DHL set to boost Africa’s oil & energy sector

DHL has announced plans to launch four Oil & Energy Centres of Excellence across Africa during the next twelve months.
 

The centres will be in Cape Town (South Africa), Luanda (Angola), Accra (Ghana – for West Africa) and Mombasa (Kenya – for East Africa).

The centres will offer customers specialist expertise in oil & energy logistics, as the continent is poised to become a global energy powerhouse.

Oil and energy production within Africa grew from 370 million tonnes in 2000 to 459 million tonnes in 2009, and the continent is expected to maintain, if not exceed, this growth rate in the medium-term to reach a production capacity of 7.4 million barrels a day by 2014.

By the second quarter of 2012, DHL’s Oil & Energy Centres of Excellence in Africa will comprise of a team of industry professionals who will consult with, design and implement logistics solutions for oil and energy companies that will allow them to overcome common sector- and region-specific challenges relating to, amongst other factors, diverse customs environments as well as remote production locations.

Sam Ang, DHL Global Forwarding’s CEO for Southeast Asia and head of Oil & Energy for Africa & Asia Pacific, said: "As the only international logistics player present in all African markets for thirty years, we are well-positioned to expand our offering to oil and energy companies who wish to operate in Africa, and transfer industry best practices through DHL’s Oil & Energy Centres of Excellence."

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