{"id":5709,"date":"2017-02-24T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T08:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2017-02-24T08:30:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T08:30:33","slug":"soma-oil-and-gas-director-appointed-somalia-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/soma-oil-and-gas-director-appointed-somalia-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Soma Oil and Gas Director Appointed Somalia Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somalia\u2019s new president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has appointed Executive Director for Africa at Soma Oil and Gas Hassan Khaire as the country\u2019s new prime minister.<\/p>\n

The British explorer in an announcement said Khaire had resigned from the Board so as to take up this post and had relinquished all his shares in the Company<\/p>\n

Khaire a Somali national also with Norwegian citizenship has worked with the Soma Oil and Gas since its inception in 2013 and prior to that worked as the Director for the Norwegian Refugee Council for Somalia and East Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted that his dedication to Somalia and his contribution to the recovery of his country is being recognised.\u00a0 We wish him great success in his role as Prime Minister of Somalia,’ said Chairman of Soma, Lord Michael Howard of Lympne.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see whether his new post will see an uptake in oil and gas exploration in the country mainly onshore where various oil companies have halted exploration citing mostly insecurity.<\/p>\n

His former company Soma Oil and Gas is seeking offshore acreage<\/a> and\u00a0is set to benefit from blocks with an area of up to 60,000 sq km under a seismic option agreement with Ministry of Petroleum & Mineral Resources, Federal Government of Somalia. It is likely to be an area of scrutiny for the new PM despite his relinquishment of shares at the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somalia\u2019s new president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has appointed Executive Director for Africa at Soma Oil and Gas Hassan Khaire as the country\u2019s new prime minister. The British explorer in an … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":5711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[5882,5881,5039,2345,2352],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-hassan-khaire","tag-mohamed-abdullahi-mohamed","tag-prime-minister","tag-soma-oil-and-gas","tag-somalia","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/soma-oil-gas-khaire.jpg?fit=620%2C330&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-1u5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6503,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/somalia-petroleum-ministry-denies-links-oil-gas-summit-set-march-nairobi\/","url_meta":{"origin":5709,"position":0},"title":"Somalia Petroleum Ministry Denies Links To Oil Gas Summit Set for March in Nairobi","author":"","date":"November 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Somalia Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources has denied it has endorsed the Somalia Oil, Gas & Mining 2018 Summit which is planned to be held in Nairobi in March 2018 with the intention of boosting the long term development of the Oil, Gas and Mining sectors according to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Events"","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Somalia-Oil-Gas-Mining-Summit-2018.jpg?fit=524%2C274&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":808,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/somalia-commissions-onshore-oil-surveys\/","url_meta":{"origin":5709,"position":1},"title":"Somalia commissions onshore oil surveys","author":"Samuel Kamau Mbote","date":"March 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Story by Bloomberg Somalia is conducting offshore surveys in hopes of attracting explorers including Royal Dutch Shell Plc two decades after the outbreak of a bloody civil war drove foreign investors away. 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