Africa: the Pearl of the U.S. Energy Strategy
Going South? While Russia and the Middle East have remained champions in gas and oil production for decades, the USA is looking for new greenfield projects and partnerships with countries not facing existing political constraints: it is the African market that lies within closer geographical proximity to American consumers what makes imports from that region less costly ... ... to Africa whose incredibly fast urbanization rate already accounts for a greater proportion of middle class than in India or China [1] , opening up wide opportunities for America-African strategic cooperation in energy field. Today the African region ...