- ABEX
- Abandon Expenditures
- AFREC
- African Energy Commission
- IEA
- International Energy Agency
- APPO
- Organization of African Petroleum Producers
- AVO
- Amplitude Variation with Offset
- API
- American Petroleum Institute
- BBL/D/1K
- One Thousand Barrels Per Day
- BCF
- Billion cubic feet
- CAPEX
- Capital Expenditures
- ECOWAS
- Economic Community of West African States
- CO2
- Carbon Dioxide
- CPI
- International Oil Company
- CPP
- Production Sharing Contract
- CNPC
- China National Petroleum Corporation
- UNCTAD
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- DHI
- Direct Hydrocarbons Indicator
- DPB
- Benin Oil Depot Company
- DW
- Deep Water
- IMF
- International Monetary Fund
- GAO
- West Africa Gas Pipeline
- LNG
- Liquefied Natural Gas
- GNPC
- Ghanean National Petroleum Company
- LPG
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas
- EITI
- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
- MMBBLS
- Million de barils
- NNPC
- Nigerian National Petroleum Company
- NOx
- x Nitrogen oxide
- OPEX
- Operating Expenditures
- NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- PDO
- Development and Operation Plan
- PETROCI
- National Company of Petroleum Operations of Côte d'Ivoire
- PETROSEN
- Société Nationale des Pétroles du Sénégal
- GDP
- Gross Domestic Product
- PPS
- Sèmè Oil Project
- PSA
- Production Sharing Contract
- SAPETRO
- South Atlantic Petroleum
- SAR
- Société Africaine de Raffinage
- SIR
- Société Ivoirienne de Raffinage
- SMB
- Multinational Bitumen Company
- SONANGOL
- Société Nationale des Pétroles de l’Angola
- SONATRACH
- National Hydrocarbons Company of Algeria
- SONIDEP
- Nigerien Oil Company
- SORAZ
- Zinder Refining Company
- SW
- Shallow Water
- TCF
- Trillion Cubic Feet (1000 BCF)
- TOR
- Tema Oil Refinery
- UDW
- Ultra Deep Water
- VSP
- Vertical Seismic Profil
- WAPCo
- West African gaz Pipeline Company
- WAPCO
- West African Oil Pipeline Company
- AfCFTA
- African Continental Free Trade Area
