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SONANGOL UNIVERSO ISSUE 45 – MARCH 2015 OVERVIEW

Universo is the international magazine of Sonangol President Francisco de Lemos José Maria

Executive administrators: Anabela Soares de Brito da Fonseca, Ana Joaquina Van-Dúnem Alves da Costa, Fernandes Gaspar Bernardo Mateus, Fernando Joaquim Roberto, Mateus Sebastião Francisco Neto, Paulino Fernando Carvalho Jerónimo Non-executive administrators: Albina Assis Africano, José Gime, André Lelo, José Paiva Angop

Sonangol Department for President José Eduardo dos Santos, with Presidents Kabila (DRC) on his left Communication & Image Director and Lungu (Zambia) on his right, opens the Benguela Railway Mateus Cristóvão Benza Shutterstock Corporate Communications Assistants Nadiejda Santos, Paula Almeida, Hélder Sirgado, Kimesso Kissoka

Publisher: Sheila O’Callaghan AFRICAN GATEWAY Editor: John Kolodziejski Managing Editor: Mauro Perillo Art Director: Tony Hill resident José Eduardo dos Santos’ official opening Sub Editor: Brian MacReamoinn of Angola’s 1,344km Benguela Railway on February Proofreading: Gail Nelson-Bonebrake P 14 represents an enormous step-change not only in Circulation Manager: Matthew Alexander the country’s own logistics system, but also in the broader Production Assistant: Sebnem Brown development of the African economy. Project Consultant: Nathalie MacCarthy Completion of the $1.9 billion line refurbishment now Group President: John Charles Gasser offers copper-rich neighbours Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), whose presidents also attended the event, a faster and shorter route to the sea and markets abroad. The new connection will also provide central Africa Universo is produced by Impact Media Custom Publishing. The views expressed in the publication are not necessarily with cheaper fuel, especially once the Lobito oil refinery starts those of Sonangol or the publishers. Reproduction in whole up in 2017, as well as greater flows of farm produce within or in part without prior permission is prohibited. and between countries. Huge areas of potential farmland in This magazine is distributed to a closed circulation. eastern Angola and western Zambia will now have easier To receive a free copy: [email protected] access to international markets and also the chance to help Circulation: 15,000 solve the continent’s enduring risk of food scarcity.

Davenport House, 16 Pepper Street, London E14 9RP The inauguration of the Benguela Railway marks United Kingdom the end of the first phase of renovation of Angola’s basic Tel + 44 20 7510 9595 | Fax +44 20 7510 9596 infrastructure. Its multiple effects on economic growth will [email protected] www.universo-magazine.com soon be felt over a much larger area. www.sonangol.co.ao [email protected] John Kolodziejski Front cover: Kostadin Luchansky Editor Universo is printed on FSC approved stock

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4 3 NEWS BRIEFING

A roundup of national and international news concerning Sonangol and Angola. 12

12 3 SONAIR: UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE

Sonangol’s air transport arm goes from strength to strength. Universo monitors its progress to date.

20 3 SONILS OSC: SERVING ANGOLA 20 The Sonils oil service centre plays a pivotal role in the Angolan economy. ExxonMobil

30 3 EXXONMOBIL IN ANGOLA: HAPPY 21ST

We take stock of ExxonMobil’s successful operations in Angola as it celebrates a 21-year presence in the country. 30

36 3 ISPTEC: THE EDUCATION ANGOLA NEEDS

Universo looks at what is on offer for students at the fast-growing vocational college.

42 3 THE SCIENCE OF ART 42

Angolan artist Daniela Ribeiro examines the interfaces between art and technology.

48 3 TARGET: TWO MILLION BARRELS Production and investment updates for Sonangol. 48

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ANGOLAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENTS MEET

3 President José Eduardo dos Santos met South African President Jacob Zuma in Luanda on January 13 to discuss the current political, military and security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as well as regional and international current affairs. President dos Santos chairs the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), which works towards peace and security in the region. President Zuma is co-ordinator of the Organ for Politics, Defence and Security of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) of which Angola is a member. Angop

ANGOLAN STOCK MARKET LAUNCHED FIRST PRIVATE 3 The Angolan Stock Exchange BODIVA (Bolsa da Dívida e Valores de OIL COLLEGE Angola) officially opened for business on December 19. The exchange will initially only negotiate the public (treasury) debt. 3 Angola has opened its first private oil training António Gomes Furtado, president of BODIVA’s board and former college, the Oil Research and Studies Institute (IPEP), governor of Angola’s Central Bank (Banco Nacional de Angola - BNA), said on a purpose-built campus in the Morro Bento district corporate debt would be traded within the next two years. The exchange’s of Luanda. first client was Banco de Fomento de Angola (BFA) on January 26. IPEP’s board president, João da Cunha e Sousa, said the new college will help train specialists for the oil

industry and support the Angolanisation of its workforce. Shutterstock Courses offered include Oil Law, Drilling and Well Management and Well Management, Refining Techniques, Health and Safety, Instrumentation Methods, Telecommunications Systems, Oil Industry Business Management and Environmental Safety Management.

