Such influence is only limited by the complicated problems facing Nigeria internally and making it unstable. Hence, France adopts a strategy aimed at undermining Nigeria. This has become quite clear when it supported the separatist movement in Piavra territory. France also seeks to interfere in the Nigerian economy, particularly in the petroleum sector through ELF Company. Great oil discoveries in Angola will change the position of oil reserves and production all over the world.
Oil is the genuine hope for the economic progress in Angola.
In 1996, ELF discovered underwater Girasol oil well. Angola controls Soyo territory and the onshore oil field establishments in order to maintain a balanced economy after the end of the civil war. It is one of the states that will join the Club of Oil Producing African States in the future. Support obtained by the rebel movement in Southern Sudan, either from the West or from some African states, still impedes Sudan from making full use of its oil wealth, mostly located in the South. African crude oil producers have established the African Oil Producers Association in 1987 in Lagos, with the objective of cooperating in the technical field and defending their common interests.