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Article

8 Feb 2012

Author:
Global Witness

[PDF] Rigged? The scramble for Africa's oil, gas and minerals

The intensifying competition for commercial access to the world’s remaining deposits of oil, gas and minerals brings with it a serious risk of exacerbating corruption and violent conflict. Such corruption can prop up autocratic governments that keep their people in poverty while enriching elites and the international companies that are willing to do business with them...This report is underpinned by a simple truth: the scramble for oil and minerals has often been hugely destructive in poor countries...[refers to Baker Hughes, Sonangol, Panalpina World Transport, Kellogg Brown and Root, Halliburton, Paradigm B.V., Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Shell, Snamprogetti (part of Eni), Technip S.A.,ABB Vecto Gray, ABB Vetco Gray UK, Willbros Group, Transocean, Tidewater Marine International, Sociedade de Hidrocarbonetos de Angola, Grupo Gema, Norsk Hydro (now part of Statoil), Sociedade Petrolífera Angolana (Somoil), Geminas, Cobalt International Energy, Goldman Sachs, Alper Oil, Nazaki Oil & Gas, Abalone Investments, Statoil, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, Sinopec, Marathon, China Sonangol, Starcrest Energy, Conoil Producing, New Tigerhead PSTI (joint venture between PSTI & New Tigerhead), PSTI, New Tigerhead Nigeria, MPR, TransCorp, Addax Petroleum (part of Sinopec), Sodimico, First Quantum, Gécamines, Glencore, Caprikat, Foxwhelp, Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation]