Angola’s Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuel (ANPG) and Chevron’s local subsidiary CABGOC have announced the start of production from the Lifua-A project within Block 0. Chevron intends to develop the Lifua reserves via three different phases, Lifua-A, -B, and -C. Phase A relies on a stacked template structure (STS) platform with ten wells, including […]

Baker Hughes an energy technology company, has been awarded a major contract to provide subsea equipment and services by Azule Energy for work in the Agogo oilfield, offshore Angola. This award represents the first major new greenfield project awarded in offshore Angola in more than five years. The scope of work includes 23 standard subsea trees, 11 Aptara manifolds, SemStar5 fiber optic controls and […]

Eni CEO, Claudio Descalzi, and the CEO of Sonatrach, Toufik Hakkar, have signed in Algiers two agreements which outline future joint projects on energy supply, energy transition and decarbonisation. The agreements were signed in the presence of the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, and the President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, Abdelmadjid […]

Afentra has announced that it has received approval from the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas for the acquisition from INA-Industrija d.d. (INA) of a 4% interest in Block 3/05 and 4% interest1 in Block 3/05A offshore Angola (the INA Acquisition) pursuant to a sale and purchase agreement between INA and Afentra’s wholly-owned subsidiary, […]

PTTEP  an Angolan Incorporated company (PANG), and subsidiary of PTTEP, has entered into a Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) to sell its entire 2.5% participation interest in Block 17/06 Project in Angola to SOMOIL BLOCO 17/06 (SU), S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sociedade Petrolifera Angolana, S.A (SOMOIL). Completion of the sale is expected by […]

Yinson Production (YP) is the offshore production business unit of Yinson Holdings Berhad, a global energy infrastructure and technology company headquartered in Malaysia. The Group has businesses in offshore production, renewables, green technologies and offshore marine, and a presence in 18 countries, has recently sealed an Agreement for Preliminary Activities (APA) with Azule Energy), through […]

Afentra provides the following update regarding the previously announced Angolan acquisitions. Sonangol Acquisition On 28 April 2022, the Company announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Afentra (Angola) Ltd, had signed a sale and purchase agreement (the ‘SPA’) with Sonangol Pesquisa e Producao S.A. (‘Sonangol’) to purchase non-operating interests in Block 3/05 and Block 23, offshore Angola. […]

As part of its plan to strengthen and diversify gas supplies to Italy, Eni has begun providing additional volumes of liquefied natural gas to the regasification terminal of Panigaglia (La Spezia) ahead of the 2022-2023 winter. The first cargo was delivered on Sunday with supplies coming from Angola, reloaded on smaller ships at Spanish terminals […]

bp and Eni have confirmed that Azule Energy, the new 50/50 independent joint venture combining the two companies’ Angolan businesses, has been officially established. Azule Energy is now Angola’s largest independent equity producer of oil and gas, holding 2 billion barrels equivalent of net resources and growing to about 250,000 barrels equivalent a day (boe/d) […]

As part of the rollout of its multi-energy strategy in Angola, TotalEnergies has announced the launch of the Begonia oil field, and Quiluma and Maboqueiro gas fields developments, as well as its first photovoltaic project in the country, with a capacity of 35 MWp and the possibility of adding 45 MWp in a second phase. […]