Tunisia
Soco Pulls Out
Highly active in Libya, where the group is trying to obtain acreage through Odex, Soco has just sold off its interests in Tunisia to PA Resources.
Gazprom is a state-owned Russian oil company and one of the few Russian commodities giants to have expanded its operations into Africa from its London base. The results have been mixed: its attempts to establish itself in Nigeria and Namibia came to nothing, with its main successes in Africa taking the form of oil trading contracts, in Cameroon in particular.