By Vijay Jayaraj
Nations that are once banished to the edges of the economic discourse is now sprinting towards prosperity, their airways, which are driven by a single, uniform force: energy.
Energy is indispensable. From the huge AI calculation centers in the USA to the Mega scale factories in China, affordable and reliable energy supply make the difference between life and thrive.
Access to domestic energy resources – or the ability to secure imports unlocks a cascade of opportunities: multiplying jobs, infrastructure recordings and governments gain fiscal muscles to invest in their population.
Instead, oil and gas, mocked by Climateelites as relics of a past era, prove to be a new dawn as engines. A cohort of nations sets up a radically different course, which is driven by the relentless pragmatism of the use of hydrocarbons.
Guyana: From darkness to oil -Juggernaut
Guyana was embedded on the South American north coast and was once a subsequent thought in the global business discourse. Today it is the fastest growing economy in the world in which the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2022 switched by amazing 63% and 38% in 2023. It is expected to grow by another 27% this year.
Guyana's growth even leaves the praised “Asian Tiger” – Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. By 2025, analysts will be projecting a still robust expansion of more than 14%, which is powered by the relentless performance of the Stobroek block, 6.6 million hectares of oil reserves in front of the country's Atlantic coast. The Liza Discovery 2015, a 10 billion barrel bonanza, has transformed this nation into an energy power plant of 810,000.
The fiscal wind – in 2024 2.57 billion US dollars – has financed infrastructure -upgrades, health expansions and educational reforms. As reported online, Guyana's Pro Head has quadrupled since 2019, a performance that is unimaginable without oil.
Niger: Africa's pipeline for prosperity
Half a world away, a similar story in the dry vastness of West Africa Skriptt Niger. This internal nation, which has long been known for uranium and subsistence agriculture, is ready to drive an oil boom that could redefine its future.
The key? The Niger-Benin-Pipeline, a 1,212 miles that promises to ferry the Rohöl from the Niger-Agadem-Schrift-Becken to the Atlantic coast. After diplomatic swallowing with Benin was solved in August 2024, production was expected to increase over 110,000 barrels per day (BPD) in the coming years. GDP is predicted as a result.
Senegal: Gas illuminates the way forward
In the west, Senegal joins the energy -oriented renaissance. The Sangomar-Oilfeld, which began production in June 2024, and Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA)-D-Erdgas project, which spreads the border with the Senegal Maauritania border, rewrite the nation's economic game book.
In 2024, the Sangomar field exceeded its original destination and produced 16.9 million barrel crude oil compared to the planned 11.7 million. Since the oil production of more than 100,000 BPD and GTA provides global markets to provide liquid gas (LNG), Senegal GDP growth is expected to reach the highest in Africa in 2025.
Senegal's GDP growth was around 10% in 2024, and energy exports were expected to identify 30% of the state income in 2025. It is crucial that the electricity systems with gas -fired power plants reduce electricity costs and enable industry to thrive.
Côte d'Ivoire: diversification by hydrocarbons
Côte d'Ivoire, which has long been dependent on cocoa and coffee, is created as a calm energy giant in West Africa. The country has exceeded initial estimates for production from its Balein oil and gas field.
Oil production has doubled since 2020 to 60,000 BPD, while natural gas has lured the industry from the entire region with 72% of the country. The country plans to reach 200,000 barrels of oil per day and 450 million cubic feet gas by 2028.
Thanks to the development of Rapid Oil and Gas, Cote d'Ivoire reduced the poverty rate from 55% in 2011 to 37% in 2021 (the latest available data). After more than three times tripled in the next four years, the poverty rate could drop to single -digit digits.
Energy poverty, not climate change, remains the immediate threat to these regions and continue to plague the future of millions of Africans and South Americans. Sun collectors and windmills cannot supply steel mills, factories or cities with electricity.
The governments of Guyana, Niger, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire understand this. They prioritize the livelihood of their citizens against “carbon reduction” targets, which are collected by so -called elites in Brussels or New York.
Their success reveals the emptiness of the net zero dogma and reaffirms a timeless truth: energy levels is the basis of human progress.
This comment was first published on April 1, 2025 in Realclearergy.
Vijay Jayaraj is science and research assistant at the CO2 coalition in Arlington, Virginia. He has an MS in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia and a postgraduate degree in energy management at Robert Gordon University in Great Britain and a Bachelor engineering at Anna University, India.
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