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The African Energy Chamber congratulates UTM Offshore and its project and investment partners for signing the Front-End Engineering Design contract for Nigeria’s first FLNG facility.

Representing the biggest oil and gas event to take place in Africa post-COP27, Angola Oil & Gas 2022 reaffirms that there has never been a more pressing time to invest in Angolan oil and gas.

A kettle boiled twice a day by the rich and luxurious family of radical leftist group Extinction Rebellion’s Chloé Farand in the France, uses five times as much electricity as an entire Malian family uses per year.

UTM Offshore to fast-track Nigeria’s gas development and unlock massive reserves for exploitation in the form of LNG into Africa, Europe and Asia for energy security, industrialization and clean cooking.

While the consensus opinion of the western elites may be that oil and gas is a dirty, outdated technology staggering on its last legs, the African Energy Chamber remains grounded in reality.

Vilifying fossil fuels seems to come easily to many people these days. That includes UN Secretary General António Guterres, who recently associated them with war, pollution, and climate catastrophe. The only true path toward peace in the 21st century, he said, is an accelerated renewables-based energy transition, and African gas exploration be damned in the process. In fact, he claimed that exploring for gas and oil anywhere in the world is “delusional.”

When Africans look at the green agenda from Western countries, they see something written by extreme forces that do not factor our concerns especially around natural gas and energy poverty.

Africans at COP27 and beyond need to pay critical attention about Africa’s position as a key source of critical minerals. Climate change and energy poverty are two sides of the same coin.

I arrived Sharm El Sheikh for Cop27 to stickers bearing the circulating arrows emblem of sustainability. The city appears to be in tip-top shape. I listened to the speeches at the opening ceremony of COP27 noting that Africa faces a quandary: The continent is seeking to eradicate energy poverty and create a better future for our people with a known solution that developed countries have exploited for centuries, namely fossil fuels. Yet many of those very countries are now standing in Africa’s way.  

The African Energy Chamber would like to congratulate Dr. Farouk for his reappointment as Secretary General of the APPO.