The Mpumalanga Parks Board, which manages state-owned reserves in Mpumalanga province, home to most of South Africa's wildlife, has just sold a lease to develop some of its best reserves to the Dolphin Group, a Dubai company, in a deal which also did not go out to tender and was indeed originally kept secret.
Saruni Samburu, though, sits in the middle of the 384sqkm community-owned and -managed Kalama Community Wildlife Conservancy, one of a growing number of privately-owned wildlife reserves in Kenya.
In both cases, had plans to develop state-owned nature reserves been put out to tender, and the deals been made public, each might have taken longer to wrap up, but the resultant deal would probably have been greeted as a triumph in the search for foreign investment.
Some 60% to 80% of fossil fuel reserves owned by listed firms could be classed as unburnable if politicians stick to CO2 emission limits, a report warns.
It certainly behooves us in the meantime, however, to preserve, wherever possible, for our own use domestic and offshore oil reserves owned by American companies and others to which we have reliable access.
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Couple that with the fact that roughly 88 percent of remaining proven oil reserves is owned by foreign governments and you get a very difficult environment in which for American businesses to succeed.
The United States has more oil and gas reserves on federally owned lands than previously thought.
The vast majority of the world's oil reserves are in the hands of government-owned oil companies.
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Although the Saudi authorities do not release much evidence to support their claims of vast oil reserves, engineers from Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil firm, do give talks at conferences and publish papers about their experience of reservoir modelling and management.
Lou Crandall of Wrightson ICAP, a research firm, reckons that half of those reserves have ended up with the American subsidiaries of foreign-owned banks.
Abu Dhabi Media, the company which financed Promised Land, is wholly-owned by the UAE government, which in turn, ranks seventh worldwide in proven natural gas reserves.
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