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Oil and gas a key stimulus in country´s growth

This Moroccan-based infrastructure construction company is thriving throughout Africa, using the latest technology to further develop the infrastructure in EG and throughout Africa

Gifted with one of sub-Saharan Africa's largest hydrocarbon reserves and boasting a strategic geographical location, Equatorial Guinea has the potential to become the CEMAC region's energy, maritime, tourism and transshipment hub

The umbrella under which the Horizon 2020 capital projects are coordinated, the Horizon Agency is overseeing Equatorial Guinea's transformation to developed country

Overseeing more than 1,400 new projects with more than 350 companies is GE Proyectos (or EG Projects), the agency within the Ministry of Public Works and Infrastructure charged with securing the country's sustainable development through the implementation of large-scale infrastructure projects

Equatorial Guinea holds 4.3% of global oil reserves, meaning the country is the third largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa, after Nigeria and Angola, and ahead of Gabon and Cameroon. Statistically speaking, Guinea produces more barrels of oil per capita than Saudi Arabia

Marathon Oil, EG LNG and AMPCO have all worked to help reduce the prevalence of malaria, build schools, and train locals to become part of a skilled workforce

Home to an enormous gas field, Equatorial Guinea has facilitated one of the world's fastest LNG train projects

The country and its people have benefitted from Marathon Oil's success

Equatorial Guinea's sole methanol plant produces 2% of the world's supply