rapeseed oil refinery machine in ivory coast

                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
  • Does Ivory Coast have oil?
  • Ivory Coast has struck oil just as much of the developed world has begun to call time on fossil fuels and some financial institutions are reluctant to take carbon-emitting projects on to their balance sheets.
  • Why did Eni invest in Ivory Coast gas?
  • Alessandro Puliti, Eni’s chief operating officer for natural resources, said the Ivorian discovery met the Italian company’s criteria for investment. This was partly because the associated gas could be fed into existing infrastructure that already supplied Ivory Coast with 60 per cent of its electricity, he said.
  • Who discovered 2bn barrels of oil in Abidjan?
  • The Ivorian Society of Refinage in Abidjan. Energy group Eni have discovered up to 2bn barrels of oil off the country’s coast © Legnan Koula/EPA Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.