of as well as some storage, retail and marketing assets. Buyers of
3478 rigs. Rig activity in Africa is dominated by land drilling, but in these assets have included local/regional petroleum marketing
recent years, offshore activity has notably increased, particularly companies, such as South Africas Engen Petroleum, Vivo Energy
off West Africa. and Kenyas Kenol, as well as international trading companies, such
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Oil and gas drilling in Africa like Indias Essar Oil and South Koreas SK Energy.
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November 2013. in Albertine Graben, 6 June 2011
The sub-region also includes a number of smaller producers whose East African deepwater, with more than 150 tcf of gas resources
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ascendency, with a few recent big successes that may bode well potentially support as many as 24 LNG trains.
for the future. Notably, Equatorial Guinea hopes to leverage the East African onshore with some preliminary discoveries in Uganda
Marathon-led discoveries and developments into rapid economic and Kenya, the broad Kenya-Ethiopia Rift Valley is thought to hold
growth, while the Anadarko/Tullow success in Ghanas Jubilee area big prospects
will transform the countrys oil and gas industry. These successes
are also thought to bode well for neighboring developments in the
West African/Atlantic Transform Margin in offshore Sierra Leone,
Cote dIvoire and, potentially, Liberia.
Emerging exploration hot spots in this sub-region include:
The West African transform margin mentioned above, again
building on the Jubilee success
The Angola and Gabon pre-salt prospects, which are seen as
analogues to the notable Brazilian pre-salt discoveries. In terms
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slightly more attractive.
Algeria
Libya
Egypt
Western Sahara
Ethiopia
dlvoire Central African
Sierra Leone Republic Uganda
Cameroon
Togo Benin Somalia
Liberia Equatorial Guinea
Sao Tome Congo Kenya
Gabon Democratic
Republic of Congo
Rwanda Seychelles
Tanzania
Burundi
Comoros
Angola
Malawi
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Reunion
Swaziland
Lesotho
South Africa