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Extractive Resources and Society

This is an ongoing project focused on the impact of the oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Guinea region - from Angola to Guinea. Since the start of this project in 2003, an ongoing series of roundtable meetings on Equatorial Guinea have occurred - attended by senior government officials, NGOs, companies and the media.

This project held the first ever international conference on São Tomé and Principe, conferences on transparency and oil and meetings on Guinea Bissau, Chad, Cameroon, Mauritania, Sudan and Nigeria, environmental impact and local content. We have also looked at the impact of oil revenues in Africa for poverty reduction - Petroleum, Poverty and Security - and the Chad to Cameroon pipeline project and its impact - The Chad Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project: A non completion report.

In 2007 we commenced a project on the impact of Asian National Oil Companies in Angola and Nigeria and an international conference on the politics of sub-Saharan African energy. In March 2008 we published a paper on China and Angola as part of this project - Angola and China: A Pragmatic Partnership.