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Africa To Supply Big Chunk Of Global Natural Gas By 2025?

Africa could provide as much a fifth of global demand for liquefied natural gas by 2025, up from 10% in 2018, due to huge investments in the sector and some recent major discoveries.

The African Energy Chamber, a group of energy and mining companies in Africa, reported recently massive discoveries in Mozambique, Tanzania, Senegal and Mauritania have aggregate reserves of 200 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves – an amount sufficient to supply two-thirds of current world demand for two decades. In addition, Nigeria alone possesses 200 trillion cubic feet of proven gas reserves.

African gas properties have received major investment interest from foreign energy firms like Total (TOT), ExxonMobil (XOM), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS-A) and others.

In September, Total purchased Anadarko Petroleum’s (APC) 26.5% stake in Mozambique’s liquefied natural gas project for $3.9 billion.

Exxon and Total will together spend $50 billion on this Mozambican project by 2025.

Reserves discovered in Mozambique are estimated to have at least 180 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Mozambique could potentially become the third largest global liquefied natural gas producer in the world by 2030, after Qatar and Australia.

“The availability of a new source of much needed natural gas and power will fuel the economic growth in Mozambique and the southern African region,” Total and its partners said in a joint statement.

On the west coast of Africa, BP (BP) and Kosmos Energy (KOS) have poured $10 billion into an offshore gas field project at Grand Tortue on the maritime border between Mauritania and Senegal. The field is expected to come onstream by 2022.

BP said this field has an estimated 15 trillion cubic feet of gas and a 30-year production potential.

PricewaterhouseCoopers reported natural gas will play an increasingly important role in global energy use as more countries move away from coal and oil dependency.

Natural gas, PricewaterhouseCoopers forecasts, become the world’s second leading fuel by 2030, supplanting coal.

Mozambique, one of the poorest nations on earth, is of particular importance due to its immense natural gas reserves.

GlobalData, a London data analytics and consulting company, reported Mozambique will become one of the 10 largest producers of liquefied natural gas in the world in the next few years.

“Within a few years, about 30 million tons per year will be extracted, due to existing deposits in the Rovuma basin, where 125 trillion cubic feet of natural gas have already been discovered,” GlobalData said.

However, as in much of Africa, Mozambique is beset by political turmoil and terrorism – and its promising energy sector remains vulnerable to violence.

Stratfor, an American geopolitical intelligence analysis firm, reported an ongoing Islamist insurgency in northern Mozambique poses a threat to multibillion-dollar oil and gas projects in the region.

“The unfolding insurgency in northern Mozambique could end up costing the government billions of dollars in oil and gas investments,” Stratfor wrote. “Foreign energy firms operating in the region are increasingly finding themselves caught in the crossfire of militant attacks.”

Such dangers, Stratfor proposed, “will undoubtedly force many to invest in extensive and costly security upgrades to protect their personnel and installations.”

Indeed, in February, a Mozambican worker was beheaded by jihadists when two road convoys operated by Anadarko were attacked in northern Mozambique.

Nick Branson, an analyst at the London consultancy Verisk Maplecroft, warned militants now possess the capacity to threaten liquefied natural gas operations on the mainland, raising investment and extraction risks.



155 Comments on "Africa To Supply Big Chunk Of Global Natural Gas By 2025?"

  1. Cloggie on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 1:02 pm 

    “PBM stand no chance of happening.”

    Now please the reason why it won’t happen.
    The real reason (“I don’t want it to happen”) can’t pass as a serious substantiation.

    Here my substantiation:

    https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/putin-confirms-ambition-paris-berlin-moscow-alliance/

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-macron-geopolitics/on-russia-and-eu-enlargement-macron-pushes-a-radical-agenda-idUSKBN1XO2P9

    https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/salvini-my-only-purpose-is-to-save-europe/

    Questions?

  2. Cloggie on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 1:05 pm 

    “Russia Plays The European Card”

    https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/russia-plays-the-european-card/

    In a recent ground-breaking foreign policy paper, Wladimir Putin reveals the contours of his grand strategy: “Russia is an inalienable and organic part of Greater Europe and European civilization. Our citizens think of themselves as Europeans. We are by no means indifferent to developments in united Europe.”

  3. Cloggie on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 1:07 pm 

    German news now, international weapon trade:

    1 USA 59%
    2. Russia 8.5%
    3. UK 8.4%
    4. Germany 2%

  4. I AM THE MOB on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 2:03 pm 

    Davy is right about that. But it doesn’t matter if Clogg vision isn’t based in reality. What matters is how it makes feel and helps him cope with being a old loser NEET.

