{"id":204322,"date":"2025-08-09T15:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-shell-still-has-hopes-for-namibia\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T15:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:24:54","slug":"namibia-shell-still-has-hopes-for-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-shell-still-has-hopes-for-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Shell Still Has Hopes for Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>Shell says it remains committed to offshore exploration in Namibia, as industry stakeholders raise concerns over local exclusion and long-term investment conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The company says it will continue exploring in Namibia through PEL 39 in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;This activity reflects Shell&#8217;s continued commitment to responsibly exploring Namibia&#8217;s offshore potential in close partnership with QatarEnergy and the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor),&#8221; Shell says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Shell chief executive Wael Sawan says&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508070050.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>Shell says it remains committed to offshore exploration in Namibia, as industry stakeholders raise concerns over local exclusion and long-term investment conditions. The company says it will continue exploring in Namibia through PEL 39 in 2026. &#8220;This activity reflects Shell&#8217;s continued commitment to responsibly exploring Namibia&#8217;s offshore potential in close partnership with QatarEnergy and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,10002,4706,724,257,21743,254],"class_list":["post-204322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-hopes","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-shell","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/204322","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=204322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}