Key words: strategy of American energy companies, the energy potential of the
African continent, china's energy strategy in Africa, potential of the African continent,
China's energy strategy in Africa, Africa's role in the energy strategy of
Russia's energy sector.
Africa has tremendous energy potential. It holds about 10 percent of global oil reserves.
The advantage of the African oil reserves, unlike the U.S., China, the North Sea
and Russia reserves, that they are largely unexplored. Due to unstable situation in the
Middle East and in order to diversify oil supplies the U.S. and China are actively cooperating
with the new producer of hydrocarbons - the African continent. In order to
strengthen the geoeconomic and geopolitical position of Russia and for the preservation
of native material and raw material base, it’s practically important for our
country to reveal its own strategy on the continent through comparative analysis.
