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Continue reading →: A day in the life of a ReconAfrica stock promoter September 2022. In 2025, nothing has changed.
ReconAfrica is a Canadian company with a license to a massive land area in Namibia and Botswana. Without evidence, they declared they found ‘the world’s last great onshore basin’. and called it the Kavango Basin. Many reddit and discord groups have been created by investors to discuss the stock…
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Continue reading →: The Sproule Report said ReconAfrica had a 3.3 chance of commerciality which was contingent on fracking. They deleted the report.
Recon Africa hired Sproule, an energy consulting and advisory firm, to write a report in 2018, which was updated in 2020. The report said there was a very low chance of commercial success (less than 4%), and that any extractable reserves would be unconventional i,e fracking. Sproule based the possibility…
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Continue reading →: ReconAfrica claimed that their drill mud is ”organic” in response to allegations that they failed to line their drill mud pit.
Statement by Women’s Leadership Center, Nutrition and Food Security Alliance of Namibia and The Economic and Social Justice Trust of Namibia 30 May 2022 In a recently published interview on OneAfrica TV (Friday, 6 May 2022), ReconAfrica spokesperson, Mwanyengwa Shapwanale stated that the company uses an ‘organic’ drilling mud, which…
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Continue reading →: ReconAfrica’s full ECC for seismic in 2021 stipulated that they must stick to existing roads and adhere to their Environmental Management Plan.
Link to full 2021 ECC https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:dfd9d4d0-b9a3-4dbf-924e-acaa9605873f
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Continue reading →: Broken Trust. How A Canadian Driller Profits By Exploiting Namibian Laws and Communities
ReconAfrica’s Broken Trust: How A Canadian Driller Profits By Exploiting Namibian Laws and Communities Published January 15, 2025 By Saving Okavango’s Unique Life (SOUL) And the Economic and Social Justice Trust of Namibia (ESJT) Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 ReconAfrica’s Seismic Amendment 5…
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Continue reading →: Letter from The Economic And Social Justice Trust of Namibia to Canadian High Commission Regarding ReconAfrica.
To:Christopher CooterHigh Commissioner of South Africa1103 Arcadia StreetHatfield, Pretoria, 0083South Africa CC:Mary NgMinister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic DevelopmentHouse of CommonsOttawa, Ontario From:Economic & Social Justice Trust of Namibia84 Theo Ben Gurirab StreetWindhoek, Namibia Co-signed by:Max MuyemburukoThomas MurongaJonas KalengaReinhold Mangundu Key Points and Takeaways: View or…
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Continue reading →: ReconAfrica’s corruption of Namibian public officials and its crimes against the people of Namibia, 2022
ReconAfrica’s corruption of Namibian public officials and its crimes against the people of Namibia, 2022. Executive SummaryA Canadian company has violated multiple Namibian laws and corrupted its offices and processes. ReconAfrica’s marketing displays a sophisticated awareness of best oilfield practices, but the company’s actions do not align with their stated…
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Continue reading →: ESG Complaint to FBI’s white collar division and the SEC.
From: As well as the following Namibian organisations: Economic and Social Justice Trust of Namibia Kapinga Kamwalye Conservancy Muduva Nyangana Conservancy Ncaute Community Forest To: BAFIN anja.schuchhardt@bafin.de, WA24@bafin.de, Alexander.Hammel@bafin.de The United States Justice Department Criminal Fraud Division The Federal Bureau of Investigation White Collar Crime Division The Court of the…
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Continue reading →: New Lines Magazine story on ReconAfrica founder Jay Park’s history of corruption and bribery.
Please click the link below for the full story: https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/oil-kingmaker/ In an interview in 2018 with The Energy Year, Park stated that his law firm did not “act within a country for both the government and investors.” But Park’s own website has stated that he does indeed work with “both…
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Continue reading →: ReconAfrica Annex 1 EIA Report for drilling 2019
“The Kavango Basin, location of PEL 73, offers both large scale conventional and non-conventional potential petroleum (oil and gas) exploration play types. The implementation of the proposed drilling operations is a vital step in trying to understand the geology, stratigraphy and the petroleum system of the basin. The results from…
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Continue reading →: Hydrologists show that ReconAfrica’s oil exploration poses a threat to Okavango Delta
Abstract Canadian oil and gas company, Reconnaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica), plans to exploit potential oil reserves in the Cubango Okavango River Basin (CORB) in Namibia and Botswana, where little is known about the local groundwater systems and how contamination and its effects could impact the region. Using borehole data from target oil…
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Continue reading →: University of Toronto and SOUL file complaint about ReconAfrica’s human rights violations in Namibia.
This Complaint is filed by the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto. OVERVIEW 1. 2. The Complainant files this complaint with the CORE to request that it investigate ReconAfrica for the adverse human rights impacts of their oil and gas exploration activities, as outlined below, in violation…
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Continue reading →: Elisabeth Kosters is an independent geologist and former academic and government scientist who has published a detailed critique of ReconAfrica’s claims about the geology of the exploration site in Namibia.
On November 5, 2021 ReconAfrica publicized its first three seismic lines. These lines represent 150 km of the 450 km the company collected. They can be viewed here and here. The data show that the Kavango subsurface “basin” is less than half the depth of the Owambo Basin to the west. This observation…
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