Our History

CAMAC was founded in Houston in 1986 as CAMAC Interest, Inc., an agricultural commodities business that traded tobacco, barley and other grains from the United States to countries in West Africa. The name CAMAC is an acronym derived from the Cameroon-American Company, which reflects the location of the company's first successful commodities trade.

After a few successful years in business, Dr. Kase Lawal, CAMAC's Chairman and CEO and chemical engineer by training, re-tooled CAMAC from an agricultural trading enterprise into an affiliated group of companies focused exclusively on energy exploration and production and related services.

In the 1990s, Allied Energy PLC. the West-African based affiliate of CAMAC began exploring for hydrocarbon resources in the highly competitive offshore Nigerian market and throughout the world and experienced phenomenal growth.

Two decades later, CAMAC's search for energy resources and investments has taken group affiliates to Russia, Ghana, South Africa, Colombia, Malaysia, Great Britain, Congo, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Ireland, Angola, and Kenya. CAMAC International provides added value for our transactional partners, who benefit from our unique perspective on West Africa, and from the strong networks and relationships we've established around the world.