Since the start of the war, Saudi Arabia has been losing market share in China – the world’s biggest energy market – thanks to Russia selling its oil at steep discounts. And even a production cut in Saudi Arabia earlier this month did not have the desired effect of raising prices to compensate for falling demand. The chaos in Russia in recent days, in which the Wagner paramilitary group launched and then stopped an insurrection,
The Minister of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, Diamantino Azevedo, met, Tuesday June 27th, with the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Erling Rimestad, to deepen relations between Angola and Norway, in the field of hydrocarbons and energies . On the occasion, the portfolio holder reviewed the situation of the Oil and Gas sector and the country’s commitment to transparency in the extractive industries, making financial resources affect the populations more and more
Crude oil rallied Wednesday 28th June after an industry report of a larger-than-expected drop in US crude reserves suggested robust demand and helped offset concerns about further hikes in interest rates. Oil reserves fell by about 2.4 million barrels, according to market sources, citing data from the American Petroleum Institute (API) industry group ahead of official Energy Information Administration data. “This morning’s relief [Wednesday] comes from last night’s API statistics,” said Tamas Varga of oil
On the back of major oil and gas discoveries in recent years, Namibia’s upstream oil and gas sector is on the precipice of rapid transformation. Significant discoveries made in the southern African country’s Orange Basin in 2022 and 2023 – which include the Graff-1, Venus-1, and Jonker-1X exploration projects –, compounded by favorable fiscal incentives, have attracted oil and gas supermajors including TotalEnergies, Shell, Chevron and ExxonMobil, as well as multinational energy corporations such as
Global oil and gas company TechnipFMC has been awarded a contract by Azule Energy – a joint venture between oil and gas supermajors, Eni and bp – to supply subsea production systems for the Block 18 Infills development, offshore Angola. Announced on 26 June, the contract will involve the mobilization of between $75 million and $250 million and will see TechnipFMC design and manufacture subsea trees, a manifold, subsea distribution equipment, topside controls and spearhead the engineering, procurement
South Africa and Germany have inked a bilateral cooperation deal for the two countries to collaborate on a series of green hydrogen projects. The deal builds on existing cooperation established between the countries and aims to support the trade and development of the resource. Green Hydrogen Lead in the Investment and Infrastructure Office of the President of South Africa Masopha Moshoeshoe stated that under the terms of the deal, Germany will provide support regarding the
Angola’s national concessionaire the National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANPG) signed four direct concession contracts for the production of oil blocks in the onshore Kwanza Basin. Poised to increase exploration activity and production in the southern African country’s onshore acreage, the concession involves Blocks KON 2/11/12 and 16 and will serve to encourage the participation of small- and medium-sized companies within Angola’s oil and gas space. Concession Contracts Bolster Upstream Activities The signed concession
26 Ugandans filed a lawsuit against French oil firm TotalEnergies on Tuesday June 27th in Paris, France, seeking compensation for alleged abuses of human rights at the company’s huge megaprojects there. People from the impacted areas, joined by five French and Ugandan charity organizations, claim that the energy company TotalEnergies caused “serious harm,” notably to their rights to land and food. The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) project, a 1,500 km pipeline bringing crude
Lucapa Diamond’s 40%-owned Lulo alluvial diamond mine, in Angola generated $10.7 million from four stones auctioned at the just-ended online rough diamond tender conducted by SODIAM. The revenue realised from the Lulo stones accounted for almost half of the $21.7 million generated from the tender. SODIAM tendered 36 single stones in total. The Angolan national diamond trading company supplied no additional information about the sizes of the four Lulo diamonds other than that they were
A delegation from the Ministry of Mines and Energy of Namibia has visited the offices of ENDIAMA-E.P, with the aim of exchanging experiences to make the diamond subsector increasingly dynamic and attractive. The meeting was guided by the President of the National Diamond Company of Angola, Ganga Júnior, who also discussed with the Namibian delegation issues related to the exploitation of diamonds in the sea, an activity already developed by Namibia. Miina Gahutu, Director of
