After so many years of fruitless search for crude oil in the Ghana, in 2007 crude oil has been discovered in commercial quantities at the Jubilee offshore oil field. In fact, the offshore field is claimed to be the biggest find in offshore oilfields in West Africa in recent years. With examples...

Raw material criticality has played an important role in geostrategic thinking, especially since the crisis surrounding the price and supply of rare earths at the beginning of the 2010s. However, once dependency and strategic importance grow too strong, substitution efforts will take place that...