Africa Oil Boom on Hold as Prices Spur Explorer Caution: Energy

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Africa’s oil and gas boom is in jeopardy.

The dash for resources that saw explorers invest billions of dollars to tap promising oil fields from Ghana on the west coast to Tanzania on the east, is stalling as the global drop in crude prices pushes drillers to reconsider the high costs of exploration on the African continent.