Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:08:19 +0000 By Buumba Chimbulu DICOVERY of oil can either be a curse or a blessing so it is important for the Zambian government to be very careful with how it will use the commodity once it is found in Northern Province, British High commissioner to Zambia, Fergus Cochrane, has warned. Mr Cochrane said there was a high possibility that Northern Province had oil as its geology was similar to that of countries where oil had been discovered such as Uganda. He was speaking in an interview on the side-lines of the launch of the Tullow Oil Exploration, a British company that will undertake geological surveys in Kasama and Luapula Provinces. “This company has successfully found oil and gas in other African countries in Kenya and Uganda so they believe that there is a chance that there is oil in northern Zambia because the geology is very similar to where they […]
