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This article has a long way to go to reach GA, unfortunately
Best regards, Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 02:22, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
The article is NOT expanding the greater context of the situation is Somali. The fact that Somalia does not have a fully functional government that can legally sign contracts with Oil companies should be stated. Also, it should be stated the prospect of OIL is prelonging the suffering of Somali people for warlords are fighting over these resources. This is a BLOOD OIL. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Abdicrm ( talk • contribs) 17:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Puntland isn't a recogonised country. It's a piece of land taken over by a warlords that pretends to be democratic. Somaliland is more democratic. Puntland has no right to sign a deal. The only one who does is the TFG and half vast majority of the Somali people hate them with pure anger don't believe they are the right ones. Adding Oil to the mix is only going to fuel the tradegy of this nation. Oil in Africa has never been a good thing. In fact having Oil is one of the worsting that can happen to a non arab african nation. It will lead to corruption,instability and coups. Add that to Somali a country which barely exists. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.69.77.223 ( talk) 16:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Well first of all. Puntland isn't stable. Their intelligence agents are being killed by people who they are meant to catch. The Islamic Courts Union are walking around there Puntland. Arms are entering the area and they can't even do anything at all. They are right next to the Pirates base yet in the there has only been four attempts to arrest them. Once by Puntland, once by the French and twice by the Islamic Courts. This state in a state is fracturing at this moment. The Islamic Courts have moved in right next to them and they haven't even been able to do anything about it. Somaliland has taken the opportunity to attack them and take some land they claim is there. They denied what happened and when it was revealed to the Somalis in the world who have access to the internet ( a surprisingly large amount for a country in Africa) they said they would take back their land in January. They've failed.
The only reason why they have been "allowed" to go on with the deal is because the TFG is split. The President who used to rule the state wants them to go on with the deal while the Prime minster and the other MPs are against it since it undermines the Transitional government. To cap it all off. Puntland MPs have been stealing money meant to develop their state. They just had an emergency meeting to find out where the money went. Imagine what will happen if there is oil. They would have access to millions of dollars. Do you really think they would improve their record? The oil companies don't care about how money is spent has long has they can extract oil. Look at Nigeria. Furious Stormrage ( talk) 01:38, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
This whole article is almost comically misinformed, exaggerated, one sided and poorly written. I am stunned that someone had the tenacity to nominate this for good article status. TastyCakes ( talk) 04:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Every mention of prospecting for oil brings protests that the companies are in it for their own profit. But that's the way of the world (even if it is a red-flag-waving National Oil Company in its own or an other country). Long before Buntilandi was invented oil companies (AGIP, CONOCO, Sinclair..) searched for oil in that part of the world, found nothing and left, millions of currency units out of pocket. In
the 1950s geophysical prospecting for oil was the major industry in the Somalilands. Who wants Oil in zxzxzxland? The oil companies because that's their business* and whichever politicians can claim to be in charge and worth (though not worthy of) sacks of figurative sugar.
But by then, I'd guess, there had been ten or a dozen unsuccessful concessions in Somalia. Didn't Sinclair, who stayed there the longest, present a minister with a bottle holding their total production from Afgoi #1?-- SilasW ( talk) 21:30, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I think this is very interesting the edit made below, it isn't vandalism at all but a rather revealing little post.
We will give you a brief summary of the legal case that was lodged at the Puntland High Court (Dated 11th December 2007), that has attached copies to the TFG, the Council of Elders, The Puntland Parliament. The case is still in the courts and we would not like to deal much in the details (Please Download Full Document Lodged 2MB).
The case looks at the following main issues:
Dr.Ali Abdullahi was one of the founding fathers of Puntland and the TFG before he fell out with both former Presidents Abdullahi Yusuf of the TFG and Adde Muse of Puntland.He was also a former Presidential candidate and an energy and Mining Management expert.
International companies can be invited latter when Somalia's Federal Government that has International recognition comes out of its political challenges by 2009, when we hope a constitution will be in place. The amounts involved in the case runs into the Billions of Dollars.
