“At approximately 3:30 p.m. local time [August 11], a limited number of gun shots were reportedly fired in the vicinity of the team,” said DNO spokesman Henrik Schwabe in an email. “No one was injured and the team was immediately repatriated to Hargeisa.”
DNO said the team was conducting a water survey in the Hudun area of the SL-18 license block in Somaliland on its behalf, as part of a DNO-funded project to provide local communities with safe drinking water. The company didn’t disclose the team’s nationality.
“The Somaliland authorities are investigating the matter further,” Mr. Schwabe said.
DNO said it was aware of local media claims that the company would exit Somaliland, but said that was incorrect speculation.
Somaliland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Behi Yonis said he had heard about the Hudun gunfire incident but didn’t know the full details. He said the region’s authorities were in the process of recruiting a security force, paid for by oil companies, to protect its oil assets.
“Soon we will hopefully have an oil protection unit,” Mr. Yonis said, adding that the force would number about 420 recruits. “We won’t have any events then,” he said.
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