  5. Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 2:10 pm 

    OK. I take back all that bad stuff i said about you SLOB. you can stay. my good freind

  6. I AM THE MOB on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 2:17 pm 

    Clogg

    Nothing a false flag can’t alter.

    Never underestimate them.

    “MARX OR DIE” sign in France protest last weekend

    https://i.redd.it/m2itqgyw5w241.png

  7. Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 2:22 pm 

    If you say something nice cloggo. I might let you stay too.

  8. I AM THE MOB on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 2:34 pm 

    Internet mocks InfoWars protestor who interrupted impeachment hearing to scream ‘Trump is innocent!’

    https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/internet-mocks-infowars-protestor-who-interrupted-impeachment-hearing-to-scream-trump-is-innocent/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3193&recip_id=2946&list_id=2

  9. Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 3:01 pm 

    “German news now, international weapon trade:
    1 USA 59% 2. Russia 8.5% 3. UK 8.4%
    4. Germany 2%”

    Instead of putting the EU weapon trade figure the cloggo breaks it out by country to avoid showing how much Europe together produces. The cloggo does this as necessary to present a big or small number. The cloggo is our board fraud but at least he is better than stupid (juanPee) the board lunatic.

  10. Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 3:04 pm 

    “Now please the reason why it won’t happen.”

    It hasn’t happened cloggo and your eurotardland is balkenizing as we speak. You can’t have a PBM without a united EU or it is not a pan European empire like you so passionately drool over. Your screwed cloggo. Not happening no matter how hard you whine about it.

  11. JuanP on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 3:41 pm 

    You can call me crazy but you can’t blame me for uncaring. I care about the earth, trees, and amimals. I care about our biosphere. Chopping off my scholong has been a traumatic experience physically and mentally I’ll never recover from PTSD caused by the experience. But I did it for love and I live by my words.
    #chopped

  12. Cloggie on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 3:44 pm 

    “It hasn’t happened cloggo”

    Aha, it hasn’t happened, so it will not happen in the future. You have a very static worldview.

    “your eurotardland is balkenizing as we speak”

    What do you mean? Brexit? That is a Godsend. They should never have been in the EU, now they auto-deport. We can’t have PBM without Brexit. The EU is shifting to the East.

    Do you deny that Russia has repeatedly said it wants to be part of Europe?

    Do you deny that Macron has repeatedly said he wants to integrate Russia in European security structures?

    That IS PBM, regardless how much you hate it. Get used to it, you are going to be our bitch and it is the best that can happen to you under given circumstances.

  13. I AM THE MOB on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 4:08 pm 

    Daily Mail on Sunday made false claims about Labour’s tax plans. Press regulator rules story, which was used in Tory campaign literature, was inaccurate

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/09/ipso-rebukes-mail-on-sunday-over-labour-movers-tax-claim

    Daily mail knows their readers are total loser imbeciles who won’t every object to anything they say. Look at Clogg the biggest loser on this board. And that is easily proven by how much time and dedication he wastes here. lol

  14. Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 4:31 pm 

    We decided your not allowed to stay cloggo. you keep saying stuff that makes our widdle feelings hurt.

  15. Cloggie on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 4:46 pm 

    “We decided your not allowed to stay cloggo. you keep saying stuff that makes our widdle feelings hurt.”

    Yes you and mobby are angry and frustrated.

    I like that because it reveals your inner, desolate state, from which I can read your future. And I like what I read.

  16. Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 4:52 pm 

    “You can call me crazy but you can’t blame me for uncaring. I care about the earth, trees, and amimals. I care about our biosphere. Chopping off my scholong has been a traumatic experience physically and mentally I’ll never recover from PTSD caused by the experience. But I did it for love and I live by my words. #chopped”

    You are crazy and all you care about is yourself. You act like we are supposed be understanding for your 2 ½ years of trolling. Yea, you want to do maximum damage to me, that is fine, but you could give a shit about others who are not a part of your feud. If you cared so much about Nature you would not be living in a Miami Beach condo screwing off like a rich South American fuckoff. You are just a idiot JuanP pretending to be important. You want your craziness to be the center of attention but instead it is just running people off.

  17. JuanP ID theft on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 4:54 pm 

    This is from stupid:
    Davy said Well obviously, my stupid, mindless and insane ass…

    Davy said We decided your not allowed to stay cloggo. you ke…

    Davy said Oops, sorry for getting all triggered and losing m…

  18. Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 5:02 pm 

    “What do you mean? Brexit? That is a Godsend. They should never have been in the EU, now they auto-deport. We can’t have PBM without Brexit. The EU is shifting to the East.”
    The EU is unstable from more than Brexit. Several other countries are itching to disrupt the status quo and within EU countries there is turmoil. The worst situation is with the ECB and the tiering of debt between north and south. This is only going to deteriorate further causing more unrest.

