Energy Capital & Power considered this Wednesday that natural gas will be essential for Angola to be able to diversify the economy beyond oil and also implement industries that are not dependent on raw materials. “Natural gas has the potential to guarantee Angola’s transition beyond its dependence on crude oil, towards the establishment of diversified industries and not based on raw materials”, wrote the analyst at the consultancy Energy Capital & Power, Grace Goodrich, about
Angola develops actions to reduce production In 2021, in terms of oil production, with the strategy of the Angolan Executive, it was possible to mitigate the decline in production with the entry of new projects into production. According to the report by the National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG), in 2021 the country recorded a total oil production of 410,426,767 (four hundred and ten million, four hundred and twenty-six thousand, seven hundred and
Brent (reference for Angolan exports) closed this Tuesday’s session at US$96.19 per barrel, down US$1.73, around 1.8 percent. WTI oil in the US closed at $91.13 per barrel, down $1.51 or 1.6 percent. Both market benchmarks rose the previous week largely on expectations of global supply tightening. Oil prices fell amid comments from US Federal Reserve officials about rising interest rates and their effect on the economy. Prices also suffered from the strengthening of the
Sonangol took over, this Tuesday, the management of the African Petroleum Oil Forum, with the testimony of Nigeria, during the third meeting of the national oil companies of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO), held in Luanda, on October 10, at the Intercontinental Hotel. “We, African oil producing countries, have to follow our own agenda on the energy transition and not that of third parties. We must use mineral resources to help our countries improve
The African Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) has one billion dollars, which will serve to set up a financial institution, essentially focused on supporting the oil and gas operations of national companies, members of the Organization of Oil Producers (APPO), said Monday, in Luanda, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Sonangol, Gaspar Martins. The official who assumed the presidency of the Forum of national oil companies, as host, during the 3rd Meeting of
Join Our Community The OPEC+ group’s crude oil production rose in September to the highest level since the Saudi-Russia price war of April 2020, but producers in the pact remained a massive 3.6 million barrels per day (bpd) below their collective output quota, the Platts survey by S&P Global Commodity Insights showed. OPEC+ lifted their combined production last month by 170,000 bpd, with Saudi Arabia and Iraq boosting output, but Nigeria and Angola pumped the lowest
Europe is importing record volumes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) this year, looking to replace pipeline gas supply from Russia and wean itself off Russian energy in the wake of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The record LNG imports, however, come at a high cost for European governments, which are spending billions of euros to help vulnerable customers with soaring energy bills and to save struggling utilities that are bleeding money to procure alternative gas supplies.
Oil prices slipped further on Tuesday as the market reassessed the OPEC+ production quota cut, and the IMF warned about the increased risk of a global recession. Oil prices slipped over the weekend and again on Monday as the bump realized from last week’s OPEC+ meeting began to wear off. The prices continued to slip on Tuesday, as the IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank President David Malpass warned the markets on Monday of
The bullish news of the OPEC+ output cut is wearing off, and the market is once again focusing on the possibility of a global recession. Reader Update: The most recent Intelligent Investor report for GEA subscribers details the strengths and weaknesses of two promising oil stocks. The 10-page report is exactly the kind of thing energy investors should be reading ahead of a potential oil price rally. As a member of Global Energy Alert, you will get this report and
The Galp/Shell consortium and the National Petroleum Agency announced that they had drilled a new oil well in São Tomé, which confirms the existence of an “active oil system” in the country. In a statement, the two entities indicate that the initial results of the survey indicate that there is no evidence that the prospect, designated Jaca 1, has a sufficiently large recoverable potential to be commercial. The National Petroleum Agency indicates that the “focus
