Namibia is a country of 3m people in south-west Africa. TotalEnergies hopes to drill for oil in waters 3km deep, some 300km offshore. A potential $10bn investment decision is pending, with production targeted for 2029. Other firms are also exploring, though the gassiness of the field and the low permeability of the rock mean extraction could be slow. Politics is fairly free compared with many of the continent's oil-producing states.
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