Lucapa Diamond appoints new CEO and MD

ASX-listed Lucapa Diamond Company, which holds a 40% interest in the Lulo mine, in Angola, and a 70% interest in the Mothae mine, in Lesotho, has appointed Nick Selby as CEO and MD. Selby has served as interim CEO since August, following former CEO and MD Stephen Wetherall‘s resignation. Selby, an extraction metallurgist, joined Lucapa in October 2014 as COO and was appointed executive director of operations in September 2017. He began his career with De Beers, where

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Sonangol combines deliveries with the Sale of Shipments

Sonangol plans to add the delivery option to the sale of the company’s oil cargoes, thanks to the viability of its shipping fleet between April and September, reinforced with two Suezmax class ships with capacity to transport one million barrels per unit. The decision was announced by the director of Sonangol’s commercialization unit in London, Sandra Júlio, cited yesterday by the “Ngol” program, broadcast by the oil company on RNA, in statements in which she

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Brazil produces 3.4 million barrels of Oil per Day

A total of 3.4 million barrels of oil per day was produced on average by Brazil in August, which represents an increase of 12.2 percent compared to the same month last year. According to data released by the National Petroleum Agency (ABP), in relation to July, production fell 1.4 percent. The maritime fields of the pre-salt oil horizon, which are located in deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean, have once again become the country’s main

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Oil Cartel Leader Warns Of Prolonged High Prices

 The price of oil will continue to stay elevated as demand for energy increases, says the secretary general of Opec+. Opec+ is a group of 23 oil-exporting countries which decides how much crude oil to sell on the world market. “We see demand growing about 2.4 million barrels a day,” Haitham Al Ghais told the BBC. Saudi Arabia said it would be cutting its production of crude oil by a million barrels a day to

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Libya’s Nafusah Oil Operations Connects North Hamada Fields to Mellitah Facilities

Nafusah Oil Operations – a joint venture comprising the Libyan National Oil Corporation, Medco International Ventures Limited and the Libyan Investment Authority – has kickstarted the connection of the North Hamada fields to the El-Feel pipeline and Mellitah oil and gas treatment facilities in Libya. The aim is to ensure the transportation of 10,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the North Hamada fields for processing at Mellitah and monetization both on the local

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Defining Algeria’s Role in Global Energy Markets

Home to an established energy market that provides for a wide range of oil and gas, renewable energy and power distribution investment opportunities, Algeria is well-positioned to serve as a major energy supplier to regional and global markets. The north African country holds up to 159 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas resources and 12.2 billion barrels of oil reserves, producing approximately 970,000 barrels of oil and 9.9 billion cubic feet of gas per

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De Beers reports lower sales as Rough Diamond availability is reduced amid lower Demand

The value of De Beers’ rough diamond sales for the eighth sales cycle of this year decreased to a provisional $200-million, as the diamond miner reduced its rough diamond availability in light of the industry’s midstream working to rebalance certain areas of stock accumulation. De Beers sold $508-million of rough diamonds during the eighth sales cycle of 2022 and $370-million of rough diamonds in the seventh sales cycles of this year. Sightholder and auction sales for

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Diamcor Mining Pursues Up to C$5 Million Term Loan Financing for South African Diamond Mine

Canadian diamond mining company Diamcor Mining, which owns and operates the Krone-Endora at Venetia mine, in South Africa’s Limpopo province, plans to complete a term loan financing of up to C$5-million. The proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, the deployment of additional operational equipment to support increased processing volumes, the continued advancement of the work programmes currently under way at Krone-Endora and to provide the company with additional working capital to offset the timeframes associated with the

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Gem Trader HB Antwerp ends feud as Botswana weighs Diamond sales deal

HB Antwerp, a Belgian gem processor and trader, said that one of its founding members who was fired last month has been reinstated, amid a pending deal with Botswana for the supply of rough stones. Oded Mansori was reinstated as managing partner and director and all four of the company’s founding partners have moved past “internal differences of the last several weeks”, HB Antwerp said in a statement issued late on Monday. The three-year-old company said last month

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Oil Price Forecast: Potential Collapse to $70 per Barrel in 2024

According to forecasts from American finance and insurance giant Citigroup, the barrel of Brent, which serves as a benchmark for a large part of global oil production, could collapse to around $70 in 2024. According to these forecasts published on Monday October 2, 2023, it appears that this collapse estimated at around 70 dollars would be dependent on an expected excess supply. “There is a risk of a significant correction during the fourth quarter of

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