The Energy Cluster (Oil, Gas and Coal)

Background

As at March 2009, there are 27 oil and gas-producing African countries with proven reserves, collectively holding 9 percent of the world’s total crude oil reserves and accounting for about 12 percent of global output.

Furthermore, Africa holds 8 percent of the world’s natural gas reserves and accounts for 10 percent of its production.

North Africa is the continent’s leading sub-regional producer, followed by Central, West, Southern and East Africa respectively.

About the B&M Energy Cluster

The B&M Energy Cluster is a highly specialized research group of B&M analysts that provides clients with timely analysis on political, economic, security and social developments affecting the production and supply of oil, gas and coal (by all producing countries), and forecasts the impact of these developments on a client’s bottom-line.

The Applications for Business and Investment

The Energy Cluster analysts help clients incorporate political risk management into their plans for business in Africa, especially at the point of entry and expansion. Our flexible research model and pioneering AfriRisk Index©, the first comparative country risk index modeled to monitor, measure, and forecast political, economic, social, and security risks unique to Africa, can be adapted to track categories of risks prevalent in the energy sector in Africa and pertinent to a client’s investment plans, including the risk of expropriation and vandalism. 

For more information, please contact the Energy Cluster (EC) directly at energy@bmconsultancy.net

Energy Cluster Analysts

Our analysts are experts on the oil, gas and coal industries, as well as on general African politics, history and business, possessing the requisite multinational language skills.

They monitor all developments affecting the energy sector in Africa, including those occurring within and outside of the continent.

The cluster is supported by field research analysts and on-the-ground monitors based in several key producing countries, strategically positioned to help our clients navigate and manage the day-to-day political, security and social risks of doing business on the ground in Africa.

The Space

B&M’s Energy Cluster conducts its research on a continental, sub-regional, national, provincial, municipal, and industry level.

It covers all 34 oil and gas-rich and 14 coal-producing countries individually and collectively as members of various inter-governmental producers’ unions, including the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

Energy Cluster analysts work in close collaboration with B&M’s regional and geographic research groups to provide clients with insightful comparative analysis of the energy sector across multiple regions.

Commodities Covered

Coal
Gas
Crude Oil

Coverage Area

Oil and Gas (34 Countries and Territories)

Algeria
Angola
Benin
Cameroon
Central African Republic (CAR)
Chad
Côte d’Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Ghana
Libya
Madagascar
Mauritania
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)
Rwanda
São Tomé and Príncipe
Somalia
Senegal
Sierra Leone
South Africa
Sudan
Tanzania
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara
Zambia

Coal (14 Countries)

Algeria
Botswana
Central African Republic (CAR)
Congo-Kinshasa
Egypt
Malawi
Mozambique
Niger
Nigeria
South Africa
Swaziland
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Common Research Topics:

The impact of theft, vandalism and militancy in the Niger Delta (Nigeria) and other African oil and gas producing regions.

Economic and political volatility in highly unstable oil and gas producing countries like Congo-Kinshasa and Sudan. The likelihood of contagion from ongoing instability in such countries.    

The impact of global oil and gas price fluctuations on political and economic stability especially in countries highly dependent on fossil fuel export revenue, which account for more than 90 percent of the export earnings for Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, Libya and Nigeria.

For more information, please contact the Energy Cluster (EC) directly at energy@bmconsultancy.net