It's a horribly written article, I'll have to clean it up. 26oo ( talk) 05:16, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
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The lede says “in Somalia, an autonomous region in northeastern Somalia...” That doesn’t make sense. Trilotat ( talk) 18:54, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
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This article has a long way to go to reach GA, unfortunately
Best regards, Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 02:22, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
The article is NOT expanding the greater context of the situation is Somali. The fact that Somalia does not have a fully functional government that can legally sign contracts with Oil companies should be stated. Also, it should be stated the prospect of OIL is prelonging the suffering of Somali people for warlords are fighting over these resources. This is a BLOOD OIL. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Abdicrm ( talk • contribs) 17:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Puntland isn't a recogonised country. It's a piece of land taken over by a warlords that pretends to be democratic. Somaliland is more democratic. Puntland has no right to sign a deal. The only one who does is the TFG and half vast majority of the Somali people hate them with pure anger don't believe they are the right ones. Adding Oil to the mix is only going to fuel the tradegy of this nation. Oil in Africa has never been a good thing. In fact having Oil is one of the worsting that can happen to a non arab african nation. It will lead to corruption,instability and coups. Add that to Somali a country which barely exists. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.69.77.223 ( talk) 16:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Well first of all. Puntland isn't stable. Their intelligence agents are being killed by people who they are meant to catch. The Islamic Courts Union are walking around there Puntland. Arms are entering the area and they can't even do anything at all. They are right next to the Pirates base yet in the there has only been four attempts to arrest them. Once by Puntland, once by the French and twice by the Islamic Courts. This state in a state is fracturing at this moment. The Islamic Courts have moved in right next to them and they haven't even been able to do anything about it. Somaliland has taken the opportunity to attack them and take some land they claim is there. They denied what happened and when it was revealed to the Somalis in the world who have access to the internet ( a surprisingly large amount for a country in Africa) they said they would take back their land in January. They've failed.
The only reason why they have been "allowed" to go on with the deal is because the TFG is split. The President who used to rule the state wants them to go on with the deal while the Prime minster and the other MPs are against it since it undermines the Transitional government. To cap it all off. Puntland MPs have been stealing money meant to develop their state. They just had an emergency meeting to find out where the money went. Imagine what will happen if there is oil. They would have access to millions of dollars. Do you really think they would improve their record? The oil companies don't care about how money is spent has long has they can extract oil. Look at Nigeria. Furious Stormrage ( talk) 01:38, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
This whole article is almost comically misinformed, exaggerated, one sided and poorly written. I am stunned that someone had the tenacity to nominate this for good article status. TastyCakes ( talk) 04:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Every mention of prospecting for oil brings protests that the companies are in it for their own profit. But that's the way of the world (even if it is a red-flag-waving National Oil Company in its own or an other country). Long before Buntilandi was invented oil companies (AGIP, CONOCO, Sinclair..) searched for oil in that part of the world, found nothing and left, millions of currency units out of pocket. In
the 1950s geophysical prospecting for oil was the major industry in the Somalilands. Who wants Oil in zxzxzxland? The oil companies because that's their business* and whichever politicians can claim to be in charge and worth (though not worthy of) sacks of figurative sugar.
But by then, I'd guess, there had been ten or a dozen unsuccessful concessions in Somalia. Didn't Sinclair, who stayed there the longest, present a minister with a bottle holding their total production from Afgoi #1?-- SilasW ( talk) 21:30, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I think this is very interesting the edit made below, it isn't vandalism at all but a rather revealing little post.
We will give you a brief summary of the legal case that was lodged at the Puntland High Court (Dated 11th December 2007), that has attached copies to the TFG, the Council of Elders, The Puntland Parliament. The case is still in the courts and we would not like to deal much in the details (Please Download Full Document Lodged 2MB).
The case looks at the following main issues:
Dr.Ali Abdullahi was one of the founding fathers of Puntland and the TFG before he fell out with both former Presidents Abdullahi Yusuf of the TFG and Adde Muse of Puntland.He was also a former Presidential candidate and an energy and Mining Management expert.
International companies can be invited latter when Somalia's Federal Government that has International recognition comes out of its political challenges by 2009, when we hope a constitution will be in place. The amounts involved in the case runs into the Billions of Dollars.
It's a horribly written article, I'll have to clean it up. 26oo ( talk) 05:16, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Oil exploration in Puntland/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
Needs cleanup and copyediting before achieving higher class ranking. Beagel ( talk) 15:51, 16 February 2008 (UTC) |
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The lede says “in Somalia, an autonomous region in northeastern Somalia...” That doesn’t make sense. Trilotat ( talk) 18:54, 3 January 2019 (UTC)