{"id":243006,"date":"2026-09-02T20:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-urged-to-maximise-oil-windfall\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T20:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:47:33","slug":"namibia-urged-to-maximise-oil-windfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-urged-to-maximise-oil-windfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Urged to Maximise Oil Windfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Namibia&#8217;s oil and gas industry has reached a point where attention must shift from exploration to ensuring that the country&#8217;s petroleum resources create jobs, support local businesses and deliver lasting benefits for Namibians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">This was the message at the fourth Namibia Oil and Gas Conference, which concluded after three days of discussions under the theme &#8220;From Decision to Dividend: Making Namibia&#8217;s Oil Work for Namibians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">According to a statement issued by Namibia Oil and Gas Content Manager&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609020719.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Namibia&#8217;s oil and gas industry has reached a point where attention must shift from exploration to ensuring that the country&#8217;s petroleum resources create jobs, support local businesses and deliver lasting benefits for Namibians. This was the message at the fourth Namibia Oil and Gas Conference, which concluded after three days of discussions under the theme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243007,"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":[258,256,21038,4706,724,257,4221,254,6206,26541],"class_list":["post-243006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-maximise","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged","tag-windfall"],"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\/243006","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=243006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}