Somaliland to conduct and publish recent Oil and Gas surveys

[Jacaylbaro]

Hargeisa (QARAN)-The Somaliland minister for Water and Natural Resources, Mudane Qaasim Sheikh Yusuf has stated that his department will soon publish the results of recent seismic surveys conducted in Somaliland.

 

In a press communique issued by the ministry in Hargeisa:-

 

The Somaliland ministry of Water and Natural Resources has been given the mandate to explore and extract the natural resources of the Republic of Somaliland. As a result of this mandate at the end of February 2007 an extensive Seismic Survey was inaugurated to explore the availability and quantity of natural resources within the borders of Somaliland as well as its coastline. The survey was designed to determine that presence of Oil and Natural Gas in Somaliland.

 

The survey will be conducted by the TSG/NOPEC Geophysical Company with the express agreement of the government of Somaliland. The survey was conducted in two parts, an Airomoag/gravity survey from the air, and a Seismic Survey of the sea, in North and East Somaliland/

The aerial survey will begin before the end of December 2007 and will be co-ordinated with a current surveys that have began in the Zeylac-Berbera corridor of Somaliland's Red Sea coast.

In conclusion.

 

It is the conclusion of the Somaliland ministry of Water and Natural Resources along with other invested Departments, such National Defence, Fisheries, Home Affairs, Finance, Civil Aviation and Public Works, as well a the residents of all Somaliland six provinces,that Somaliland's natural resources must be safeguarded and developed for the benefit of the people of Somaliland, the region and the World in an environmentally responsible manner.