African Petroleum Producers Association, APPA (Association des pays africains producteurs de pétrole in French, Associação de Produtores de Petróleo Africanos in Portuguese and رابطة منتجي النفط الأفريقية in Arabic) is an organisation of African countries producing petroleum. It was founded in 1986. The headquarters of the organisation are in Brazzaville in the Congo.
The founding of APPA was spearheaded by Nigeria as an effort to mitigate the nation's dependency on Western technology and Western markets for oil export revenues. The objective of APPA was to promote cooperation in petrochemical research and technology.
The founding of APPA was spearheaded by Nigeria as an effort to mitigate the nation's dependency on Western technology and Western markets for oil export revenues. The objective of APPA was to promote cooperation in petrochemical research and technology.
Membership
State
Year of Entry
Notes
Algeria
1987
[1]
Angola
1987
[2]
Benin
1987
[3]
Cameroon
1987
[4]
Chad
2005
[5]
Congo, Republic of the
1987
[6]
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
1989
[7]
Côte d'Ivoire
1989
[8]
Egypt
1989
[9]
Equatorial Guinea
1996
[10]
Gabon
1987
[11]
Libya
1987
[12]
Mauritania
2008
[13]
Nigeria
1987
[14]
South Africa
2005
[15]
Sudan
2008
[16]
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