One would think any offshore exploration would quickly focus on the previously seismic surveyed and previously wildcat drilled "Hafun" offshore area a continuation of the Dharoor Valley.
Total ELF actually spudded Hafun #1 and found oil.
http://www.somalilandtoday.net/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=477
As for the period after the 1973 oil crisis when the American oil companies returned to the country, the country was run under a soviet-style system of foreigner surveillance and constant requirement of prior approval for travel outside Mogadishu by oil company executives and employees such that the foreign oil men were soon fed up and left the country.
"For example, in 1975 the French oil company ELF invited its employees to a party to celebrate its success in finding oil in its concession offshore from Hafun".
But they were soon expelled from the country or harassed to leave it. Many other oil companies were met with the same fate. They did not come back until the 1980’s after the expulsion of the Soviets and the adoption of free enterprise.
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