.The Ethiopian government may take over Petroliam Nasional Bhd.’s oil and gas holdings in the Ogaden region rather than approving a sale to SouthWest Energy (H.K.) Ltd., The Reporter said, citing an unidentified official at the Mines Ministry.
Hong Kong-based SouthWest announced on Oct. 6 that it purchased the oil and gas fields in the arid region where rebels have been fighting the government for more than three decades. In April 2007, the Ogaden National Liberation Front attacked an exploration site operated by China’s Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau, killing nine Chinese workers and 65 Ethiopians.To contact the reporter on this story: William Davison in Addis Ababa via Johannesburg at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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written by Bahir, February 13, 2011
E thiopia criminal dictaor will never ever take over Ogadenia oil and gas because the reason why they stay in ogadenia was just this iol and gas but they will never sale our oil and gas for someone else anyone who try that will be dead or any company this is ogadenia homeland not Ethiopia homeland so the people of ogadenia were deserve this iol and this gas no one else
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