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SONANGOL GETS CHINESE LOAN

3 China has lent Sonangol $2 billion to support the expansion of oil and gas projects. Sonangol board president Francisco de Lemos José Maria and the president of the China Development Bank, Zheng Zhijie, signed the contract in Beijing on December 12. Angola is currently China’s second largest oil supplier.

SONANGOL TANKER POOL GROWS

3 Sonangol has ordered two new oil tankers from South Korean company Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). The companies signed the $140 million deal in Seoul on December 15. The two Suezmax (maximum size for using the Suez Canal) vessels will be 274 metres long and 48 metres wide and each will weigh 156,290dwt (dry weight tonnes). Norwegian company DNV-GL will supervise construction of the ships, which DSME will deliver in 2017. Sonangol also currently has two oil prospecting ships under construction at DSME for delivery by June 2016.

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NEW CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR Angop

3 José Pedro de Morais took office as the new governor of Angola’s Central Bank (Banco Nacional de Angola - BNA) on January 23. He replaced José de Lima Massano, who resigned Shutterstock after serving more than four years in the post.

ANGOLAN STEERS EXPO MILANO 2015

3 Angola’s former oil minister and Sonangol non- executive administrator, Albina Assis Africano, is the first African to be president of an Expo steering commission and is currently heavily involved in the preparatory work for Expo Milano 2015. The international exhibition takes place in the Italian city from May 1 to October 31. Assis Africano has huge experience in the area. This year she is commissioner of the Angola pavilion and was previously a commissioner general at Aichi Expo (Japan 2005), Zaragoza (Spain 2008), Shanghai (China 2010) and Yeosu (Korea 2012). Expo Milano 2015’s theme is Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life and will have 140 participating countries.

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EAST TIMOR PROSPECTING INVITATION SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND BACKS INFRASTRUCTURE Shutterstock 3 Angola’s sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is investing $1.6 billion in a special fund for African infrastructure and hotels. Angola established the SWF in 2012 with initial capital of $5 billion from the country’s oil sales. As well as investing in energy, transport and industrial projects, Angola 3 East Timor has invited Sonangol to will use $500 million to buy hotels, which will be prospect for oil on its territory. The managed by private international groups. country’s deputy minister for foreign One investment is in the Angolan Hotel affairs and co-operation, Constâncio Management Academy, now under construction Pinto made the offer during a meeting in Brasilia in January with Angola’s in Benguela. Teachers from the prestigious foreign minister, Georges Chikoti (pictured below). Lausanne Hotel School (Switzerland) will provide “We know that Sonangol is already in Asia – in Singapore – and we want training for the students who will eventually run it to expand its activity in East Timor. We have natural resources offshore Angola’s rapidly-expanding hotel sector. and onshore and we believe that the Angolan oil company may invest in prospecting and exploration for oil,” Pinto explained. Both Angola and the Asian nation are former Portuguese colonies.

TRAIN TAKES THE STRAIN

3 Sonangol is developing alternative means to transport oil and diesel to its eastern provinces: Lunda Norte, Lunda Sul and Moxico. The new route uses the Benguela Railway via Huambo and Luena. Sonangol took the rail option after a key road bridge in Lunda Sul collapsed, cutting access to the provinces. The success of the project has been such that Sonangol has decided to use rail transport in future even when road access resumes. Shutterstock

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BIOCOM ENDS BETA PHASE COHYDRO CO-OPERATION 3 Biocom (Companhia de Bioenergia de Angola) has completed its experimental period of producing 3 Sonangol signed a partnership agreement in January with Cohydro SA of sugar and ethanol and generating energy. the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to jointly drill oil and gas. Work Official inauguration of the plant at Cacuso in will target the corridor between DRC and Angola in the area known as the Malange province, due by March, will ramp up ‘zone of common interest’. annual output to 256,000 tonnes of sugar, 28,000 cubic metres of ethanol and generation of 235GW of electricity. The Biocom project is a partnership between Angolan private investment agency ANIP and Sonangol Holdings with 20 per cent, and Angolan private group Damer and Brazil’s Odebrecht, each with 40 per cent. The complex employs 2,700 workers and also supports 30,000 families in the surrounding area with health, education and farming projects.

