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Coastline Exploration tests Africa’s final oil frontier in offshore Somalia


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Issue 471 - 30 Oct 2022 - By John Hamilton | 5 minute read

After a nine-year struggle, including a UK Serious Fraud Office investigation, the backers of Coastline Exploration have secured the chance to open up one of the world’s last unexplored oil frontiers, where above-ground challenges could still be more difficult than the subsea drilling, writes John Hamilton.

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