Somalilandsun: Somaliland is optimistic that a search for oil by Genel Energy Plc (GENL), run by former BP Plc Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, will find commercial quantities of crude, Mines and Energy Minister Hussein Abdi Dualeh said. The company has completed about 95 percent of an airborne geophysical study and plans to conduct a two-dimensional survey of a 4,000-kilometer (2,485-mile) area in the semi-autonomous northern Somali region, Dualeh said in an interview in Ankara, the Turkish capital. Patrick D'Ancona, a spokesman for London-based Genel, declined to comment beyond its annual results statement issued on Feb. 28. The "initial map shows big, promising basins," Dualeh said, adding that Genel hasn't interpreted all of the data yet. "That does not mean there is oil there. There is still a lot of work to do: 2-D seismic, exploratory drilling, a lot of processes. It looks promising." The hunt to develop energy resources in East Africa has gained pace since Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC) made the decade's biggest natural gas discovery off the coast of Mozambique. Finds in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia have also raised the region's energy profile. Demand in China and India helped spark a bidding war last year between Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and Thailand's PTT Exploration & Production Pcl (PTTEP) for AnadEng Duale Genel to find harvest inexaustable quantities of crudearko's partner Cove Energy Plc. Licensed Blocks Somaliland has licensed one-third of its oil fields where the Anglo-Turkish company Genel operates in five blocks, with plans to drill a first well by mid-2014, said Dualeh. Ophir Energy Plc (OPHR) of the U.K. is also in negotiations for a 2-D seismic contract and may start drilling in 2015, he said. "It is a no brainer, there is oil" said Dualeh. "It is a matter of finding commercial qualities." Somalia, particularly its northern regions of Somaliland and Puntland are a "southward extension of the lucrative geologic framework of the Arabian Gulf" that includes Saudi Arabia, according to Osman Salad Hersi, an associate geology professor at the University of Regina in Canada. Saudi Arabia is the world's biggest oil producer. "The country, Somalia, including Somaliland, can potentially be the Saudi Arabia of East Africa," Hersi said in an e-mailed response to questions. "But the instability of the country within the past 30 years or so hindered any meaningful hydrocarbon exploration." No Recognition Somalia has been wracked by more than two decades of civil war since the fall of Mohamed Siad Barre's dictatorship in 1991. Somaliland declared independence after Barre was removed from office and the former British protectorate has yet to gain recognition as a sovereign nation by any other country or foreign institution. "Lack of international recognition for their unilateral secession and not being part of the internationally-recognized Federal Somalia of Mogadishu puts Somaliland in limbo," said Hersi. Somaliland is negotiating with other unidentified international oil companies hoping to sign exploration contracts in 2013. Cnooc Ltd. (883), the state-owned Chinese oil company, and Canadian and Australian companies are already forging oil deals with the Somali government and that of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland. "We have not had any active exploration on such a scale until now," said Dualeh. "Genel is really leading the charge in really putting together a very aggressive big exploration campaign to really evaluate the potential of Somaliland." Hayward resigned from BP, Europe's second-biggest energy company, in October 2010 following the Gulf of Mexico disaster. He teamed up with financier Nathaniel Rothschild to create Vallares Plc, a shell company that raised 1.33 billion pounds ($1.98 billion) through an initial public offering in London in June 2011. Vallares agreed to merge with Genel in September 2011. Shares in Genel fell less than 0.1 percent to 794.50 pence in London yesterday. The stock has gained 1.9 percent so far this year. Source: http://www.businessweek.com

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^^ But that it self will be a mess that contradicts that Somalia is a federal republic if Southern Mudug galguduud hiiraan those 3 region will be directly administrated by xamar including xamar its self banadir 4 regions. How does that work you cannot have 2 systems in one country. It will be chaos.The problem is HAG cannot share a state because they are not clan orientated they are regional people for instance every HAG will claim to be from xamar while some are from galguduud or middle shabelle. For the Puntlanders its different they had the Maguartania sultanate they just re named it Puntland they identify them selves first with their clan than the regions for HAG its different. The Jubbalanders have the same problem have never shared a state together well under British east Africa but even back than they never agreed also lots of change demographically the past 100 years there.

Somalia;926974 wrote: By this logic, everyone can double their regions, is this a race or something, Puntland would have 3 states then :eek: Xaaji are you suggesting special rules for some, in 2013, when we are moving forward, ceeb caleyk :eek: Than it will be basically impossible to create a federal state in galguduud and mudug where the HAG sub clans dominate since they cannot share a state it needs to be divided. Somalia not every one is like Puntland. They cannot unite under one federal state so why not create two more regions. why would that hurt you. Dont you want federalism?