ENI CONTINUES DRILLING

3 Italian oil company Eni has been granted a ANGOLA’S SLAM DUNK three-year extension to its agreement to drill oil in Angola’s Block 15/06. The original arrangement ended in November 2014. The extension includes drilling in the estimated 100 million barrel Reco-Reco discovery. Since taking on the block in 2006, Eni has discovered more than 3 billion barrels of oil and 850 million barrels in reserves. The plan is to drill three wells and undertake Shutterstock 1,000 sq kms’ of 3D seismic mapping. Eni, the operator, and Sonangol P&P 3 Angola’s female basket team won the trophy at the fourth Southern Africa each have a 35 per cent stake in Block 15/06, Development Community games beating Mozambique 41–39. It was the women’s while SSI Fifteen has 25 per cent and Falcon third consecutive gold in the regional championship, which was held in December Oil Holding Angola has 5 per cent. in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, Angola’s men completed ‘the double’ over Mozambique by winning their competition 54–49 in the final.

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FPSO N’GOMA READY FOR ACTION

3 SBM Offshore received a formal Production Readiness Notice (PRN) in January for FPSO N’Goma from its client Eni, the operator of Block 15/06. This follows first oil in November 2014 and completion of a 72-hour continuous production test in early December 2014. The FPSO is on hire to Eni for 12 years starting from November 28, 2014. N’Goma will work on Eni’s West Hub in Block 15/06. Kostadin Luchansky

CABINDA $400M PORT PROJECT MALANGE WRITER WINS SONANGOL PRIZE 3 Work on a new $400 million deepwater port in Cabinda province is to begin in June 2015. 3 Entre a Verdade e a Mentira (Between Truth and Lies), a romance The port will be located at Caio, 15km north of by Malange author João Luís Oliveira, has won the 2015 Sonangol Cabinda, and is expected to become an important logistics Revelation Literature Prize. The $10,000 prize was first awarded in 1987. centre for the whole Lower Congo Basin area, including Jury president and secretary of state for culture Cornélio Calei the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo. said Oliveira won the prize because his book showed mastery of Caio will serve not only long-distance shipping but language and narrative as well as “truths hidden within the letters”. also roll-on, roll-off freight and passenger coastal services “We’re in a period of constructing the country’s identity, and linking Cabinda with Soyo and Luanda. Construction is literature has a special role to play,” said Calei. scheduled to take 24 months and includes a 775-metre Another author, Carlos Nelson Álvaro Sebastião, received an quay with a 12.5-metre-deep mooring. honourable mention for his book Uma Noite e Três Sonhos (One Night and Three Dreams).

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SONANGOL REVAMPED BENGUELA RAILWAY REACHES DRC SCHOLARSHIPS IN FRANCE 3 Reconstruction of the 1,344km Benguela Railway, Angola’s longest line, 3 France is to accept 50 Angolan has been completed, and now reaches the students as part of a scholarship border with the Democratic Republic of agreement with Sonangol E.P. The the Congo (DRC). President José Eduardo protocol was signed by the board dos Santos led the official inauguration president of Sonangol Academy, ceremony on February 14. Dr. Baltazar Miguel, and the French The railway connects the Atlantic port ambassador to Angola, Jean- of Lobito to networks in central, eastern Claude Moyret. The students will and southern Africa. The line’s original attend higher education courses purpose was to export copper faster in Engineering and Technology, from central Africa and there are plans Geosciences and Economics. to resume this traffic.

FMC NETS $393M CONTRACT

3 FMC Technologies announced on December 18 that it had received a $393 million order from Eni Angola to supply subsea production systems for its deepwater Block 15/06 East Hub development, in which Sonangol P&P Shutterstock Shutterstock has a 35 per cent interest.