    “Do you deny that Russia has repeatedly said it wants to be part of Europe?”
    Cloggo, Russia is part of Europe, dummy. Russia wants to be Russia first and then part of Europe. Europe will never fully trust Russia. Europe also does not want the other extreme. Your PBM is way down the chart and mostly talked about by extremist like you.

    “Do you deny that Macron has repeatedly said he wants to integrate Russia in European security structures?”
    Macron is a nobody who is not going to be in power very long. France is a mess and he is part of the problem. Endless strikes and protest from France ensure his days are numbered.

  19. makati1 on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 5:08 pm 

    Cloggie lives in a fantasy world of returning EURO power and endless renewable energy.

    Davy lives in a fantasy world of never ending US Power and the dollar.

    Both are just that, fantasies. But, if it floats their boat…

    Meanwhile in the real world:

    The EU is beginning to break up, debt and poverty is growing exponentially, and they are over run by foreign men who think women are toys for their sexual pleasure.

    In the US, the ‘government’ is fighting a civil war among itself, the insanity level obvious now, the cities are literally shitty, drugs are overtaking sanity as lifestyles are destroyed, guns are proliferating, suicides are growing along with massive debt everywhere, and on and on.

    Yes, other countries are not perfect, but it does not take much to be above the declining West (US, EU, Japan, and Australia). The world will celebrate the downfall of the West and move on. Soon, I hope.

  20. full woke supremacist muzzies jerk on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 5:10 pm 

    Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 4:52 pm
    Above not supertard obv.

  21. Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 5:39 pm 

    “Davy lives in a fantasy world of never ending US Power and the dollar.”

    Please, makato, I talk about the US and dollar declining just not the extreme one sided decline you want to proselytize. You are just whining because your fraudulent story of the Asian Phoenix is a joke. Most all of your packaged binary agenda has been proven wrong. OH, you are good at presenting bias facts but where you fail miserably is the interpretations of these cherry-picked facts into a lame story line. At least cloggo has good post on energy issues. You are just a broken record of US hate and cheap glorifications of Asia. You act like you know Asia but this is a fiction. You live in a little shanty town in the P’s. You don’t know Asia. You don’t even know the US anymore. You are irrelevant makato.

  22. makati1 on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 5:52 pm 

    Denial Delusional Davy, the reality I detail is obvious to anyone with an open mind. Yours is obviously as tight as they can get. Blinders on. Rose colored glasses, etc. The three monkeys, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, defines you perfectly. But that is your privilege as a “free” Amerikan. About as “free” as those monkeys in the zoo. LMAO

    BTW: You delusional folks have to support each other’s delusions or the real world will destroy your little world. Cloggie is some sick kid, living in fantasy land, because he cannot survive in the real one, like yourself. The pain will only be greater if you don’t prepare. Well deserved.

  23. Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 6:00 pm 

    “Denial Delusional Davy, the reality I detail is obvious to anyone with an open mind.”
    You have nothing open about your mind, makato. You are a one-track mind. There is zero balance in any of your comments. What is more disgusting is how you brag on yourself in the process of your delusional comments. Pretty much you are the type of person to make a balanced person sick.

    “Yours is obviously as tight as they can get. Blinders on. Rose colored glasses, etc. The three monkeys, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, defines you perfectly. But that is your privilege as a “free” Amerikan. About as “free” as those monkeys in the zoo. LMAO”
    Translation: ??????? what did you say makato? You are just blabbering.

    “BTW: You delusional folks have to support each other’s delusions or the real world will destroy your little world. Cloggie is some sick kid, living in fantasy land, because he cannot survive in the real one, like yourself. The pain will only be greater if you don’t prepare. Well deserved.”
    Makato, when do I support cloggo? I debate cloggo’s nasty one-sided message just like yours. He is as bad as you in that respect. Where he kicks your ass up one side and down the other is with some good energy comments. Nothing uttered from your pie hole is worth a listen.

  24. makati1 on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 6:19 pm 

    Davy, you can spout all the bullshit you want, it changes nothing. I am as free and independent as you can be this side of death. You can never be even close to either as long as you reside in the US Police State and are a tax slave. Your masters control everything important in your life. You control nothing. So be it.

