Africa · 17 markets
The continent we work in.
Saga represents Norwegian and Nordic principals in seventeen African markets. This is where we work, what we see, and how we think — read country by country, by people who have spent time in the room.
The continent we work in
Africa is not one market.
Seventeen countries, four sub-regions, three time zones, two ocean-facing fisheries economies, and a hydrocarbon endowment that runs from the Sirte Basin in the north to the Orange Basin in the south. The serious Norwegian businesses we represent here have learned the same lesson we have: the continent is read country by country, by people who have spent time in the room.
Each of the seventeen country pages below is written to the same structure, by people who travel to those countries and who know the operators, the ministries, the ports and the people who work in them. There is no league table. There is a continent in motion and a Norwegian advisory firm with a clear view of it.
What we do, in one paragraph
Saga represents principals. We are the commercial face of a Norwegian (or Nordic-aligned) company in an African market — opening the door to operators, ministries, NOCs and partners; sitting alongside the principal in the negotiation; and managing the relationship from first introduction through pilot, contract and renewal. We work in energy technology, the blue economy, and trade and policy advisory.
Read our approachWhere Africa is, in 2026
Three currents shape the continent for the kind of work we do.
The brownfield revaluation
A generation of African oil and gas fields built between 1970 and 2010 are now mature. Western Desert, Sirte, the Niger Delta, Block 17 in Angola — these are not declining assets to be wound down. They are the most economically attractive barrels on the continent if the right completion, stimulation and reservoir-management technology is brought to bear. The Norwegian capability in this space is unusual and well-suited.
The blue-economy build-out
Aquaculture in Tunisia, Senegal, Egypt and Kenya is on a different growth path from the fisheries economies that came before it. Norwegian know-how on cages, smolt, vaccines and feed is a quiet structural advantage; so is the long Norwegian-Africa relationship around fisheries surveillance and IUU enforcement, which sits at the intersection of public-sector reform and a fast-growing satellite-and-software market.
These three currents do not run at the same speed in every country. Reading the difference is the work.
The seventeen countries
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The country pages are written for the reader who is asking a specific question — should we be in Egypt? In Senegal? In Tanzania? — and who wants the calm, lived-in version, not a glossy market overview. The order below is geographical, not a ranking.
North Africa
4 markets
Egypt
Africa's largest energy market and the home of our most cited brownfield reference. Western Desert tight-carbonate work is live; Cairo is the right place to start a Mediterranean-and-Africa BD calendar.
Read country pageAlgeria
Sonatrach's 2025–2030 well plan is one of the largest in the world. Gatekept and slow but deeply rewarding for principals who arrive with a credible regional partner. Hassi Messaoud and Hassi R'Mel are canonical tight-carbonate plays.
Read country pageLibya
The single most consequential brownfield opportunity on the continent. The Sirte Basin holds Africa's largest reserve cluster; the recent licensing round has put NOC and Mellitah back in conversation with foreign capability. We treat the security picture honestly and we are present.
Read country pageTunisia
A country deliberately rebuilding outwards from the coast. Aquaculture inbound investment has accelerated sharply; the port-and-customs digitisation programme is one of the most coherent in North Africa. A focused, blue-economy entry point.
Read country pageWest Africa
9 markets
Nigeria
Saga's volume market. NNPCL JVs, the indigenous majors and the marginal-field awardees form the largest cluster of brownfield-tech buyers on the continent. Lagos is in the calendar every quarter.
Read country pageGhana
Tullow's Jubilee and TEN are the live conversations on well-life extension and cost discipline. Aker Energy's portfolio and the Pecan field add a second axis. A clean path through Accra for a focused completion or subsea play.
Read country pageSenegal
The strongest Norwegian corridor in West Africa. Long-standing Nordic bilateral programmes have built a relationship few competitors can match. Sangomar Phase 2 sits inside our energy thesis; we tell new principals to start here.
Read country pageCameroon
A patient, secondary play. Perenco's operating relationship at Rio del Rey, the Douala port and the country's quiet but real position in Central Africa give it long-cycle value. We are present, we attend, and we move when the moment comes.
