West Africa: Issues With an Ecowas Energy Security

7 December 2016
opinion

I have read with interest former Secretary-General of the OPEC Abdalla Salem El-Badri's interesting piece, Security of energy supplies inextricably linked with demand.

That piece, published in the 'G-7 Germany: The Schloss-Emma Summit' of June 2015, has said that questions regarding energy security, often have four ready answers. They are issues of reciprocity of supply and demand of oil, foreseeable time horizons, the universality of oil security across all time zones and seasons, and the need to use the security which oil is supposed to provide to enhance dialogue and cooperation.

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