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The third biggest economy by GDP in Sub-Saharan Africa and the continent’s second biggest oil producer, Angola has a highly developed and advanced oil industry.

Equatorial Guinea is the third largest oil producer in Sub-Saharan Africa and is promoting a range of industrial projects to gain value from its hydrocarbon resources.

One of Africa’s oldest producers, Gabon’s oil and gas sector has been reinvigorated by new deepwater exploration and a reform of hydrocarbons legislation in 2014.

South Africa’s energy sector is well regulated with huge opportunities in the power sector, shale gas, processing industries and offshore exploration.

Chad has Africa’s 10th largest oil reserves but its output has been slipping in recent years because of maturing fields.

Ethiopia is largely unexplored and its oil and gas industry is undeveloped, but foreign upstream firms have flocked to the country in recent years.

Cameroon is now experiencing an uptick in production, revitalizing a previously declin- ing sector. Dedication to gas development and an increase in oil production in 2014 point to a fresh round of opportunities in this mature province.

The Comoros archipelago borders massive gas discoveries in Tanzania and Mozambique to the west, but oil and gas exploration activity has been limited to date.