The price of oil closed higher last Friday, the 26th, with Brent (the benchmark for Angolan exports) rising by 1.65 dollars, closing at 100.99 dollars a barrel. US WTI crude oil futures rose 54 cents to trade at $93.06 a barrel. For the week, Brent gained 4.4 percent, while WTI rose 2.5 percent. The rally was driven by signals from Saudi Arabia that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could cut output, but
The Single Window for Licensing Commercial Activity (JULAC) issued, between April 2021 and July of this year, 205,019 licenses, in response to a total of 251,577 requests for international trade facilitation. The data are contained in a report by the Institute of Administrative Modernization (IMA) dedicated to the Integrated Foreign Trade Platform (PICE), indicating that, in the period in question, a total of 79,950 national and foreign companies obtained licenses, with an average of 596
OPEC oil production rose in August to its highest level since the early days of the pandemic in 2020 as operations in Libya recover, according to Reuters. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) produced 29.58 million barrels per day (bpd) in August, up 690,000 bpd from July and the highest level since April 2020, according to Reuters polls. OPEC and allies, a group known as OPEC+, are backing out of production cuts adopted
As of today, the 5th, the petrol stations at 1º de Maio and Rio Seco, in Luanda, will be temporarily closed for rehabilitation work. According to a note from Sonangol’s Distribution and Marketing Business Unit, as an alternative, customers will have at their disposal the filling stations at the Airport (Cassenda district), São Cristóvão (Maculusso), Atlético (Neves Bendinha), Rádio Nacional de Angola (Alvalade), Eucalyptus (Nelito Soares).
In line with the mining operations in the provinces of Lundas Norte and Sul, we were able to witness the complexity of all the engineering work, developed with alluvial diamond deposits in mind, which became more valued from 2018 onwards, with the implementation of a new commercialization model, which eliminated the so-called “preferred customers”. The first stop was at N’zaji, municipality of Cambulo, base of operations of SMC (Sociedade Mineira do Chitotolo), since 1986, with
The Sociedade Mineira do Chitotolo (SMC) suspended operations in the areas of Chitotolo, Muyta and Sangulungu, keeping them in Maludi, which represents 40 percent of the activity of the consortium owned by Angola’s Endiama and Lumanhe, as well as Australia’s ITM. The partial interruption of operations was decided to comply with the restrictions imposed by the State of Emergency in force in the country since March 27, giving rise to authorization for home confinement for
Two projects are in pilot production, located in the province of Lunda Norte, the region where the largest number of mines and diamond projects are located, although Lunda Sul is the largest diamond producer in the country. There are a total of 42 projects participated by Endiama Mining. Of the 42 mining projects participated by Endiama Mining, the diamond operator of the Endiama group, 21 are at a standstill, five are in prospection and only 11
The Italian company Saipem won 3 important new service contracts for the New Gas Consortium (NGC) led by Azule Energy (Eni Angola & bp Angola), for the development of the Quiluma and Maboqueiro gas fields, located offshore Angola. The Italian player was awarded 1 onshore contract and 2 offshore contracts, with a global value of around US$900 million, Saipem will be responsible for engineering, procurement and construction, as well as connection and commissioning assistance for
A new company called (Cimeleste Vungo Indústria, Lda) dedicated to the production and sale of cement will be born in the country, in the region of Cazombo, Moxico province, and is expected to create another 2,000 jobs. According to a press release sent today to Jorna de Angola Online, the firm is originally from Canada, with an investment estimated at more than US$50 million “and a production capacity of 1,500 tons of cement/day”. Given its
The Republic of Angola is a vast country with a coastline spanning 1,600km, sharing borders with Namibia to the south, and Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the east and northeast, respectively. A lower middle-income country, the backbone of Angola’s economy is driven by its oil industry, which, along with fishing, are the country’s main sources of foreign investment. The upstream oil industry is Angola’s primary source of foreign exchange, contributing
