{"id":236999,"date":"2026-06-21T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-house-seeks-further-tests-on-bassa-oil-discovery\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:36:09","slug":"liberia-house-seeks-further-tests-on-bassa-oil-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-house-seeks-further-tests-on-bassa-oil-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: House Seeks Further Tests On Bassa Oil Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The House of Representatives has called for additional scientific testing into the reported discovery of crude oil in Grand Bassa County, citing a lack of conclusive evidence to confirm the presence of commercially recoverable petroleum resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The recommendation was made by the House Committee on Hydrocarbons following a hearing with officials from the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA) held at the Capitol earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Presenting the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606190273.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has called for additional scientific testing into the reported discovery of crude oil in Grand Bassa County, citing a lack of conclusive evidence to confirm the presence of commercially recoverable petroleum resources. The recommendation was made by the House Committee on Hydrocarbons following a hearing with officials from the Ministry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237000,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,11373,15761,5110,4712,1107,257,4221,8111,254,11560],"class_list":["post-236999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bassa","tag-discovery","tag-house","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tests"],"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\/236999","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}