The 1st round table for women in the Mining Industry – positioning, opportunities and challenges was organized in Luanda last Tuesday 4th April by Bumbar Mining, allowing the assessment of the challenges faced by women within the sector. JA Online learned from a note that questions were addressed at the event, including: “How does the Angolan Mining Industry intervene in training staff for the industry’s value chain?; How does the hiring of women currently proceed?
The Secretary of State for Mineral Resources, Jânio Correa Victor, reiterated, Wednesday 5th April, in Luanda, the need for greater dedication from women with a view to overcoming the approximately 12 percent of the workforce in the mining industry. Jânio Correia Victor made these remarks at the opening of the round table under the motto “Women in the Angolan Mining Industry”, organized by Mining Eventos, to awaken a greater interest of women in the geological-mining
The state-owned company Sonangol, as one of the main shareholders (40 percent), plans to structure its subsidiary, Porto Amboim Estaleiros Navais, Limitada (PAENAL) to increase turnover, based on a new business model adapted to current and future challenges of the group’s market. According to So-nangol, in a press release, this Monday 3rd April, the revitalization will make Paenal once again included in the “set of active units” and increase its turnover. For the implementation of these
Endiama’s Executive Director, Ana Maria Feijó, stressed that the institution still has a lot to do so that women are better represented, at a time when they make up only 10 percent of the workforce, that is, in a universe of 11 thousand workers , a thousand are women. “Faced with reality, there has been a certain impediment due to the fact of having many tasks, such as being a mother and a wife, because
Aircraft refueling on Angolan soil got cheaper this March, compared to February, according to the table published by the Regulatory Institute for Petroleum Derivatives (IRDP) of the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas. The reduction was an average of 30 kwanzas for each reference litre, but which represents, overall, a significant saving for operators. According to the same IRDP table, for this month of April, the Adjustment Reference Price – Platts (PRA) is now
Brent prices (reference oil for Angolan sales) for delivery and May ended the week accumulating losses of 12.45 percent, under the influence of market fears about the future of the financial sector after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, as well as the Credit Suisse liquidity crisis. Last week, Brent ended the day down 2.32 percent to trade at $72.97 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI, the benchmark for the
The Norwegian company that provides maintenance services for oil tanks, Dof Subsea Angola, has announced for the next few days the hiring and training of around 40 young technicians who have recently graduated and have no professional experience, as part of a partnership with two Angolan universities. The information was advanced last week, in a press conference, by the Executive Vice President of DOF for Africa and Europe Jan-Kristian Haukeland, noting that 50 percent of
Sonangol and the National Electricity Transport Network (RNT) signed a memorandum of understanding for the distribution of clean energy to the future hydrogen and green ammonia production plant in Barra do Dande. According to a press release from the institution, the agreement outlines the main lines for the supply of electricity to the hydrogen and green ammonia production plant, generated by renewable energy or low-carbon energy, to be built in Barra do Dande, by the
The information was provided by the President of the National Petroleum and Biofuel Agency, Paulino Jerónimo, at the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding between ANPG, Sonangol P&P and ExxonMobile, regarding Blocks 30, 44 and 45 of the Namibe Basin. Paulino Jerónimo said that in the event of a commercial discovery in the aforementioned well, it is estimated that investment of US$15 billion will be invested in the evaluation and development of the large-scale
The Porto-Amboim Naval Shipyard (PAENAL), dedicated to building modules for the oil industry, will start to rely, as of June, on electricity from the public network. This action will reduce the company’s operating costs, as announced last Tuesday by the director general of the metal-mechanical company. Luís Barroso considered it opportune to lay the first stone of the project to install electricity from the public network for the Paenal shipyard, as it will allow the
