Liberia: Big Year for West Africa's New Oil Province

May 28, 2014 | Petroleum Economist
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FIVE years ago, a new interpretation of West Africa's petroleum geology suggested the deep waters lying off Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana could emerge as a world-class oil province. Extending nearly 1,500 km from west to east, the lightly-drilled West African Transform Margin - an area between two tectonic plates - had been shown to hold oil at both extremes, but in complicated structures.