The National Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANPG) and Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited (CABGOC), a subsidiary of Chevron, announced this Monday 6th March the start of oil production at the Lifua-A project, forecast to produce 6,500 barrels. per day. According to an ANPG press release, the Lifua-A platform, in Block 0, is interconnected with existing facilities in the Takula area and is expected to produce a total of 6,500 barrels of oil per day
The price of a barrel of Brent oil, which serves as a reference for Angolan exports, for delivery in May ended yesterday 6th March, on the London futures market up 0.41%, to US$86.20. Brent prices regained ground in the latter part of the session, after falling earlier in the day, in reaction to the release of worse-than-expected economic forecasts for China. However, global tensions related to the supply of oil plus the expectation and improvement
Aircraft refueling on Angolan soil is 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 10 kwanzas for each reference litre, but which represents, overall, a significant saving for operators. According to the same IRDP table, for this month of March, the Adjustment Reference Price – Platts (PRA) is now
More than 19 million kwanzas is the amount that some consumers owe the National Electricity Distribution Company (ENDE), in Benguela province, according to the institution’s spokesman, Lauro Fortunato. The official, who provided the information during the lecture on “Energy Education”, aimed at students of the Comandante Kassanji School – Liceu de Benguela, said that the debt resulted from non-payment of consumption for some years. He said that, for cases of debt, the ENDE gives the
The Minister of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, Diamantino Azevedo, heard the chairman of the Board of Directors (PCA) of the National Oil and Gas Agency (ANPG), Paulino Jerónimo, and the vice-president of Total Energies for Upstream, Nicolas Terraz. As JA learned, the meeting dealt with the development of the Cameya and Golfinho fields and blocks 20 and 21 of the Kwanza Basin. Leaving the meeting, Paulino Jerónimo said that efforts were being made to
Angola, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have taken important steps to create a trade corridor that could transform the way the region’s resources are shipped. “Harmonizing regulations on the corridor and infrastructure development would allow the three countries to transport metals used to manufacture electric vehicles and wind turbines from inland mines to port, reducing transport time from weeks to days,” he said. the mining company Pensana in a statement. The agreement
The National Diamond Company of Angola (Endiama) expects to reach a production of 12 million carats this year. The information was provided by the chairman of the Board of Directors of Endiama, Ganga Júnior, at the end of the working meeting he held, Wednesday 1st March, in Luanda, with the Board of Directors of the Institute of Management of Assets and State Participations (IGAPE) . According to the manager, in 2022, Endiama had a production
Energy engineering and technology company TechnipFMC announced that it has secured a $250 million contract with oil and gas multinational TotalEnergies for the engineering, procurement and supply of flowlines and connectors for the Girassol Life Extension (Girlfex) project. , located in Angola offshore Block 17. According to a document that JA had access to, the installation of flexible pipes is expected to extend the useful life of the Girassol field, bypassing the outdated rigid pipe
One hundred and fourteen young people recently concluded, in the city of Saurimo, province of Lunda-Sul, training in diamond cutting at the Training Center in Evaluation and Lapidation of the National Diamantifer Society (Sodiam). In the message, during the ceremony for awarding certificates to the finalists of the first and second cycles, the recent graduates expressed their “willingness and availability” to face new challenges and contribute to the development of the diamond subsector in Angola.
The minister of Education, Luisa Grilo, inaugurated Thursday, 23, in Namibe province a primary school No. 113, named after “Manuel Francisco Peú”, which is located at Valódia neighborhood, in the Moçâmedes municipality. Fully equipped, the school was built from scratch with funding from SODIAM – E.P., and it is the result of a protocol signed between the government of that province, the National Company of Diamond Commercialization of Angola and Fundação Brilhante, the social face
