Commercializing Natural Gas: Lessons from the Seminar in Nairobi for Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond - Joint UNDP/World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP)
Article from: OGEL 4 (2003), in Digests for Official Reports & Cases
Summary
This report is a summary of the presentations at the workshop, Commercialization of Natural Gas, held in Nairobi from 23 to 26 June 1997, which is a part of the ESMAP effort to promote the development of clean and efficient energy in Africa. The seminar focused on commercialising natural gas in Africa. Africa, like other developing countries, faces difficult hurdles in making a successful commercialisation effort of gas because markets for gas are constrained by the generally low levels of income and industrialisation and by the relatively disjunctive nature of economic activity, ...