Read country pageRepublic of the Congo
The cleanest commercial read in central Africa. TotalEnergies on Moho Nord, Eni's Marine XII LNG ramp-up to 3 mtpa, Perenco's shelf — three named operators and a clear push to 500 kbpd.
Read country pageDemocratic Republic of the Congo
A continental-scale country with a small upstream and an enormous adjacency. Perenco's Muanda offshore is the brownfield play; cobalt, copper and Lake Kivu methane are the second axis. We work the DRC selectively, not generally.
Read country pageCôte d'Ivoire
Eni's Baleine discovery has turned a quiet shelf into the most-watched gas-condensate development in the Gulf of Guinea. Abidjan is the regional capital francophone West Africa actually uses, and the AfDB ecosystem makes it a useful convening city.
Read country pageBenin
A small, stable francophone market whose strategic value is its port. Cotonou serves landlocked Niger and northern Nigeria; Glo-Djigbé is the most credible industrial platform in the region. Trade and logistics, not upstream.
Read country pageGabon
A mature deepwater and shelf oil province in managed decline. Perenco, Assala, TotalEnergies and BW Energy define the operator stack. Brownfield well-life extension is the dominant technical theme.
Read country pageSouthern Africa
5 markets
Angola
The deepwater brownfield-redevelopment market. Equinor's long history in Block 17, Azule Energy (BP/Eni), Sonangol's technology team and Etu Energias are the named anchors. Luanda is in our quarterly calendar; Sonangol's appetite for foreign technology continues to evolve.
Read country pageNamibia
Africa's most-watched frontier story is now a development story. Venus, Mopane, Graff, Jonker and Sapakara are sequencing toward FID. Lüderitz and the hake industry connect the energy story to a long-standing Norwegian-Namibian fisheries relationship.
Read country pageMozambique
Mozambique LNG has restarted. Cabo Delgado has stabilised but is not invisible; Coral Sul FLNG continues to produce; Coral North sequences in. Norad's Fish for Development programme has been active here for nearly two decades.
Read country pageSouth Africa
Saga's regional capital. Cape Town and Stavanger are the two ends of the same desk. The Upstream Petroleum Resources Development Act, the Orange Basin step-out and the Norfund-anchored renewables platform define the next 24 months.
Read country pageBotswana
The most disciplined macro economy on the continent. Energy is small; the play is coal-bed methane, mining-grid renewables and the Debswana relationship. Gaborone is a calm Southern African base.
Read country pageEast Africa
4 markets
Tanzania
Equinor's long operator history with TPDC is the spine of the country's gas story. The Lindi/Mtwara appraisal programme is the most coherent pre-development opportunity in East Africa, with layered Nordic warm-intro paths.
Read country pageKenya
East Africa's fintech, AI and blue-economy capital. Konza Technopolis, M-Pesa's data infrastructure, Mombasa port modernisation and a serious posture on fisheries surveillance make this a different shape of Saga play — and an important one.
Read country pageUganda
The Lake Albert oil project moves toward first oil. EACOP financing has been controversial; Chinese operators are central to the development phase. Beyond upstream sits Lake Victoria, where a Norwegian-led blue-economy play has space.
Read country pageRwanda
East Africa's most-disciplined small economy and the regional convening capital. Kigali is the conference and financial-services hub of choice; Lake Kivu methane is a unique energy story. A services and blue-economy market, not upstream.
Read country pageWhy Norwegian principals work with us
Three reasons that come up in every conversation.
We know the country
Each country page is written from time spent on the ground — meetings with operators, regulators, NOC technology teams, aquaculture cooperatives, port concessionaires, embassies and the Norad and Norfund teams that sit alongside us. The partner who introduces you is the partner who stays in the room.
We know the corridor
The Norwegian-Africa relationship is the moat. Equinor in Angola and Tanzania, BW Energy in West Africa, Yara in Senegal and Tunisia, Aker in Ghana, the long Norad bilateral programmes — these relationships change a Norwegian principal's probability of a serious meeting from low to good.
We are small, specialist and clear about what we sell
Saga is not a global consultancy. We do one thing: we represent principals. We are clear about which countries we are strong in, which sectors we cover, and how we think about the work. Our Approach sets out the method.