{"id":132126,"date":"2024-03-19T21:27:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T21:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2024\/03\/19\/cote-divoire-seeks-opec-membership-after-major-oil-finds-the-north-africa-post\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T21:27:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T21:27:50","slug":"cote-divoire-seeks-opec-membership-after-major-oil-finds-the-north-africa-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2024\/03\/19\/cote-divoire-seeks-opec-membership-after-major-oil-finds-the-north-africa-post\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire seeks OPEC membership after major oil finds \u2013 The North Africa Post"},"content":{"rendered":"
C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire is within the means of assembly the standards to affix the OPEC, the nation\u2019s oil and mining minister amadou Sangafowa Coulibaly introduced.<\/p>\n
This got here few days after ENI mentioned it discovered vital reserves of oil offshore C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, with a particular effectively particularly having as a lot as 1.5 billion barrels of oil equal of potential assets.<\/p>\n
This will likely be ENI\u2019s second large hydrocarbon discovery off the West African nation over the previous few years following on from its play opening Baleine discover that was fast-tracked to first manufacturing in 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf yesterday C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire was simply an importing nation, with these numerous discoveries, we are going to cross, in a really close to time, to that of a web exporter of petroleum merchandise,\u201d the oil minister mentioned in an announcement.<\/p>\n
The Ivorian authorities is planning to make the extractive business the second pillar of the Ivorian financial system after agriculture, he mentioned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n