Xiinfanin what ever happens in Somalia concerns me,federalism and Somaliland is an oxymoron no one in Somaliland calls for federalism in Somaliland we have a centralized goverment in hargeisa and every one is happy.

Its not Xenophobia no one hates them they just have to stay with in their borders and with in their so called oromia we already lost so many districts to them the past 2 decades there were several clashes in the early 90s in diredawa. The TPLF than placed diredawa outside the Somali region and oromia region and its administrated separately currently. Also the southern regions they are busy pushing further with their cattle's inside the Somali territory. Maalin kalaad garan doontaan xaajigu run bu sheegey baad odhan doontaan.

There is never deep love for anything its all about interests wax Yahuud iyo maraykan iyo danish iyo ruush lugu kala jeclaado ma jiraan eeh wa dano ay dalalku ay leeyihin oo ay raban inay dantooda ku fushaadaan markasay xidhiidh la yeeshan. Yahuudu Somalida , maxay u dhintay horta aynu nacna be ah , nafar Somali ah horta ma dileen. Yahuudu wabay caawiyeen Somalia, iyagu gacan siinyaa taliyaasha iyo ciidamada kenya oo ay aad u tababareen siday u jabin lahayeen shabaab. Waliga cidna lama naco cidna lama jeclaado dantada uun ba la eegta.

When it comes to forming federal states its better to divided galguduud into two regions than they will fulfill the criteria of forming a federal state the same with hiiraan , hiiraan needs to be divided to into 2 regions if that happened than reer hiiraan can have their federal state to. The Parliament just needs to approve more regions only for those 2 regions. Since the rest of the country is pretty much fine with its regions.

Its still not enough galguduud and half of Mudug cant still not be a federal state, hiiraan doesn't want anything to do with Galguduud. They want to divide hiiraan into 2. By the way ASWJ joined the goverment officially ximan iyo xeeb to they are officially part of the culusow foundation

The galmudug clan cannot unite with the Puntlanders since there is bad blood between those 2 , they cannot unite with their kin in galguduud because they had many clan clashes the past 22 years. Its going to be very difficult unless mudug people have a proper reconciliation conference in galkacyo and unite under one admin. And maybe than galguduud can join to than they have 2 regions.

Well Somaliland will do everything to secure their national interests in the region and beyond the region, i think we should not let emotions interrupt the policies of Somaliland. If Somaliland can have dialogue after 21 years with the rivals next door, than i am sure they can have have talks with any one including the Jewish state.

Well said Africaown, eventhough wadani has lots of supporters in Somaliland.

I am not anti semitic i have nothing against Israeli people or people of Jewish ancestry, but to point out the hypocrisy of Zionist is not a major sin you know as for the towelheads they are not all bad ofcourse some of their interest conflict with ours hence why we cannot be friends with them Egypt Saudi Arabia Libiya and all the others are useless arab states. So we could care less about them but the others we wish to have good relations with those nobles from Kuwait and UAE,We should not generalize them all thats all i am saying.

Not all arabs dislike Somaliland just the Saudis and Egyptians, the Kuwaitis and UAE are very noble Arabs. The Egyptians and Saudis have deep seated hatred for Somaliland. As for the isrealis , as President Siilaanyo would say tallo qaran baanu ka yeeleynayna:D

Showqi;926904 wrote: Xaaji, do you need konfurians help? :D

The Somalis must promote their distinct authentic culture traditions and language in songs and folkore dances and poetry. Even if they have to send 500 teachers from Somaliland to go to the border regions where Somalis border oromos or Somali galbeed teachers from the interior of the Somali galbeed. The most effective way to deal with this problem is to divide the gallas is if we divide them into 3 sections of separate identities the borana who have lots of admixture with southern bantus in jimma. The eastern oromos arsi and eastern hararge as one group, and the barento oromos tulamo who are shewans admixtre with amharas tulamo northern shewa and bareento in western oromo who are heavily intermixed with Amharas you will categorize them under their amhara masters divided into 3. Thats the best way to stop their expansion because those in the north will expand north and will be with their amhara masters, and those in the south will assimilate in the omo ethnic groups and nilotics. We just have to deal with western hararge oromos the arsis. And they are not that much if we follow my plan the expansion can be stopped our ancestors kept them at bay i am sure we can do it to and today we are more advanced.

