Second African Oil Trade Conference, 14-17 April 1997
Imprint
Geneva, United Nations. 1997
Descript
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SUMMARY
This book contains the proceedings of the Second African Oil Trade Conference, held in Harare, Zimbabwe, in April 1997. It contains all the presentations made at the Conference, as well as its agreed resolutions. The presentations addressed the following issues: petroleum exploration in Uganda and Namibia; business opportunities in Kenya's deregulated oil market; supply and demand trends in Southern Africa; recent developments in the oil sectors of Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali and Zimbabwe; overland transport of oil products in East Africa; domestic oil pricing policies, and protecting the consumer in a deregulated oil market; project and trade finance opportunities in Africa's oil sector; stock control as a tool for better oil financing; the use of futures markets; new approaches to financing the import and export of oil, and financing regional oil trade; the strategic role of information systems; how to implement risk management in African public organizations; commodity-linked financing; and improving the conditions for international financing facilities for the African oil sector