    I’m enjoying my retirement and watching the US disintegrate, wasting your life blood on resource wars and the desperate attempt at keeping its waning power. Soon Amerika will be limited to consuming its fair share of the world’s resources. About 4% not the 25+% you are used to. The pain will be terrible, but it is in the near future. Maybe you should prepare for it by buying a pistol and a hollow-point? MOB has the right idea for those who don’t want to face reality and prepare.

  25. Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 6:35 pm 

    “Davy, you can spout all the bullshit you want, it changes nothing. I am as free and independent as you can be this side of death. You can never be even close to either as long as you reside in the US Police State and are a tax slave. Your masters control everything important in your life. You control nothing. So be it.”
    Sounds like cognitive dissonance from the makato. You try to hard to cut down my life here probably because you are a lonely bored old man with few real friends. You turned your back on your family like a coward. Now you are struggling to deny the regret you feel deep inside. Man up and accept your mistakes. Your life has been one failure after another.

    “I’m enjoying my retirement and watching the US disintegrate, wasting your life blood on resource wars and the desperate attempt at keeping its waning power. Soon Amerika will be limited to consuming its fair share of the world’s resources. About 4% not the 25+% you are used to. The pain will be terrible, but it is in the near future. Maybe you should prepare for it by buying a pistol and a hollow-point? MOB has the right idea for those who don’t want to face reality and prepare.”
    Blah blah blah, the same shit from the makto’s pie hole just a different day. You really are senile and mentally unstable. Your comments show just how far down the rabbit hole of delusions you have gone.

  26. Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 6:38 pm 

    where is stupid when you need him, right makato! LMFAO. OR where is dumbass annoymouse the sniveling stalking anti-American Canadian when you need him? looks like you are all by your lonesome, makato

  27. full woke supremacist muzzie jerk i know some wrong when a pretty little white girl ran to a black man arms dead giveaway deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed giveaway on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 7:24 pm 

    Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 6:38 pm
    above not supertard obv.
    muzzie attacked florida, muzzies are victims.
    muzzie boarded flight, passenger yielded seat to supremacist muzzie, muzzies victim
    muzzie attack infidels muzzies are victims
    infidels attack muzzies muzzies are victims

  28. This is From Stupid on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 7:40 pm 

    Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 6:38 pm

  29. Anonymouse on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 8:01 pm 

    Looks like the exceptionalturd just got his worthless ass neutered..

    Again.

    (Occurs daily actually)

    Good job, Mak and kudos from all us free-thinkers here in the Great White North.

  30. REAL Green on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 8:28 pm 

    You’re an embarrassment to the entire family Davy, and to our country. Dad always said you’d never amount to much. He was dead right.

  31. full woke supremacist muzzie jerk i know some wrong when a pretty little white girl ran to a black man arms dead giveaway deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed giveaway on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 8:49 pm 

    REAL Green on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 8:28 pm
    above not supertard obv.

  32. REAL Davy on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 9:07 pm 

    Above superdavysock obv.

  33. REAL Insane on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 9:29 pm 

    Davy REAL insane obviously. Davy should go see the doctor.

  34. makati1 on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 9:45 pm 

    Anon, putting Davy down is so easy. I enjoy poking him with the stick of reality. He, and others like him, are responsible for the decline, and eventually 3rd worldization, of Amerika. So well deserved by the Missouri Jackass.

  35. full woke supremacist muzzies jerk on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 9:51 pm 

    Supertard
    Please be nice to supertard

  36. I AM THE MOB on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 9:54 pm 

    This is the future leftists want

    https://imgur.com/58MInPF

  37. supremacist muzzie jerk on Mon, 9th Dec 2019 10:29 pm 

    (((Supertard))) MOB it looks like whitey supertard trump is toast. He will turn from orange to brown soon when (((supertard)))nadler is thru with him. I don’t know why whitey supertard trump (muzzies died like a dog) is so afraid of Big Grope whitey supertard Biden. I mean really? 2016 and he already thought ahead to 2020? Then preventing staff to cooperate isn’t good either. If he is impeached he should resign his supertard status and become Big Grab (his title before I promoted him for giving Jerusalem to israel).
    Very bad.

  38. Cloggie on Tue, 10th Dec 2019 12:07 am 

    “This is the future leftists want
    https://imgur.com/58MInPF”

    I am pleasantly surprised by the honesty of I AM THE KIKE! What he and his tribe want to do to America is the same what they did to Russia. The only difference is the color of the guards of the gulag.

    This situation, like in Soviet-Russia, would occur after a civil war, won by the left. And the left probably would win if there was no foreign intervention, like there was no serious foreign intervention between 1917-1922, because everybody was recovering from WW1.

