Somaliland Government signs an agreement with China's National Petroleum Corporation BGP

[Ozaki]

You are conflating two issues.

Let me repeat, no one is expecting any form of political support from China, however economic cooperation is very possible. China's National Petroleum Corporation is state owned, state operated, they came to sign a deal with Somaliland. They are the parent company of the fourth largest company in the world. Large scale projects is something Chinese are very good at, and they have an interest in the region, evident from their latest move in Djibouti. Making use of their expertise in areas we lack is not really all that crazy.

Their internal politics its of no importance to this discussion.

[GalliumerianSlayer]

Nuclear, Solar and Wind energy is the future of Somalia/Somaliland.

[original dervish]

I've been observing s/l for over a decade........nothing has changed domestically or internationally to warrant any optimism.

[Siciid85]

whatever happened to that Muuse Care oil man that Siciid and groupies were braging about years ago loool, this alf leyla wa layla , never ending story.

Ask the Kulmiye government. They are the ones who seem to ruin everything they touch. He was genuinely interested, but of course the political climate in SL leaves no room to do business.

Every politician wants to have his/her hands in the cookie jar

[X.Playa]

Oo waxad la dhilowday eed imika makaanka uGu ruxdaa daarood waa kulmiye miyaa?? waryaa wiilkaagan yar ee afka cas suuqa kala fadhiiso jileeca iyo niicda , waxad ka ogtahay h.y ma jirto meeshan baad la xiiqsan tahay hinaase dumar.

[Maroodijex]

This is part of this agreement. Somaliland is engaging this company in order to get the necessary data which then GENEL ENERGY will buy off from Somaliland and interpret on its end. GENEL will then make a decision based on the result whether they will go ahead with the scheduled drilling of the 3 test sites which was part of the Contract that gave them the two blocks.

http://www.genelenergy.com/operations/e ... omaliland/

"Genel has reached agreement with the Somaliland government on an appropriate structure to allow the acquisition of 2D seismic data to move forward. The data will be acquired as part of a Somaliland government owned speculative 2D seismic acquisition project, the Government contracting with an international seismic contractor. The Company will purchase associated data from the Somaliland Government. Seismic acquisition is expected to start in around year-end 2016."

[Siciid85]

Oo waxad la dhilowday eed imika makaanka uGu ruxdaa daarood waa kulmiye miyaa?? waryaa wiilkaagan yar ee afka cas suuqa kala fadhiiso jileeca iyo niicda , waxad ka ogtahay h.y ma jirto meeshan baad la xiiqsan tahay hinaase dumar.

Wtf are you blabbing about your drunken fool. Does Kulmiye =a qabiil or are they the ruling regime who get the blame when they screw up and the praise when they do something right.

Only in your mind does opposing Kulmiye is equated with qabyaalad. put the bottle down, xaarka iyo urta meesha ka la tag