Oil accounts for 90 percent of Angola’s exports to India, which is why trade, currently estimated at US$4 billion, is favorable to the African partner, according to the ambassador to that country. Pratibha Parkar made these statements, Monday 15th May, in Luanda, at the opening of the Angola – India Business Forum, held on the occasion of the visit of 17 companies affiliated to the India – Africa Chamber of Commerce, seeking greater knowledge of
The Brazilian oil company Petrobras reduced, in 2022, oil sales to China from 56 percent of total exports to 42 percent, while increasing volumes destined for Europe, from 14 to 26 percent. According to a report on the results of the first quarter of this year, the Brazilian state-owned company reported that, over the last few years, it has been implementing a “constant search for global opportunities and development of new customers”. decisive for it
Angola signed, last year, five service contracts with international oil companies, which totaled US$9.4 billion, according to data from Energy Capital & Power. According to the company, a leading global investment platform focused on the African energy sector, the five highest value service contracts were signed between 2022 and the current year. The contract with the highest value (US$7.8 billion) was signed in February this year by Azule Energy, the largest independent oil and gas
The National Oil, Gas and Biofuel Agency (ANPG), Total Energies EP Angola and Sonangol Pesquisa e Produção signed, this Tuesday 2nd May, in Luanda, an agreement of principles that makes it possible to make the first development project in the Kwanza Basin feasible. , in Blocks 20 and 21. Valued at around US$5 billion, the development project for the Kwanza Basin, located around 150 kilometers southwest of Luanda, will comprise a floating FPSO-type platform, the
The Nigerian government has decided to postpone the withdrawal of fuel subsidies, because of the need for further preparations and consultations with stakeholders, including the new government. Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, told the press that the Government agreed with the need for continued discussions on the matter, adding that states and representatives of the new government required more preparatory work. “The Council agreed that the time for removal of
The acquisition of 1.2 million metric tons of oil derivatives for sale cost US$803 million in the first quarter of this year, a 3 percent increase over the previous period. Of the quantity purchased for sale, around 48.2 percent corresponds to diesel, 35.3 to gasoline, 9.4 to fuel ordoil, 5.5 to Jet A1, 1.3 to illuminating oil and the remaining 0.2 of asphalt bitumen. Still of the acquisitions made, according to a summary presented on
Companies such as Sonangol, the National Electricity Distribution Company (ENDE) and the National Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANPG) are identified as fundamental to the country’s economic growth, acting as actors for the increase in the Gross Domestic Product, in the creation of jobs and essential services to citizens. According to the platform for investment in the energy sector on the continent, the unprecedented growth that the country has been experiencing in the energy sector,
Following three successful editions that united a strong slate of players from across the regional and global energy landscape, the Angola Oil & Gas (AOG) conference and exhibition makes its return in 2023 for its fourth edition, bringing together African energy and petroleum ministers, global investors and thought-leaders and project developers and service companies to discuss the future of Angolan energy. Building on the event’s long-standing partnership with Angola’s Ministry of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas and
Pumangol has so far created a total of 400 direct jobs and around 2,000 indirect jobs, as part of a strategy that has already implemented 80 fuel filling stations across the country. The data was shared by the chairman of the Board of Directors of the company, Ivanilson Machado, in the interview he gave to Jornal de Economia & Financeira, from Edições Novembro EP As he said, Pumangol is now owned by Sonangol as part
The National Agency of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG), as National Concessionaire and holder of mining rights for prospecting, research, evaluation, development and production of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons throughout Angola, made known, at the end of March of this year, which on September 30, 2023, will proceed with the Launch of the Tender for the Attribution of Petroleum Concessions of Bid 2023, for the oil exploration of the Onshore Basins of the Lower Congo
