This week, we publish our Africa Energy Frontiers guide to South Sudan. South Sudan is the world’s newest nation, having gained its independence from Sudan in 2011, and is a mature oil producer with great potential.

This week, we publish our Africa Energy Frontiers guide to Kenya. Kenya is on its way to becoming East Africa’s first oil producer.

This week, we publish our Africa Energy Frontiers guide to Liberia. Liberia’s oil and gas industry is undeveloped and its offshore is underexplored. Still, new regulations and contract regimes have prepared the market for a surge in activity.

This week, we publish our Africa Energy Frontiers guide to Madagascar. Recovered from the political instability of 2009, Madagascar has been positioning itself as a business friendly market for companies interested in frontier oil exploration.

Sierra Leone has overcome civil war and an ebola outbreak to emerge as a standout performer.

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.