Investments in oil and gas projects have decreased, and the sanctions have dampened interest in the country’s first licensing round Four years have passed since the U.S. imposed sanctions on South Sudan’s oil industry. The goal had been to prevent oil money from funding the civil war that had been raging since 2013. By curtailing the ability of businesses and organizations to provide revenue for the South Sudanese government, U.S. officials reasoned, they could pressure
The barrel of Brent oil, a reference for Angolan exports, for delivery in November, traded yesterday until close to market closing time, at US$85.3, falling for the first in the last six months to below US$90. At the start of the session, the price of a barrel of Brent oil was fixed at 92 dollars, but on Tuesday, deliveries for November closed, in the London futures market, down 3.04 percent, to 92 .83 dollars. Fears
Angola is, for the month of October, with a quota of 1.52 million barrels/day, the sixth largest of a total of 10 member countries and the ninth if considering the targets set for a group of 20 OPEC producers and not -Opec, a group called OPEC+, which is led by Russia and Saudi Arabia. According to yesterday’s announcement by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), in view of the current fundamentals of the oil
The price of a barrel of Brent oil, which serves as a reference for Angolan exports, for delivery in November ended this Tuesday on the London futures market down 3.04%, to US$92.83. Fears of a decrease in demand for oil, following a global economic slowdown, weighed on Brent trading. This scenario offset the upward momentum registered on Monday and motivated by the decision of the Organization of Petroleum Producing Countries (OPEC), led by Saudi Arabia
The Australian company Lucapa Diamond Company announced this Monday that it had discovered a 160-carat diamond in the same block from which it extracted the “Rosa do Lulo”, the 170-carat diamond discovered at the time in early August, having been considered the largest of this hue, found in 300 years. The new diamond, white, with superior quality of type IIa, is the 28th with more than 100 carats to be extracted from the Lulo Mine
Sonangol, a company that operates along the oil value chain, managed, last year, to maximize the gains resulting from the increase in the prices of crude oil and derivatives observed with the recovery from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, thanks to the adoption of a cost reduction policy, especially at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2020 and 2021. This statement was made by Sonangol EP’s Director of Planning, Edson Pongolola, in an
Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy company, announced on Friday the complete stoppage of supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, due to an oil leak in the Trent 60 gas compressor at Portovaya station. Nord Stream 1, which links Russia to Germany, had already had its supply suspended since Thursday, due to alleged maintenance, but now, Gazprom has cut it and does not advance any forecast for the restoration of gas supply by Nord Stream 1.
Brent, the reference oil for Angolan exports, fell by more than 5 percent this Tuesday, penalized by a new confinement in China and by growing fears of a global recession. At 3 pm, a barrel of North Sea Brent for delivery in October was down 5.05 percent to $99.78 and a barrel of North American WTI oil, for delivery in the same month, lost 4.84 percent to 92.31 dollars. On the supply side, concerns appear
The price of oil closed higher last Friday, the 26th, with Brent (the benchmark for Angolan exports) rising by 1.65 dollars, closing at 100.99 dollars a barrel. US WTI crude oil futures rose 54 cents to trade at $93.06 a barrel. For the week, Brent gained 4.4 percent, while WTI rose 2.5 percent. The rally was driven by signals from Saudi Arabia that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could cut output, but
OPEC oil production rose in August to its highest level since the early days of the pandemic in 2020 as operations in Libya recover, according to Reuters. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) produced 29.58 million barrels per day (bpd) in August, up 690,000 bpd from July and the highest level since April 2020, according to Reuters polls. OPEC and allies, a group known as OPEC+, are backing out of production cuts adopted
