Africa · 25 markets

    Where we work.

    Offices in Cape Town and Stavanger. Partners on the ground in 8 countries. Coverage across 25 African markets. Read country by country, by people who have spent time in the room.

    The continent we work in

    Africa is not one market.

    25 countries, five sub-regions, three time zones, two ocean-facing fisheries economies, and a hydrocarbon endowment that runs from the Sirte Basin in the north to the Orange Basin in the south. The serious Norwegian businesses we represent here have learned the same lesson we have: the continent is read country by country, by people who have spent time in the room.

    Each of the 25 country pages below is written to the same structure, by people who travel to those countries and who know the operators, the ministries, the ports and the people who work in them. There is no league table. There is a continent in motion and a Norwegian advisory firm with a clear view of it.

    What we do, in one paragraph

    Saga is the commercial face of Norwegian technology and service companies in an African market — opening the door to operators, ministries, NOCs and partners; sitting alongside the technology partner in the negotiation; and managing the relationship from first introduction through pilot, contract and renewal. We work in energy technology and the blue economy.

    Read our approach

    Where Africa is, in 2026

    Two currents shape the continent for the kind of work we do.

    The brownfield revaluation

    A generation of African oil and gas fields built between 1970 and 2010 are now mature. Western Desert, Sirte, the Niger Delta, Block 17 in Angola — these are not declining assets to be wound down. They are the most economically attractive barrels on the continent if the right completion, stimulation and reservoir-management technology is brought to bear. The Norwegian capability in this space is unusual and well-suited.

    The blue-economy build-out

    Aquaculture in Tunisia, Senegal, Egypt and Kenya is on a different growth path from the fisheries economies that came before it. Norwegian know-how on cages, smolt, vaccines and feed is a quiet structural advantage; so is the long Norwegian-Africa relationship around fisheries surveillance and IUU enforcement, which sits at the intersection of public-sector reform and a fast-growing satellite-and-software market.

    These currents do not run at the same speed in every country. Reading the difference is the work.

    The 25 countries

    Click through to the country you came for.

    The country pages are written for the reader who is asking a specific question — should we be in Egypt? In Senegal? In Tanzania? — and who wants the calm, lived-in version, not a glossy market overview. The order below is geographical, not a ranking.

    North Africa

    4 markets

    West Africa

    6 markets

    Central Africa

    6 markets

    Southern Africa

    5 markets

    East Africa

    4 markets

    Why Norwegian companies work with us

    Three reasons that come up in every conversation.

    We know the country

    Each country page is written from time spent on the ground — meetings with operators, regulators, NOC technology teams, aquaculture cooperatives, port concessionaires, embassies and the Norad and Norfund teams that sit alongside us. The partner who introduces you is the partner who stays in the room.

    We know the corridor

    The Norwegian-Africa relationship is the moat. Equinor in Angola and Tanzania, BW Energy in West Africa, Yara in Senegal and Tunisia, Aker in Ghana, the long Norad bilateral programmes — these relationships change a Norwegian technology partner's probability of a serious meeting from low to good.

    We are small, specialist and clear about what we sell

    Saga is not a global consultancy. We are the commercial face of Norwegian technology and service companies in African markets — opening the door to operators, ministries, NOCs and partners; sitting alongside the partner in negotiation; and managing the relationship from first introduction through pilot, contract and renewal. Our approach sets out the method.