Ivory Coast aims to boost oil output

Ivory Coast hopes to raise its oil output to around 200,000 barrels per day in five years from 32,000 bpd now thanks to recent discoveries and ongoing exploratory drilling, a top oil official said according to a report.Oil exploration off Africa’s west coast has risen sharply since Ivory Coast’s neighbour Ghana discovered a large field in 2007 and brought it into production in record time in late