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    Nyasa Times: Malawi Laws Breached in Oil Search, Says Attorney General

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The Malawian attorney general Kalenkeni Kaphale has said that Rak Gas, Pacific Oil and Hamra Oil breached the country's laws when awarded exploration licences

by: Erica Mills

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Press Notes, Africa

Nyasa Times: Malawi Laws Breached in Oil Search, Says Attorney General

The three companies controlling five of the six oil and gas exploration blocks – Rak Gas, Pacific Oil and Hamra Oil Holdings Limited -are controlled by one group designed to get a Lions share of the oil blocks by using any trick in or outside the book, Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale has noted in legal opinion to the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining.

Kaphale says the country's laws were breached in the award of the now suspended oil and gas exploration licences in Lake Malawi and other parts of the country.

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