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
The New Gasoline Production Complex at the Luanda Refinery, recently opened by Sonangol, reached a maximum capacity of 1,580,000 liters of gasoline/day, against the previous 395,000 liters, under safe conditions. According to the coordinator of the project to increase the complex’s gasoline production capacity, João Mayer, reaffirms that with the complex being fully operational, it will reduce expenses with annual fuel imports by 15 percent and will save 300 million euros. of dollars a year,
Alfort Petroleum expects to contribute a 10 percent contribution to the increase in Angola’s oil production, estimated at 1.2 million barrels of oil/day, a strategy adopted after the company recently won the contract for the block 8, in the onshore Cuanza Basin. Speaking to Jornal de Angola, the director general of Alfort Petroleum, Carlos Pallete, said that the ambition of the Angolan oil company is to position itself among the major operators in the oil
The director general of Alfort Petroleum, Carlos Pallete, said in Luanda that the implementation of local content in the oil sector is important for the valorization of the national workforce. According to the director-general, local content is essential for the growth of local companies in the oil sector. “Local content is welcome. What we are going to do is contribute to its implementation, because we have a plan to recruit young interns at universities and train
Angola and the European Union are set to start talks for a trade deal this year after EU and African partners approved a request from the oil-producing nation to join a regional trade bloc, according to an EU document and an official. The green light to start negotiations came in late July, an EU document shows, shortly before the southern African country holds general elections next week. “We are now in a position to open
Last fall, I wrote (https://bit.ly/3zPqScP) about the importance of African governments doing everything they could to encourage international oil companies (IOCs) to continue operating in their countries. IOCs play an important role in supporting economic growth, job creation, capacity building, and knowledge sharing. Currently, two IOCs in particular — Azule Energy in Angola and Shell Petroleum Development Corporation of Nigeria (SPDC) — have tremendous promise to deliver those benefits on a long-term basis. Azule Energy,
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
Azule Energy, the new joint venture of British BP and Italian ENI in Angola, was officially presented this Monday in Luanda. With the assumed ambition of turning this joint venture into the largest oil and gas production company in the country, the first objectives were set: production of 250,000 barrels/day over the next five years and a leading role in the natural gas subsector. In a statement, ENI said that Azule Energy wants to be
The national oil concessionaire, TotalEnergies and the associates of Block 48 signed this Thursday, in Luanda, contracts for the exploration of three blocks in the Congo onshore Basin and another five in the Kwanza onshore Basin. At the ceremony, the president of the National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG), Paulino Jerónimo, stressed that the signing of the contracts is the culmination of a long negotiation process. Paulino Jerónimo “strongly” congratulated the investors, partners
Canadian oil company MTI Energy begins this year with seismic studies to explore the shared blocks of the Congo and Kwanza onshore basins, tendered by the National Agency of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG) With a production of 25,000 barrels of oil/day, MTI Energy will explore Block 5, in the Congo basin, where it has a 50 percent share in production. In this basin, the Canadian oil company shares exploration with Prodoil (15 percent), Prodiaman
