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Angola

New Local Company

Energy Equity Resources has teamed up with the Pan African mining firm Mwana to acquire offshore concessions. Two former leading Angolan officials figure among Mwana’s founders.

Subscribers only Energy 04.07.2006

Angola LNG to Export to U.S.

The Angola LNG consortium, which will shortly begin building a liquefaction plant at Soya, is expected to export all of its output to the oil port of Pascagoula in which Sonangol holds a stake.

Subscribers only Energy 04.07.2006

Petra Links with Xceldiam to keep BHP Happy

Petra Diamonds, a firm owned by South Africa’s Adonis Pouroulis, has formed an alliance with the British explorer Xceldiam to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.06.2006

Enigma over Falcon Oil

The local firm Falcon Oil was a big winner of the most recent licensing round in Angola’s offshore but some [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.05.2006

New Push on LNG Front

A project for an American gas terminal in which Angola’s Sonangol holds a stake has won a fresh green light. And Angola will begin to build its liquefaction plant at Soyo next year.

Subscribers only Energy 23.05.2006

Trans Hex Moves for Bigger Luana Role

South Africa’s Trans Hex company had long worked as a subcontractor to Endiama on the Luana diamond concession, conducting sampling [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.05.2006

10th Find on Block 31

A tenth discovery has been made on BP’s highly prolific [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.05.2006

Spotlight
New Frontier for Black South African Business

A safe haven for ANC supporters during the apartheid period, Angola is now a favorite hunting ground for black economic empowerment (BEE) businessmen in the mining branch. Accustomed to working in Angola - it sold $6 million worth of mining [.

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2006

Alrosa

Alrosa and Endiama, represented respectively by Alexander Nichopuruk and Manuel [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2006

Moydow Mines International Inc.

Moydow Mines International Inc., a company listed on the Toronto [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2006

Copper Mine Soon on Line?

According to geology and mines minister Manuel Africano, the British [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2006

Still no deal between SACU and the United States

The negotiation of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the USA and the coutnries of the Southern African Customs Union [...]

Subscribers only Politics 21.04.2006

Portuguese Loan

Portugal has followed on the heels of China in offering a credit line to the Angolan government to finance various [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.04.2006

Local Tactics

The majors are testing their creative powers in bidding for relinquished parts of the oil-rich block 15.

Subscribers only Energy 18.04.2006

Coordinated Bids

Bids for other blocks in Angola’s offshore have been coordinated in remarkable fashion. Just one western oil company and a number of local concerns have put in a bid for each license on offer.

Subscribers only Energy 18.04.2006

Exxon to Relinquish License in Ultra Deep

ExxonMobil is scheduled to hand in block 33 to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.04.2006

Gita Honwana Welch

The director of the UNDP in Angola, Gita Honwana Welch is a Mozambican who has been working for the United [...]

Subscribers only 14.04.2006

Vneshtorgbank Buys into Alrosa

The state-controlled Russian bank Vneshtorgbank has acquired a stake in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.04.2006

Electricity mission to southern Africa

The French government organisation for supporting exports, UbiFrance is planning [...]

Subscribers only 07.04.2006

A Visitor from Portugal

Portuguese prime minister Jose Socrates began a four day official visit to Angola on Monday in the company of officials [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.04.2006

Luanda’s New Ties with Beijing

The Angolan government has contracted Sinopec to build the Lobito refinery. However, the ever-stronger ties between Luanda and Beijing are beginning to worry Western banks.

Subscribers only Energy 04.04.2006

Devon on the Way Out?

One of the rare American independents in Angola, Devon has experienced a lot of woe on its acreage and is thinking of withdrawing.

Subscribers only Energy 04.04.2006

Bringing the Glitter Back to Gems

Angola plans to organize what Luanda is touting as a big "international conference on diamonds" in 2008 in the hope [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.03.2006

Helder Vieira Dias

Named acting chief of Angola’s intelligence agency SIE last month, general Helder Viera Dias has taken over responsibility for the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.03.2006

An Angolan Bank for Alrosa?

Highly active in Angola where it operates the biggest diamond [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.03.2006

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Copper Mine Soon on Line?

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Angola

New Local Company

Angola LNG to Export to U.S.

Petra Links with Xceldiam to keep BHP Happy

Enigma over Falcon Oil

New Push on LNG Front

Trans Hex Moves for Bigger Luana Role

10th Find on Block 31

Spotlight New Frontier for Black South African Business

Alrosa

Moydow Mines International Inc.

Copper Mine Soon on Line?

Still no deal between SACU and the United States

Portuguese Loan

Local Tactics

Coordinated Bids

Exxon to Relinquish License in Ultra Deep

Gita Honwana Welch

Vneshtorgbank Buys into Alrosa

Electricity mission to southern Africa

A Visitor from Portugal

Luanda’s New Ties with Beijing

Devon on the Way Out?

Bringing the Glitter Back to Gems

Helder Vieira Dias

An Angolan Bank for Alrosa?

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About Africa Intelligence

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Africa Intelligence on social media

Indigo Publications' websites

Gabon
The secrets behind the FGIS, a sovereign wealth fund set adrift

Africa
Massad Boulos, a free agent of Donald Trump's African diplomacy under close watch

Spotlight
New Frontier for Black South African Business