The company Oceaneering International announced the signing of two contracts worth 100 million US dollars for the provision of offshore support services, in oil and gas projects, in Angola and Guyana (overseas region of France on the Northeast coast of South America). According to news on the PetroAngola website, in the first contract, Oceaneerin will provide transport and installation services as part of the project to extend the useful life of the Girassol field offshore
ENDIAMA has held a meeting, last month in Dundo- Lunda Norte province, to take stock of the half-yearly diamond production of the mining companies operating in Angola. In addition to maximizing the exchange of experiences, the aim of the meeting was to evaluate the functioning and discuss the procedures applied by the diamond producing companies. The event was led by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of ENDIAMA- E.P, Ganga Júnior, and was also
A fancy-vivid-blue diamond with a high estimate of $50 million will be the star of an upcoming Geneva jewelry auction at Christie’s. The pear-shaped, 17.61-carat Bleu Royal diamond is the largest internally flawless gem of its color ever to appear at auction, Christie’s said Monday. It will headline the November 7 Magnificent Jewels sale. The stone has spent the past 50 years in a private collection. Now set in a ring, it is entering the
Petra Diamonds gave a downbeat outlook after weak rough demand drove the company into the red in the most recent financial year. Revenue slid 42% to $325.3 million for the 12 months that ended June 30, the miner reported Friday. Sales volume dropped 33% to 2.3 million carats, with the average price falling 14% to $139 per carat. The slump reflected decrease in production, the deferral of sales to the 2024 fiscal year due to
Inventory in the diamond trade will remain high for the time being amid reduced retail demand, but the market will eventually rebound, De Beers has predicted. “While there have been some positive signals in some countries, with US inflation continuing to fall and the economy proving more resilient than anticipated, 2023 consumer demand for natural diamonds is expected to be below the record levels seen in 2021 and 2022,” the miner said in its annual Diamond Insight
The Indian diamond sector has recommended a two-month freeze on rough imports, its most drastic emergency measure since the Covid-19 crisis. The pause will run from October 15 to December 15, five leading trade organizations said in a joint statement. They came to the decision at a meeting of more than 100 industry representatives the same day, and said they would review the situation in the first week of December. The move is a response
Namibian President Hage Geingob expressed the view that the United States is overlooking investment opportunities in green hydrogen projects and mineral resources within the southern African nation. Meanwhile, the European Union has shown significant interest in these prospects. In December, German officials visited Namibia with the intention of exploring investments in response to their quest for new energy sources to facilitate a transition to cleaner technologies. This move is partly driven by the need to
Sonangol received, on Tuesday 12th September, the second oil tanker of the Suezmax type, in the city of Mokpo, South Korea, ordered from the company Hyundai Samho Heavy industries. For the vessel’s godmother, named “Sonangol Njinga Mbande”, in honor of the sovereign Queen of the Kingdom of Ndongo and Matamba, the choice fell to the First Lady of the Republic, Ana Dias Lourenço. In carrying out the ritual dictated by the ancient tradition of sailors,
The Australian multinational Rio Tinto, the second largest minerals company in the world, began prospecting operations for kimberlites and diamonds in the commune of Chiri, province of Lunda-Norte, informed the company’s general director. The four-year prospecting phase takes place in a 75 hectare or 108 square kilometer mine, under the terms of a mining investment contract in Quimberlito do Chiri signed between the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, Endiama and Rio Tinto ,
The future of fossil fuels, the main cause of the increasingly severe climate crisis, is this year at the center of international negotiations that will culminate in December, at COP28. The G20 expressed itself, last Saturday, deeply divided in relation to oil, deciding not to call for an exit from fossil fuels, but rather to support, for the first time, the tripling of renewable energies by 2030. The G20’s commitment to renewable energies, reached at
