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Botelho de Vasconcelos names team to find investors

Although a shakeup in Angola’s oil sector has primarily targeted Sonangol (see report here), they also concern the oil ministry. [...]

Free access Energy 23.08.2016

Mirage of Lobito refinery fading ever faster

Sonangol has suspended construction of the Lobito refinery in order [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.08.2016

Sonangol in drive to drum up cash

Angolan oil minister Jose Marie Botelho de Vasconcelos announced in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.08.2016

Carvalho acts as Isabel dos Santos’ wild card to rescue Sonangol

The daughter of Angola’s leader is counting on the ex managing director of Chevron in Brazil to help her overhaul the state-owned giant.

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.2016

Tycoon Iskandar Safa tests the waters in Luanda

Privinvest, a firm owned by the Franco-Lebanese businessman, has forged a partnership with the authorities in the hydropower sector.

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.2016

Limpopo gold mine on stream in 2018

Angola is edging closer and closer to joining the club of African gold producers. The gold mine at Limpopo in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.07.2016

Workers question Sumbula on Chitotolo

In an open letter to the chairman of Endiama, Carlos Sumbula, on June 28, workers for Sociedade Mineira do Chitotolo [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.07.2016

State-owned
Isabel dos Santos has Daewoo in a bind

In late June, the chairman of South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.2016

Miranda seeks to retain strong footing in Luanda

Portugal’s Miranda law firm is determined to keep a high [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.07.2016

Nobium : Luanda issues a license

In a few years’ time Angola could join the club [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.06.2016

Luanda gives the nod again to China’s CMEC

The China Machinery Engineering Corp (CMEC) is decidedly on a roll in Angola. In late May the company was awarded [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.06.2016

Isabel dos Santos installs her team at Sonangol

When Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos officially appointed his daughter, Isabel dos Santos, as CEO of Sonangol (AEI 771) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.06.2016

Service company
Petrofac make headway in Luanda thanks to Bumi Armada

The London-based oil engineering firm Petrofac, which is already very [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.06.2016

State-owned
Dos Santos clan believes marginal fields will draw investors

As Africa Energy Intelligence had anticipated (AEI 771), Angolan president [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.06.2016

Trader
Vitol wins from resumption of LNG production

Other companies were in the running, but the Swiss trader [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.06.2016

Opposition lawyers gang up on Isabel dos Santos

Considering that the appointment of Isabel dos Santos, daughter of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.06.2016

KPMG takes a look at restoring railway to Angola

Mining companies in Katanga's copperbelt are waiting for the findings [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.06.2016

Spotlight
Dos Santos clan forces through its oil strategy

Named boss of Angola’s state-owned oil group Sonangol on June 3, Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the country’s president, had been preparing for her coronation for months in league with her father, Jose Eduardo dos Santos.

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2016

Pumangol gets a crucial go-ahead for its projects

With a $300 million project approved by the government, Pumangol has the wherewithal to beef up its storage and distribution capacity.

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2016

Junior
Cobalt’s new boss must liquidate the firm's Angolan assets

When the new CEO of Texas-based Cobalt International Energy, Timothy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2016

Spotlight
The juniors who make hay after Areva fiasco

With the uranium price expected to climb in 2017 explorers are coming into their own in southern Africa and particularly in Namibia where France’s Areva lost well over a billion dollars (AMI 269).The uptick in Japan’s renewed interest in nuclear [.

Subscribers only Mining 31.05.2016

The new gold frontier

Angola could begin producing gold in 2018 as prospecting under [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.05.2016

Services company
EIL lands additional contract for Lobito refinery

The Indian engineering concern Engineers India (EIL), which won the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.05.2016

Sindika Dokolo, husband of Isabel Dos Santos, buys biggest gem

Sindika Dokolo, husband of Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos’ daughter and Africa’s leading [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.05.2016

Special forces to guard diamond concessions?

Angola’s national police force is thinking of training special forces [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.05.2016

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