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Angola Invites Tenders for Logistics Services for Kassanje Basin Study

Angola’s NATIONAL AGENCY FOR PETROLEUM GAS AND BIOFUELS (ANPG) has thrown open the tender for Acquisition of Assistance and Logistical Support Services for the North and South Lots of the Kassanje Basin, within the scope of the Petroleum Potential Study Project of the Interior Basins of Angola.

Deadline and place for the Submission of Applications: Until December 30, 2020 at 3 pm

Contract performance period: 12 months.

Fuller description of the tender is in this link


First speakers announced for Angola Energy Month

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First Speakers Announced for the Angola Energy Month Programme

In recognition of the importance of the oil and gas industry and the recently announced Presidential Decree; AECIPA (Association of Contracting Companies of the Angolan Oil Industry) has launched Angola Energy Month to take place during December, featuring a series of webinars culminating in the three day virtual Angola Oil and Gas Services and Technology Conference (15-17 December 2020).

The initiative will be held under the high patronage of the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Petroleum, Angola with the virtual Angola Oil and Gas Service and Technology Conference being officially opened by H.E. ENG. José Barroso, Secretary of State for Oil and Gas, Angola.

THE PROGRAMME

Over two complimentary webinars (2nd and 8th December) through to the official conference 15-17 December, Angola Energy Month featuresunparalleled opportunities for networking with Angola’s leaders andestablish business in one of the world’s most lucrative markets.

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AOTC is accessible for all participants with an interest in Angola’s oil and gas industry. The AOTC virtual conference provides a first-class conference program with speakers drawn from industry leaders and global experts in addition to the opportunity to conduct one-to-one meetings with fellow participants.

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Angola, “Creator” of EITI, Formally Applies to Join

By Toyin Akinosho

An incident that occurred in Angola in 2001, led to the formation of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative EITI.

But the country itself had abstained from being part of the international body for these last 19 years.

Now the Angolan Government has formally notified the EITI of its intention to join the 54 countries already implementing the EITI Standard.

The organization recalls, on its website, how opacity in the Angolan oil sector quickened the steps that led to the EITI’s founding.

In February 2001, when BP published the signature bonus of $111Million it paid to the Angolan government for an offshore license and committed to publish more, it sparked a strong reaction from Angola. In his 2010 memoir, “Beyond Business”, Lord John Browne, the then Chief Executive Officer of BP, recalled how he received a cold letter from the head of the Angolan national oil company, Sonangol, stating that, “[I]t was with great surprise, and some disbelief, that we found out through the press that your company has been disclosing information about oil-related activities in Angola”. The backlash and threats from the Angola government, led Lord Browne to conclude “clearly a unilateral approach, where one company or one country was under pressure to ‘publish what you pay’ was not workable”.

The oil companies argued for a shift away from company reporting, to reporting by governments, in order to reduce conflict with host governments and put contracts at risk. If company reporting was to be required, they wanted a global effort to level the playing field that required all companies in a country to disclose.

19 years later, 52 resource-rich states have committed to improving extractives sector transparency by implementing the EITI Standard. Yet Angola has never been a member.

In a letter to the EITI Board Chair, dated 14 September 2020, the Minister of Mineral, Oil and Gas Resources, Diamantino Pedro Azevedo, outlined steps already taken towards EITI implementation.

These include signature of Presidential Order 117/20, appointing the Minister to the role of President of the National Coordination Committee of the EITI, and a public statement announcing the Government’s commitment to joining the initiative.

“The announcement of Angola’s intention to join the EITI is a welcome development,” said the EITI International Secretariat’s Executive Director, Mark Robinson. “We have been working towards this outcome with the Angolan authorities and the Norwegian Government, who have been supportive of our efforts.

In a statement last January, the EITI called on Angola to join the EITI and implement its Standard, in the wake of the Luanda Leaks, in which the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) exposed records allegedly linked to businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the former President of Angola. Some of these revelations concern the country’s state-owned oil company Sonangol, which dos Santos headed until 2017.

The EITI said, then, that it believed that EITI implementation could enable Angola “to make sustained progress in addressing governance challenges in its extractives sector, to the benefit of Angolan citizens.”

 


Angola Rig Activity Drops Again

There are five rigs active on the same number of locations in Angola as of March 28, 2018, which means a drop of one rig compared with the situation on February 28, 2018.

Seadrill’s West Polaris, which was drilling for ExxonMobil on Block 15, has left the country.
ExxonMobil is still an active driller though, so is TOTAL.

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