The first photovoltaic plants in the country, developed by a consortium that integrates the Portuguese group MCA, were inaugurated this Wednesday in Benguela and will produce electricity to supply 1.5 million people, according to the Ministry of Energy and Water. The plants were inaugurated by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, who arrived this morning in Benguela, for a visit of a few hours. The photovoltaic parks, located in Biópio and Baía Farta, in
The Minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, assured, Wednesday (20), in Benguela, that the solar plants will replace the thermal sources of energy production. “In this way, we will save 275 million liters of fuel per year, which represents, in financial terms, about 85 million dollars annually”, he said. The country’s first two solar power plants, inaugurated yesterday by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, in Biópio and Baía Farta, will benefit
Angola’s ministry of transport has awarded a tender to a Trafigura consortium to operate and expand rail infrastructure to speed up commodity imports from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo, Africa’s biggest copper producer, exports copper, cobalt, and other metals in trucks via Tanzania or South Africa, which takes several weeks because of congestion and customs delays. As part of a 30-year concession agreement, the consortium has agreed to invest $256 million in infrastructure, $73
Trelleborg Marine and Infrastructure has completed the remote installation of its SafePilot Offshore technology for a deepwater oil & gas project in Angola, the company announced 19 July. The work was part of an upgrade of the navigation and positioning systems and buoy monitoring systems to a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO). To create more remote operations for its offshore assets, the FPSO operator required support for the installation, data integration, software uploading
This Monday, at a meeting of the Council of Ministers, the granting of concessions for eight of the nine oil blocks in the Baixo Congo and Kwanza basins was approved. “The National Agency of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANGP), as National Concessionaire, holder of mining rights for prospecting, research, evaluation, development and production of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons in Angola, announces that it was approved at a meeting of the Council of Ministers, this Monday,
Quanten Consortium Angola – which will build and operate the Soyo Refinery – and FACRA (Fund Activo de Capital de Risco Angolano) have teamed up to implement an “innovative financing strategy” that will support national companies. On the one hand, contracts will be awarded to local companies for the supply of goods and services for the refinery project and, on the other hand, financing will be promoted for these same companies. At an extraordinary meeting
Sonangol will reinforce its tanker fleet with two ships. The new vessels, whose construction has been commissioned to South Korea, will be capable of carrying one million barrels. The construction of one of the ships has already started, having started last week, on the 15th of July. According to the oil company, in a statement quoted by Angop, the start of the contract was made official with the cutting of steel, in an act that
With targets currently in place to meet a larger share of the global market, Africa’s top oil producing countries are seeking solutions to increase investment in the oil sector and tap into the continent’s 125.3 billion barrels of oil reserves. Taking advantage of Africa’s vast resources has been a top priority for some of the continent’s largest oil producers, with the industry relying heavily on the performance of high-quality oil rigs – platforms that are
Angolan oil production increased in June, when the Sunflower vine was the third most expensive in the world, according to a report by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) released yesterday by the international press. The document indicates that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iran and Kuwait also increased production that month, when Venezuela decreased, and that Angola’s oil was the third most expensive in the world among 13 OPEC member crudes, only
Brent oil, which serves as a benchmark for Angolan exports, was the third most expensive in the world among 13 crudes from the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), only surpassed by Algeria and Equatorial Guinea. According to the OPEC monthly report published this week, among the 13 types of oil that make up the OPEC reference basket, the Angolan Sunflower crop reached US$127.03 in June, also having the highest rise in
