Energy companies are renowned for taking risks as they scour the globe for new opportunities.
That said however, Canada’s Vancouver, BC-based Horn Petroleum Corporation, a unit of Africa Oil Inc., is in a class by itself, having begun drilling operations in Somalia’s semi-autonomous northern Puntland state.
Somalia?
Which has not had an effective government since 1991?
Land of “Black Hawk Down,” pirates, battling militias, al Shabaab militants and U.S. drone strikes against…