ANGOLA IN NUMBERS 12 MILLION $1.6 BILLION TONNES Angola’s sovereign wealth cargo handled at fund investment in African Port of Luanda in 2014 infrastructure and hotels $600 $2.4 BILLION 10,000 MILLION amount ExxonMobil spent on SonAir’s annual turnover Kizomba Satellites Phase Two personnel working at Sonils Oil (first oil due late 2015) Service Centre, Luanda

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SONAEXPO 2015

3 Sonangol E.P. held its second exhibition of products and services: SonaExpo 2015 between February 25 and 28 as part of the company’s 39th anniversary commemorations. The exhibition, open to the general public, took place at the main square on the shore of Luanda Bay, a five-minute walk from Sonangol’s headquarters. 12 of Sonangol’s subsidiaries were represented at SonaExpo 2015 and 26 industrial units that belong to Sonangol Investimentos Industriais, SIIND. The colourful stalls displaying Sonangol’s products and services were arrayed in the two huge white exhibition tents covering a total Sonangol President floor space of 2,100 square metres. Francisco de Lemos José Maria Brazuk Ltd

Sonangol Department for Communication and Image Director Mateus Cristóvão Benza

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SonAir Super Puma helicopter at CLOV FPSO

12 SONANGOL UNIVERSO Sonangol’s air transport subsidiary, SonAir, has performed a vital supporting role in Angola’s booming oil operations for 35 years. Universo inspects the fleet and recounts the story so far SonAir: UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE

he long jumble of hangars, parked aircraft, support vehicles and passenger terminals Treveals the ad hoc growth of Luanda’s 4 de Fevereiro International Airport over the past half- century. Amid this maze of buildings and purposeful activity, SonAir’s sleekly pristine, white Super Puma EC225 helicopters attract the eye. Set back from the airport apron, where humid heat rises from concrete surfaces, is the cool, spacious, ordered hangar containing the bulk of the company’s helicopter fleet. Airbus Helicopters and Sikorsky provide SonAir with the shiny modern workhorses capable of ferrying up to 19 people at a time out to offshore platforms. SonAir enjoys a strong international reputation and has earned praise from its demanding international oil company clientele, who rate it in the top ten in its field worldwide. The Angolan company has come a long way since

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its foundation in 1979, when staff “There’s no possible comparison [Sonangol E.P.] of the need to strengthen numbered just four and they managed between what was practised three and this business,” he said. all operations, including supplies and a half decades ago and today. They are “We are close to the ideal ratio maintenance, from a single room in completely different situations, with to cover the needs of the number of Sonangol’s old downtown headquarters totally different solutions. However, machines versus the number of people. before moving to an on-site location at the focus was and continues to be the This is thanks to the change in training the airport. same: that is, to serve the oil industry,” investment policy which gives priority “They were difficult years to begin said Andrade. to our core business, something that with,” recalled João Alves Andrade, board SonAir’s fleet also had modest we failed to do for some time in the president of SonAir. “In 1980 we began beginnings. past. This policy should be a continuous the process of recruitment and selection “The first fixed-wing aircraft was a process, taking into account the fleet’s of the first trainee pilots and mechanics. Dakota DC-3, bought from TAAG [Angolan growth, the demands of the market and At that time we were jacks-of-all-trades,” Airlines], and the first helicopter was an refreshing the workers’ age range. Andrade explained. “We did everything, Alouette III, leased from Heli-Union. Our “We are also dedicating special from dispatching a flight to ordering the first client was Texaco.” attention to our support areas, seeking catering and repairing breakdowns and efficiency and operational excellence. doing the maintenance. And all this was Personnel pride “Another source of pride is on foot! We didn’t have a car to drive Andrade said he has many reasons to be recognition by our clients of the high- around the airport area. But we did these proud of SonAir. quality standards of service, safety and things with passion, with love, with “First of all, I would like to mention reliability we provide by their choosing dedication. We transformed the difficulties my team, which is made up of all SonAir, and lastly, our certification and into simple tasks, but they were well SonAir’s workers, our main asset, with recognition by the aeronautical authority done,” he remembered with affection. whom I have the greatest pride in as an approved air operator,” he added. Ten years later, SonAir’s personnel working. I’m also proud to see and know “When we hear clients say that we had risen to 120. Today the company’s the record of growth of this company have nothing to learn from the big world staff numbers a total of 997 and all are over the past 35 years. The basis of this operators in terms of operations and comfortably accommodated in an office growth is its workers and the clear- service provision, it’s recognition of our purpose-built in 2005. sighted vision of the parent company know-how.” SonAir key data

Milestones Key numbers Operational bases

1979 3 Beginning of operations as Sonangol 997 total staff 3 Luanda Aeronautical Division 240 pilots 3 Soyo 1985 3 Evolved to business unit Direcção de Aeronáutica (DAR) with slightly more autonomy 157 engineers 3 Catumbela