Exactly as long as the gallas are pushed further south of diredawa into west Hararge i am happy Somalis from NFD can come or those from berbera or those from qalaafe and goday for all i care. As long as the gallas are pushed back. Balayada oromada breed like rabbits.

Haatu;926884 wrote: I doubt that. I'm pretty sure as the country started to modernise the sultanate that had the most natural resources would've started to dominate. Whoever has the resources has the cash, and whoever has the cash has the power. I dont think so it would just like something what we have today, no clear winner. it was not possible for the maguartania sultans to take over the southern Somalis. Eventhough they tried to use Sicid barqash and rifles from oman. But still Sharmarke ali salih bashe allied to the turks of Somaliland was more successful he dominated the entire eastern awdal region some what 50 years before British came to our shores. But he could not dominate the jesus tribes down south nor the hararis who had their separate emir. Much of the Gulady sultanate was divided because of sub clanish politics with in the center eastern Somaliland. Garaad wiilwaal and his men were very comfortable in jigjiga and were only busy harassing the jaarso and smaller oromo clans. Actually dominating each other would have created more conflicts, thats why till the day of today we still have no clear winner of the civil war, and 4.5 is used as a compromise.

Not true no sultanate was above the other or could defeat the other, just as today no one still won the civil war we had no mechanism or political culture based on equal Somali nationhood. We started promoting Pan Somalism in 1930s thats yesterday. Never before that there was never one Somali tribe who were the aristocrats of the Somali people. The state it self is an alien concept according to Somalis we rather have not a goverment specially the Koonfurians. We view the state as something stands in our way but sometimes we use it to dominate other tribes and when the tables are turned we move further apart.

The Germans had a structured goverment for centuries we didn't thus that made them a nation they had the whole mechanism of German nationalism the Somalis didn't Carolingian dynasty where Louis the German ruled in the 9th century even though there was no Germany , he was a german in that dynasty and controlled parts of what is today Germany and eastern France after the fall of the roman empire the German tribes were fighting for their own place and there were many royals who found themselves in different dynasties.And than we had conrad the 3rd who is a descendant of lous the german on his maternal side who united more german tribes under the Hohenstaufen kingdom actually from today's austria. But the germans their rivals the french were more organized than them and didn't allow them to have a kingdom of german inhabbitants. Something Somalis never had we didn't had a rival who stopped us from being a state before 1960 remove the 70 year Colonialism before that why didn't we had a structured state of governance why weren't we a nation. Every one was living in his own little turf and was a Somali on his own terms. We never felt that we were a nation or were one nation. That happened in the 1930s and 1940s, and Somali nationalism wasn't even based on one countries but 5 separate parts , the question i ask is why didn't we organize our selves as Somalis before 1884? The Germans did and they formed a state a well governed state in the late 17 century led by Germans and they governed Germans with German laws.

I dont mind other Somalis in Diredawa i some how i think the Somaligalbeedians are very close to each other and share a common history some how. I am not worried about the Somalis, i am more worried about the gallas.

Haatu i am more Somali than any of you i know the exact meaning of Somali and what it stands for many of the farodhoqayaals have no clue they just heard the word Somali. Ereyga Somali 123 tudhuc oo gabay baan ka tirin kara. ii sheeg ninka taa samayn kara. Now lets go back to Somalinimo we still have no clear definition what Somalinimo is we know Somali , but not Somalinimo , aniga awoowgay Suldaanka toga herer yaalay, he was not just a Somali , because he allowed his kingdom inu mid baydhabo joogo inu wax ku yeesho. Suldaankayagu ama awoowgay waligay ma arkin dadkaas meel ay joogaan iyo masajid ay ka eedamayaan xita. We were not a nation, were Somali tribes masses nomads and farodhoqayaals who spoke the Somali language but we didn't share a nation the first time we shared a nation was in 1960.

Garaad wiilwaal the defeater of the galla peasants the land will be protected from the intruders , we will not allow oromos to freely roam in the Somali galbeed region. Somalis were the one who brought islam to the oromos they were fire worshipers before we Muslimized them. The land belongs to the Somalis. There is no such thing as original owners.Oromos own nothing

Kuwaa dhag ha u dhagin, the gallas shall be defeated, these people dont know what they are talking about this threat is serious. Only people who have no clue what they are talking about will utter those words.