According to a recently published TechSci Research report "Africa Industrial Valves Market By Type, By End User, By Country, Competition Forecast and Opportunities, 2011 - 2021", industrial valves market in Africa is forecast to surpass US$4bn by 2021
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West African nations are flooding Asian markets with crude as Angola becomes top exporter
February 2017 was the largest amount of crude sent from West African oil producers to Asia in the last five year
Lekoil starts continous production at Otakikpo production
Lekoil announced that further to its previous announcement on 8 December 2016, the six kilometre offshore pipeline leading from the storage tanks to the tanker offloading manifold has been completed and commissioned
Nigeria's oil-for-fuel swaps save US$500mn
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) released a statement last week stating that its Direct Sale of Crude Oil and Direct Purchase of Products (DSDP) programme has saved over US$500mn to date
China hits record-breaking amount of West African oil bought in February
Chinas crude oil buying will push its February loadings of West African crude to their highest in at least 13 years, a Reuters survey a showed on 3 February