African Petroleum Producers Association

Logo of the African Petroleum Producers Association.

Map of states belonging to the APPA as of June 2009.

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.

Membership

The following African states are members of the African Petroleum Producers Association:

	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]
	Ghana	2011	[12]
	Libya	1987	[13]
	Mauritania	2008	[14]
	Niger	2012	[15]
	Nigeria	1987	[16]
	South Africa	2005	[17]
	Sudan	2008	[18]

Footnotes

1. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
2. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
3. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
4. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
5. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
6. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
7. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
   (Although not directly mentioned.)
8. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
   (Although not directly mentioned.)
9. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
   (Although not directly mentioned.)
10. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
11. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
12. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pmbres/ghana.html
13. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
14. African Petroleum Producers Association website: http://www.appa.int/en/pmbres/pang.html
15. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
16. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
17. APPA Bulletin 9, Page 22: http://www.appa.int/en/pub/Bulletin_APPA-n9_eng.pdf
18. African Petroleum Producers Association website: http://www.appa.int/en/pmbres/pang.html

External links

• APPA - official website