Sierra Leone Stakes Next Oil Frontier Claim

African countries have recently started making more and more headlines with their plans to develop local oil and gas reserves despite strong opposition from foreign environmentalist organisations and international lenders. The latest to join the oil and gas club is Sierra Leone. And it has big plans for its hydrocarbons. The small Western African state earlier this month concluded a round of seismic research that it now hopes would lure international oil majors in, after several discoveries that failed to produce commercial volumes of hydrocarbons.…