Saipem Secures Contract for Libya’s Borui Gas Utilisation Project

Italian multinational oilfield services company Saipem has been selected by Mellitah Oil & Gas to provide services for the development of the Borui Gas Utilization Project in Libya. Saipem will provide engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning services for an approximately 5,000-ton gas recovery module which will replace an existing platform, as part of the contract. The contract is worth approximately $1 billion and will also include Saipem installing 28km of pipelines to connect the

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Catoca Resumes Suspended Diamond Sales

Catoca Mining Company has resumed diamond sales this month after temporarily suspending them due to a drop in prices in the international market. The company’s gemstone carat prices fell by 22 percent. The chairman of the company’s Management Council, Benedito Manuel, made this announcement. Quoted by RNA yesterday August 13th, Benedito Manuel added that sales are taking place on an experimental basis, given the precautions established to assess market trends. “We have not yet reached

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Angola Seeks More Chinese Investment in Energy Sector

Angola is accelerating efforts to stimulate Chinese investment into its energy sector through bids for new oil and gas projects. The move is poised to leverage China’s robust financial sector and attract additional capital and technological input into the southern African country’s energy sector development. With support from the Embassy of Angola in China, Angola is actively presenting opportunities to Chinese companies to participate in bidding opportunities for 12 major oil and gas blocks in

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Sonangol Issues Debt in the Domestic Market

Sonangol is set to launch a bond issuance tomorrow August 15th, through which it will contract debt in the amount of 75 billion kwanzas with a maturity of five years (2023-2028), according to a statement released by the company on Friday. In the document, the oil company announces a Public Subscription Offering of bonds valued at 75 billion kwanzas, at a unit price of 10,000 kwanzas, corresponding to 10 million units at an interest rate

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Rio Tinto to build Canada’s largest solar plant to power a diamond mine 

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is to build Canada’s largest solar power plant that willsupply electricity to its diamond mine in the Northwest Territories, the miner announced last week.   The plant will cover a quarter of the electricity needs of the Diavik diamond mine by generating around 4,200 megawatt-hours of electricity annually. The move comes as Rio Tinto plans to achieve net-zero emissions across its operations by 2050.  The solar plant is expected to cut the

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Aliko Dangote loses nearly 6 billion USD following the devaluation of the Naira

Figured at 21.2 billion dollars at the beginning of the year 2023, the fortune of the Nigerian billionaire and the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote, recorded a fall of almost 6 billion dollars, from 21 $15 billion following the devaluation of Nigeria’s national currency, the Naira. According to data from the Bloomberg agency based on the Billionaires Index method, this drop, the highest recorded since 2014, is tributary to the wake of the elimination

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Saudi oil giant Aramco reports 40% less profits in Q2 year-on-year

Total sales stood at just over $106 billion, down from $150 billion in the second quarter of 2022. In an earnings report filed with the Saudi stock exchange, Aramco said the decrease “mainly reflected the impact of lower crude oil prices and weakening refining and chemicals margins.” The company reported net income of $30 billion, compared to $48 billion in the second quarter of 2022, a decline of 37.8 percent. Aramco nevertheless raised its dividend

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Luele Mine Initiates Diamond Exploration by Year’s End

The Luele Mine, located in the Eastern region of the country, between the provinces of Lunda-Norte and Lunda-Sul, is expected to commence effective diamond exploration by the end of the year, as announced by the Minister of Mineral Resources, Petroleum, and Gas on Tuesday August 8th. While not disclosing the exact starting month for now, Diamantino Azevedo explained, in statements to the press at the conclusion of his assessment visit to the province of Lunda-Sul,

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Crude Oil Ends Higher Amid DoE Projection Revision

Crude oil closed higher on Tuesday August 8th after spending much of the trading session in the red. Prices were supported by an upward revision in the United States Department of Energy’s (DoE) projection for Brent crude oil prices. Production cuts by Saudi Arabia and Russia also seem to be having the intended effect of boosting prices by limiting supply, according to analysts. On the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), September WTI crude oil closed

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Uranium Deposits Confirmed, Drilling Advances at Namibian Project

Australian-based uranium exploration company Elevate Uranium has confirmed the presence of large continuous mineralized zones at its Koppies uranium project in Namibia, and as a result, is advancing drilling activities with the addition of another rig. The company currently has two reverse circulation drill rigs conducting exploratory works at the Koppies project, and has recently added a third rig to the program following confirmation of mineral resources at the Koppies 3 area of the project.

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