    What a difference with today! 640 million prosperous Europeans and 1350 million rising Chinese would make short shrift with the US, totally divided in itself, and its rotten empire.

    Come on mobby, give US whitey, the last weapon you have and used against us in WW2, a hard time… so we can take the f* apart.

  39. Cloggie on Tue, 10th Dec 2019 12:22 am 

    Silk Road at least 3700 year old:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7774709/The-unlikely-tail-Indian-monkeys-ancient-fresco.html

  40. Cloggie on Tue, 10th Dec 2019 4:11 am 

    The silk road was not silk but many Dutch think it were

  41. Cloggie on Tue, 10th Dec 2019 4:13 am 

    What a difference with today! 640,000 million gay Europeans and 1350,0000 million rising Chinese robatons would make short shrift with the Boreals, totally living like perverts, and its rotten whore house.

  42. I AM THE MOB on Tue, 10th Dec 2019 12:00 pm 

    Singapore Has a Population of 5.8 million, of Whom 38%, or 2.3 Million, Are Foreigners.

    And its one of the greatest countries on earth.

  43. I AM THE MOB on Tue, 10th Dec 2019 12:08 pm 

    “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

    -George Orwell

  44. Cloggie on Tue, 10th Dec 2019 12:35 pm 

    Million, Are Foreigners.

    And its one of the greatest countries on earth.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Singapore

    Foreigners my foot. Singapore is 76% ethnic Chinese, with 15% Malays as 2nd, Singapore is not multicultural, it is dominant Chinese, that happens to be rich, because of its advantageous location, next to the busiest shipping lane in the world, providing endless opportunities for added value to transported goods.

    Marxist I AM THE KIKE lies out of his ass to promote his kosher multicult model, that intends to wipe out any particular local identity.

    “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

    Orwell is a lying scumbag. The communists throughout history, committed overwhelmingly more atrocities than nationalists. And The Atrocity of them all, was invented by victorious communists, er globalists, during their victors trial. But it is all coming out now:

    https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2019/12/10/us-high-profile-dissident-paul-craig-roberts-flirting-with-holocaust-denial/

    Orwell was a communist, who supported Stalin-backed communists in Spain and for whom “1984” was probably program rather than warning.

    #SelfulfillingProphecy

    Eastern Europe is nationalist.
    Western Europe is gradually turning towards populism.
    China is authoritarian nationalist.
    Russia is nationalist.

    And poor America, well…

    https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2019/12/10/the-microphone-for-american-deplorables/

  45. Cloggie on Tue, 10th Dec 2019 12:47 pm 

    Nigel Farage savages Boris Johnson’s ‘oven-ready’ Brexit deal and claims Labour believes Leave voters are all ‘morons’ in last-ditch bid for support amid gloomy poll numbers

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7776107/Nigel-Farage-claims-Boris-Johnsons-Brexit-deal-mean-long-years-indigestion-UK.html

    Didn’t the British version of AIPAC, namely the “Friends of Israel”, already object against Farage’s formulation?

  46. Cloggie on Tue, 10th Dec 2019 12:56 pm 

    Trudeau has been caught as a blackface for a reason: he loves carbons.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/10/canada-trudea-climate-crisis

    “Trudeau will fuel the fires of our climate crisis if he approves Canada’s mega mine”

    Alberta’s oil sands produce one of the dirtiest oils on the planet, and they are the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions in Canada. The industry is expanding rapidly and is already responsible for more carbon pollution than all of Quebec. Oil and gas is now the largest climate polluter in the country, exceeding all greenhouse gases from transportation. Even without Teck Frontier, there are 131 megatonnes per year in approved tar sands projects just waiting for companies to begin construction. No wonder the industry is on track to take up 53% of Canada’s emissions budget within the next 10 years.

  47. I AM THE MOB on Tue, 10th Dec 2019 1:14 pm 

    Chris Wallace: Trump allegations are “far broader than the Clinton impeachment” -FOX NEWS

    https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-impeachment-chris-wallace-fox-news-clinton-fe80c811-f8fd-4e9e-b20d-d29f64b18790.html

  48. Cloggie on Tue, 10th Dec 2019 1:27 pm 

    Wallace is a Dems party hack.

    Yawn.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wallace

  49. Cloggie on Tue, 10th Dec 2019 1:40 pm 

    Told you so!

    “Suddenly, the Chinese Threat to Australia Seems Very Real”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/28/world/australia/china-spying-wang-liqiang-nick-zhao.html

    We can only keep our fingers crossed for the fate of the Five Eyes. I fear the worst. Here in Europe we are going to observe it all from a safe distance. And send blankets, candy bars and warm words of moderation.

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