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De Beers Board Member Matome Tsholetsa Malema Passes Away Sodiam Raises $25.8 Million in 16th Rough Diamond Auction Shell Reaffirms Commitment to Reviving Angola’s Oil Production Sonangol Oil Tanker Damaged by Explosion Near Iraqi Port Angola and Namibia Advance Energy Cooperation with Focus on Electricity Interconnection Oil Hits Multi-Year High as Iran Conflict Escalates, Boosting Vegoils and Aluminium Ghana Prepares Alternative Gold Export Routes Amid Dubai Flight Disruptions Global Oil Prices Surge Amid Rising Tensions in the Middle East Middle East Tensions Send Oil Prices Higher, Raising Inflation Risks for Africa Uganda Central Bank Launches Domestic Gold Purchase Programme to Boost Reserves
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De Beers Board Member Matome Tsholetsa Malema Passes Away

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Sodiam Raises $25.8 Million in 16th Rough Diamond Auction

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Shell Reaffirms Commitment to Reviving Angola’s Oil Production

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De Beers Board Member Matome Tsholetsa Malema Passes Away

De Beers Board Member and Minerals Development Company Botswana CEO Matome Tsholetsa Malema Dies Global…
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Sodiam Raises $25.8 Million in 16th Rough Diamond Auction

Angola’s Sodiam Generates $25.8 Million in Rough Diamond Auction, Surpassing Expectations Angola’s National Diamond Trading…
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Shell Reaffirms Commitment to Reviving Angola’s Oil Production

Shell Pledges Support for Angola’s Oil Production Revival as Company Returns After 20 Years Shell…
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Sonangol Oil Tanker Damaged by Explosion Near Iraqi Port

Sonangol Tanker Hit by Explosion Near Iraq’s Khor al Zubair Port; Crew Safe and Vessel…
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Angola and Namibia Advance Energy Cooperation with Focus on Electricity Interconnection

Angola and Namibia Strengthen Energy Ties, Discuss Power Interconnection and Baynes Hydroelectric ProjectAngola and Namibia…
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Oil Hits Multi-Year High as Iran Conflict Escalates, Boosting Vegoils and Aluminium

Oil Surges 25% to Highest Since 2022 Amid Iran War, Driving Vegoils and Aluminium Prices…
Local Gold News

Gold Refinery in Luanda Nears Completion, Expected to Open in 2025

The Gold Refinery project in the municipality of Viana, Luanda, is on track for completion, with expectations of inauguration in the first half of 2025, announced Domingos Baptista, the general director of Geoangol. Speaking at the Workshop on Mineral Resources and the Gold Value Chain in Huambo province, Baptista stated that the construction progress stands at 50%, with anticipation for completion by the end of the year. Baptista emphasized that the refinery project involves 23

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Local Mining News

Angola-Japan Partnership Boosts Geological Studies with $3 Million Aid

The Geological Institute of Angola (IGEO) is set to enhance its geological studies across the country, thanks to a generous non-refundable financial aid of three million dollars from Japan. The announcement was made by the Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Angolan Communities during the signing ceremony of the Exchange of Notes on the Implementation of the Economic and Social Development Program in Mineral Resources. The aid, part of the Cooperation Protocol between IGEO

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International Oil Petroleum

Equatorial Guinea: Petrofac Secures $350M Contract to Support NOC

International service provider Petrofac has been awarded a $350 million technical services contract by Equatorial Guinea’s NOC GEPetrol. In support of Equatorial Guinea’s Block B assets, Petrofac will deliver services across onshore support bases, an FPSO and a platform on behalf of GEPetrol – which serves as the block’s operator – for five years. “We will grow our economy through diverse partnerships and investment in our people. Combining our strong indigenous capabilities, with Petrofac’s global

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Diamonds Economy Local News

SODIAM raises 17 million dollars in Diamond auction

The National Diamond Trading Company of Angola (SODIAM) raised, this Friday 19th April, 17 million dollars with the sale of 636.28 carats (auction of 20 special stones). According to a press release, these are rough diamond productions from the Mining Companies of LULO SOMILUANA, CHITOTOLO, UARI and KAIXEPA.  The evaluation sessions took place from the 11th to the 18th of this month, at SODIAM’s facilities in Luanda, with bids being submitted electronically on the online

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Diamonds International News

De Beers Sales Down but on Road to Rebound

Proceeds at De Beers’ third rough-sales cycle of the year remained sluggish compared to a year earlier but continued to see improvement despite entering a traditionally slow period for the industry. The miner brought in $445 million in April, down 18% versus the equivalent period in 2023, it said Wednesday. However, that figure is 3% higher than the $431 million the company reported at its second sight of the year, which ran from February 26 to March

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Diamonds International News

Petra’s Rough Prices Continue to Slip Amid Weak Demand

Petra Diamonds’ rough prices decreased at its latest tender, as smaller goods experienced seasonal weakness. The fifth trading session, which took place in April, brought in $49 million from the sale of 362,132 carats, while like-for-like prices slipped 1% versus February, the miner reported Tuesday. Of the total, $8.2 million came from the sale of a 14.76-carat, blue diamond from the Cullinan mine in South Africa. The sales value was up 3% from February’s $48 million and

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Diamonds Infrastructure News

Rio Tinto Diamond Output Falls Amid Bereavement Pause

Production at Rio Tinto’s Diavik mine in Canada slid in the first quarter after the miner halted production to allow workers to grieve for colleagues who died in a plane crash. Output fell 22% year on year to 740,000 carats for the three months that ended March 31, Rio Tinto said Tuesday. However, production was 12% higher than the previous quarter, during which the miner closed two kimberlite pipes and produced lower-grade ore. The company

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International News Oil

Global oil refining capacity at high risk of closure

As much as 3.6 million barrels a day (mmbd) of global refinery capacity has been assessed as being under high-risk of closure, according to Wood Mackenzie’s latest refinery closure threat analysis. The report ‘Global refinery closure threat update’ shortlists 120 out of 465 refining assets at high, medium, or low risk of closure based on 2030 net cash margin (NCM) forecasts. The total global refinery capacity at some risk of closure amounts to 19.95 mmbd,

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Local Infrastructure News

76 percent of Construction halted at the end of 2023

Seventy-six percent of the country’s works were at a standstill in the third quarter of last year, according to figures from the National Statistics Institute (INE), which say that, of 3,125 buildings visited in that period, 2,404 were inactive. The numbers are included in the Quarterly Survey of Progress and Monitoring of Buildings in the Construction Process (ITAEPC), a document produced to characterize the progress of the construction of private buildings in the country’s main

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International Gas News

PetroSA Expands Gas Supply with Mozambique Deal

PetroSA, South Africa’s state-owned oil and gas company, is gearing up for the arrival of gas shipments from Mozambique’s ENH later this year. This move is part of PetroSA’s strategy to boost energy reserves and mitigate potential shortages. Having secured a gas trading license from regulators in March, PetroSA wasted no time in finalizing a deal for an initial 2 petajoules of gas annually, with plans to increase this to 200 petajoules in the future.

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