1998 3 Constituted as SonAir Serviço Aéreo SA (90% 33 helicopters 3 Benguela Sonangol, 10% Sonangol Holdings) 24 planes 3 Houston, Texas 2005 3 Inauguration of SonAir head office at Luanda airport

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What does SonAir do? Brazuk Ltd

Helicopter pilot Neusa Oliveira

Helicopter services behalf of SonAir and reserved for United States-Africa Energy SonAir provides a frequent service of offshore helicopter Association (USAEA) members. Planes are also available for flights to ferry personnel to and from offshore oil platforms short-term contracts such as carrying government officials where most Angolan oil and gas drilling takes place. South of to Angola’s more remote provinces. This secondary market the River Zaire, the company provides almost all helicopter accounts for 21.5 per cent of earnings. services in Angola, which accounts for around 54.7 per cent of its total annual revenues of over $600 million. Aircraft fleet The fleet is dedicated to supporting oil operating In 2014, the fleet comprised a total of 57 aircraft, of which companies. The growth of helicopter numbers from 16 to 30 SonAir operated 50 (28 helicopters and 22 planes) and sub- in the past decade, and the employment of larger models, contracted other outfits for the remaining seven. reflect Angola’s expansion into its deepwater oilfields which Since its foundation in 1979, the Sonangol subsidiary lie further offshore. Block 31 at 384km from Luanda is the has utilised a large range of aircraft. Its first helicopter was longest distance helicopters travel offshore, and the shortest an Alouette III, and today it flies Dauphin N3, Sikorsky C++, distance is 112km (Block 21). Super Puma 332 L2 and EC225. SonAir’s first plane was a Fleet expansion also tracks the increasing number of oil Dakota DC-3; the fleet now includes Beechcraft 1900, Twin operating companies that have flocked to the country. Otter and Boeing 737-700 planes. Over the past 10 years SonAir has expanded and adapted SonAir is the largest helicopter operator in Africa as well its aircraft fleet from a total of 43 to 57 while simultaneously as the main Super Puma EC225 helicopters user and biggest reducing the number of helicopter types it operates from owner of Sikorsky C++ machines. six to four, and plane models from eight to four. This concentration permits a greater focus and development of Pilot at the controls expertise, especially in maintenance procedures.

Fixed-wing operations SonAir’s fixed-wing flights regularly serve the Angolan cities of Soyo, Catumbela and Lubango. It is also responsible for the only direct charter passenger service and cargo transport between Luanda and Houston, which brings in 23.7 per cent of revenue. A Boeing 747-400 aircraft is used for this flight, known as the Houston Express. It is operated by Atlas Air on

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As regards plans to open up “The process of Angolanisation Angola’s offshore air service market to is under way and we expect to have competition, the president was bullish. a significant reduction in expatriate “Our market positioning today is labour in 2017, of the order of 35-40 per to treat our activity as if it were within cent, and in 2022 to have no [external] an environment of competition, and dependency at all.” it isn’t SonAir who has to open up. It’s Expatriates account for 123 of up to the market itself to offer such the current 997-strong highly-skilled opportunities, and whoever has claws, workforce, which includes 240 pilots and to grab them. That’s why we seek the 157 engineers. highest standards of operation, the The company is also keen to certify best leading-edge technology, the best its operations and processes to the systems, the best staff and the best highest international standard. infrastructure, so that whoever enters “We are in the process of this market will find all these barriers ISO 9001:2008 certification. We already and think twice about whether it’s have an Air Operator Certificate [AOC] worthwhile or not.” and we’re on the way to achieving SonAir is also increasing the Approved Maintenance Organization proportion of Angolans it employs. [AMO] certification.” The subsidiary undergoes client audits once or twice a year, and is approved by all major oil companies. It also meets “The focus was and continues Angola’s National Institute of Civil Aviation (INAVIC) norms and regulations to be the same; that is, and has been certified since 2010 according to International Civil Aviation to serve the oil industry” Organization (ICAO) standards. Andrade listed SonAir’s investment – João Alves Andrade, plans: “Apart from the normal process SonAir board president of acquiring aircraft according to the

