Namibian Exploration Poised to Stimulate Oil Boom
On the back of major oil and gas discoveries in recent years, Namibia’s upstream oil and gas sector is on the precipice of rapid transformation. Significant discoveries made in the southern African country’s Orange Basin in 2022 and 2023 – which include the Graff-1, Venus-1, and Jonker-1X exploration projects –, compounded by favorable fiscal incentives, have attracted oil and gas supermajors including TotalEnergies, Shell, Chevron and ExxonMobil, as well as multinational energy corporations such as
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