Press Release: MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERAL RESOURCES

[Che -Guevara]

At the end of meeting, the Minister discussed with the State Department, and the IOC the issues of small hunting oil companies, overlapping prior concessions, signing illegal contracts with non-representative actors which adding fire to local conflicts, environmental degradation, clan hostilities and undermining the sovereignty of the country.

 

These small companies are destabilizing the country and destroying the international community’s effort to build the peace and the security of the country. A case in point is the Norwegian Company (DNO), which is planning to introduce armed militiamen in areas already in conflict and thereby stoking old feuds which resulted internal displacement and harming the innocent and the most vulnerable people.

 

Click the link below for the entire document

 

 

http://www.wardheernews.com/ministry-petroleum-mineral-resources/

[Mooge]

I can't see the link niyoow.

[Che -Guevara]

Posted another link, check again.

[Che -Guevara]

Somali Government on DNO

 

http://boramanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10550&catid=34&Itemid=53

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SOMALIA ACCUSES NORWEGIAN OIL EXPLORER DNO OF DESTABILISING COUNTRY

September 3, 2014

 

Norwegian oil company DNO and other small explorers are destabilising Somalia, the African country’s petroleum ministry said on Wednesday, warning it may lodge complaints against these firms to the United Nations Security Council.

 

DNO has been prospecting for oil in Somaliland, a break-away territory of Somalia. The company did not respond to telephone and email requests for comment but in July a senior official said DNO would not engage in any activities that threaten peace in Somaliland.

 

Somalia has been riven by conflict for more than two decades as rival warlords and Islamist militants have fought for control of the Horn of Africa country.

 

The Somali Petroleum ministry said companies signing overlapping oil contracts and striking deals with regional governments were “adding fire to conflicts”.

 

“These small companies are destabilising the country and destroying the international community’s effort to build the peace and the security of the country,” it added.

 

The ministry in a statement singled out DNO, saying the company is “planning to introduce armed militiamen in areas already in conflict and thereby stoking old feuds which resulted in internal displacement and harming the innocent and the most vulnerable people”.

 

The ministry did not provide further details or any proof for its accusations.

 

“We are warning those companies that the Somali government will lodge complaints with their respective countries and the United Nations Security Council,” the ministry added.

 

Around a dozen companies, including many multinational oil and gas majors, had licenses to explore Somalia before 1991, but since then Somaliland and other regional authorities have granted their own licenses for the same blocks.

 

Somali officials last months met representatives of ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and BP for the first time since 1991, the ministry said.

 

The government said it wanted the oil majors to provide a timeline for their return to Somalia.

 

East Africa is rapidly emerging as an exciting oil and gas province after discoveries in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique.

 

But U.N. monitors in July warned Western commercial oil exploration in disputed areas of Somalia and discrepancies over which authorities can issue licenses to companies could spark further conflict in the African nation.

 

Source: Reuters

[Holac]

The President and the Parliament Speaker are both working with the Norwegians who are exploiting all this.

[Che -Guevara]

Misplaced priorities that create unnecessary headaches!

[burahadeer]

[[[[[somali officials last months met representatives of ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and BP for the first time since 1991, the ministry said]]]]

 

 

 

these r the companies so called Somali officials working for and backed by Britain and the US.

Its all about money and certainly ignites anotha round of civil war as a single admin in Mogadishu backed by big oil companies who lost in both Puntland and Somaliland tries to impose its will on others.Strangely enough the biggest clan in and around Mogadishu can only be elected president...the likes of Sharif & Hassan Sheikh engineered by the DEMOCRATIC west in what they term as inclusive gov't,which means the west also included as they run the show.That part of the Somali sea given to Kenya by the west is a non issue and not mentioned by them.

[Ismahaan]

Press realease waxba tari mayo we need to know the fact because as brother Holac said Jawari and Hassan are supporting the Norwegian on this matter.

[Gheelle.T]

Ma socon karnee, ma roornaa camal waaye tan.

[Adam]

Keep it up boys the price of miira has come down so low that even the old siyadest are popping up with makeshift Blue flag yelling Abo Siyad Mama Khadiija Kofiyaad Gaduud come and rescuue us. I say the best Siyadist is a dead Siyadest. However on this minister of propoganda press release Good to see ubaxi kacaanka hopes lifted just for sec.