While land-grabs and exploration for natural gas and renewables continues across the natural landscape, prospecting for a different prize has gradually taken hold in the built environment.

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Equatorial Guinea, which has been issuing lots of prospecting licenses and is seeing its speck of an economy grow at breakneck speed on the back of an oil-exploration boom, could emerge as the region's third-largest producer, with 740, 000 barrels a day by then.

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