{"id":193443,"date":"2025-03-13T07:06:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-whose-oil-is-it-controls-and-benefits-in-namibia\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T07:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:06:35","slug":"namibia-whose-oil-is-it-controls-and-benefits-in-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-whose-oil-is-it-controls-and-benefits-in-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Whose Oil Is It? Controls and Benefits in Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em>Oil and gas exploration, an emerging sector in Namibia, is a naturally high-risk investment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">In addition, our country&#8217;s geology can make discovery difficult and expensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Companies can invest huge amounts of money in exploration activities and end up finding no feasible deposits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">As a result, the geological risk can be huge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">In January 2025, oil giant Shell wrote off its US$400 million Namibian offshore oil exploration because of its lack of commercial viability.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.gpt-outer-ad-container.gpt-inread-outer-ad-container.inread-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">In the same month, Chevron&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503120044.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil and gas exploration, an emerging sector in Namibia, is a naturally high-risk investment. In addition, our country&#8217;s geology can make discovery difficult and expensive. Companies can invest huge amounts of money in exploration activities and end up finding no feasible deposits. As a result, the geological risk can be huge. In January 2025, oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6481,23622,4706,724,257,4221,254],"class_list":["post-193443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benefits","tag-controls","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}