TENSIONS LINKED TO THE EXPLOITATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES IN WEST AFRICA: THE CASE OF CÔTE D’IVOIRE AND GHANA ON THE ‘JUBILÉE OIL’ OIL FIELD

Author: Ayenon Seka Fernand

ABSTRACT

Raw material essential to the industry, hydrocarbons are unique in that they generate unrivaled profits from surplus to the volume equal investment industries. This annuity(surplus) creates massive for producing countries and financial flows as well as goods whose oil is causing denote relations between nations and within nations. The exploitation of these natural resources causes many time conflicts between neighboring countries and are often at the root of social unrest or even civil wars in Africa. In regard to neighboring countries competing for hydrocarbon reserves, Côte d’Ivoire and its neighbor Ghana assign each membership of the “Jubilee oil” deposit located to their known border.

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