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Article: Guinea : UPDATE 1-Eq. Guinea to double gas exports within 5 yrs.
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- October 29, 2009
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Byline: manish03
Equatorial Guinea will double its natural gas exports within five years, though the blueprint it is drafting with partners to do so has been delayed for months, a top energy official told Reuters on Wednesday.
"We have the good problem of having more gas in Equatorial Guinea than we thought," Deputy Minister of Mines and Energy Gabriel Obiang Lima said by phone. "We have had to go back and redo all the figures in the master plan."
The tiny coastal country, nestled in one of Africa's most energy-rich areas, wants to become the regional hub for gas exports using domestic supply as well as fuel piped in from neighbouring Nigeria ...