Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons of Equatorial Guinea, Gabriel Obiang Lima, said Monday in Luanda that the conflict in Ukraine has put an end to the attack on fossil fuels, as the international community has turned to Africa again. , in search of oil and gas.
Gabriel Obiang Lima spoke at a debate on the global oil and gas industry and the opportunities and challenges it poses to African producers, within the framework of the African Oil Congress and Exhibition, which ends tomorrow in Luanda.
Fossil fuels have been under attack, he criticized, noting that “they are good for Africa” and that African countries want to continue to develop these resources, welcoming the fact that African ministers in this sector are speaking “with one voice”. The Guinean minister also said that the priorities of other continents are not necessarily those of Africa, and that the energy transition is not the same in all countries, as are the problems. “Each one has its own definition of problems and what energy transition is”, he stressed, during the speech that was enthusiastically applauded at various times.
“They wanted us to do away with fossil fuels, because it was bad for the world. We said no, we are not going to do that. We are the least responsible for the world’s pollution, how can they ask us to abandon the resource that allowed our countries to develop ”, he asked.
In 2021, he said, “during the pandemic, when no one could travel”, there was an unprecedented attack against fossil fuels, a situation that was reversed after the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine. A “systematic attack” that ended in February, “because there was a conflict in a place very far away, which I won’t even name,” continued Gabriel Lima.
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