The country will raise US$27 billion with the extension of the concession of Block 0 in the maritime zone of Cabinda province, for another 20 years, until 2050, advanced, Minister of Mineral Resources, Petroleum. and Gas, Diamantino Azevedo said yesterday, february 23, in Luanda. The minister was speaking at the National Assembly, during the discussion and approval of the Legislative Authorization Project that authorizes the President of the Republic, as holder of the Executive Power,
Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil giant, Saudi Arabia, is now the world’s third-largest company by market capitalization, according to the companiesmarketcap.com list. Aramco, with a market cap of $1.903 trillion, slid to the number three position behind Apple ($2.413T) and Microsoft ($1.920T). Just two months ago, in mid-December, Aramco held the Number two position with a market cap of $1.81T, behind only Apple. And before that, In May of last year, Aramco was sitting at the
Brent (a benchmark for Angolan exports) for delivery in April started this week’s session (yesterday 21st February) on a high, at US$83.53 a barrel, i.e. 0.53 percent more compared to the close of markets on Friday. fair. Oil showed a daily range of 82.75 – 84.30 dollars. On Friday 17th feb, Brent crude fell $2.14, or 2.5 percent, to $83.00 a barrel, ending the week down 3.96 percent, as traders worried that future rises in interest
Engen Petroleum, a South African oil firm that specializes in downstream refined petroleum products and associated companies, and Vivo Energy, a British downstream petroleum company with subsidiaries and operations in 23 countries across Africa, have merged their African operations to form one of the continent’s largest energy distribution firms. The merged group will have approximately 3,900 service stations and more than two billion liters of storage capacity, across 27 African nations. Engen, which is the
Despite increased opposition from a number of groups, Uganda maintains that its oil dream is still alive. This week, one of those groups filed a complaint against insurer Marsh in the US for brokering underwriting services for the $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop). Approximately ten environmental and human rights organizations from Tanzania and Uganda accused Marsh of breaking rules for ethical corporate conduct on February 7 because of the company’s participation in
With Namibia’s energy sector on the precipice of rapid transformation on the back of recent oil and gas discoveries, the African Energy Chamber (AEC) will establish an office in the country dedicated to promoting local content development efforts. The AEC will engage with various stakeholders across the Namibian energy industry, including national and international oil companies, the government and service companies, utilizing a multi-tiered approach to scaling up local talent and capabilities. The office will
Antonio Oburu Ondo, Equatorial Guinea’s recently appointed Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, has awarded independent exploration and production company, Panoro Energy, a 56% participating interest and operatorship in Block EG-01 offshore the hydrocarbon-rich West African country, as well as Canadian oil and gas company, the Africa Oil Corporation, two production sharing contracts (PSC) for offshore Blocks EG-18 and EG-31. With the PSCs, the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons, under the leadership of Minister Ondo, has
BP Oil International will be Sonangol’s gasoline supplier for the next 12 months of the current year, the same period in which Trafigura will be responsible for supplying diesel to the national oil company, as winners of the public tender held on 6 January to February 14, within the framework of the Logistics Superintendence of the Petroleum Derivatives System, which establishes the award for each of the products. According to a note sent to Jornal
The oil industry in the DRC, with Perenco as the main operator, produced 8.430 million barrels of oil during the whole of 2022 against 8.355 million barrels in 2021, a slight drop in production of 25,000 barrels recorded from one year to another, according to figures from the Central Bank of Congo. For the past five years, oil production in the DRC has stagnated around 8 million barrels per year. Hence, the hope of increasing
Oil giant Total is the majority shareholder in Uganda’s first major oil drilling programme, writes Charlotte Cosset and Juliet Pietri for Radio France Internationale. Uganda discovered crude reserves estimated at 6.5 billion barrels, with 1.4 billion recoverable nearly two decades ago, in the western region in the Lake Albertine basin, Kingfisher and Tilenga oilfields. When production starts, it is estimated that nearly 200,000 barrels can be produced daily. To meet these targets, the project is divided into two parts. The first