Part of SonAir’s 33-strong helicopter fleet Brazuk Ltd

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market, we are committed to investing Maria Gervásio – elite pilot ruled out for Maria, the eldest child. in the following projects: creation of Worldwide there are just 450 female Gervásio flies a maximum of 80 the Maintenance Repair Organisation captains, and SonAir’s Maria Gervásio is hours and a minimum of 40 hours a (MRO); a helicopter passenger terminal; a proud member of this elite group. month. These are usually oil industry helibase operations at Soyo, at Benguela Gervásio is only Angola’s second and government flights. In the past she [in the short term] and at Namibe woman captain (Comandante), following has been temporarily posted to provincial [long term]. In terms of expanding in the footsteps of Alexandra Lima, who airports for tasks such as ferrying refugees. business, we have the prospect of was Africa’s first and is now a senior She has also flown outside Angola to internationalising our operations, pilot at TAAG. South Africa, Namibia, Zambia and the making our vision a reality.” A passion for life in the air was Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). SonAir clients include Total, BP, Eni, evident in the sparkle of her eyes: “Flying is a profession which is much Esso, Sonangol P&P, Chevron, Cobalt, “Nothing is perfect except flying,” admired and feared in women’s circles, ALNG, Statoil, Repsol, ConocoPhillips, she says. She became a pilot in 2001. and as far as men are concerned there Petrobras and Maersk, as well as She reached her current top fixed- is still some visible machismo. It wasn’t subcontractors such as Halliburton, wing piloting position in 2003 and has easy to conquer my own space and the Schlumberger, GE and Transocean. accumulated a massive 5,600 hours of respect my profession demands. Being flying time. a woman in an environment dominated SonAir’s women pilots – Her first sight of plane controls by men means one is always viewed making dreams possible close up was at the age of 15 when, on with a certain lack of confidence and There are 130,000 airline pilots a flight to Brazil from Luanda, she was sometimes underestimated, but this is worldwide, and of these only 4,000 are allowed into the cockpit. “I thought it good because it acts as an incentive to women, according to the International was fantastic. I loved all the lights and prove that, being a woman, I can also be Society of Women Airline Pilots. A major signals. I thought it was a fantasy to be a competent,” she explained. carrier such as British Airways has 3,500 pilot, but I became one when I was 26.” Married to a history teacher and pilots with just 200 females. Family background helped in her the mother of two children (she flew This minority representation is choice of profession. Her mother was a until her fourth month of pregnancy), especially the case on the African strong-willed woman who did military Gervásio said SonAir is a great company continent, but SonAir can boast two service in the masculine world of the to work for. The fact that Angola’s women pilots, one a plane captain and army, so an option for life in another provincial airports do not have landing the other flying helicopter services. male-dominated profession could not be lights means that she always flies in the daytime and goes home to her family at the end of each day. SonAir pilot Maria Gervásio Gervásio has largely managed to reconcile her professional and domestic lives, but there are many personal sacrifices that she must make for the profession, she pointed out. “For example, a pilot needs to rest well before a flight, so sometimes you can’t attend church or birthday parties and people don’t understand why, and you don’t see family and friends as much as you’d like to. “We need to rest and look after ourselves, a bit like a footballer before a match,” she said, smiling.

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‘Be the main air operator supporting national industry and regional expansion, all while performing these duties with safety, quality and competitiveness’ – SonAir’s vision

Looking to the future, Maria Gervásio helicopter. “Flying is spectacular and has safety precaution in the highly risk-averse would like to continue flying until she been much better than I had expected. oil business. has to retire (at 65), but she would also I get a sense of joy just being on the This 27-year-old Luandan with not mind teaching what she knows. airport apron when I get a whiff of 300 hours’ flying experience originally “Teaching is to learn and it’s a pleasure aviation fuel. Once in the machine, dreamed of becoming a cardiologist or to explain,” she said. you’re in a completely different world,” paediatric doctor when she was younger, she explained. following the path of her father, who was Neusa Oliveira – on cloud nine Oliveira flies around five days a week a specialist nurse treating tuberculosis Neusa Oliveira exudes love and youthful to the offshore rigs, where she transfers and leprosy, but her aversion to blood enthusiasm for her flying profession personnel between platforms and to and ruled that out, she said, laughing. One as she scampers around her gleaming from airports. Oil rig flights in Angola of her previous jobs was as a diplomatic and spotlessly clean S76 C++ (Sikorsky) are limited to daylight hours as an extra assistant, where she first came in contact

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with helicopters during some work with the police force, and that’s where she became interested in aviation. A sister working in air traffic control helped make the world of aviation accessible to her and prompted her into thinking about a career in the industry. Her attempt to work as an airline attendant on a Boeing 777-300 ER for TAAG was literally cut short because she wasn’t tall enough to help

passengers who couldn’t reach the Welcome aboard Brazuk Ltd baggage locker. This wasn’t a good enough reason to make her give up wanting to be part of the flying world. She applied to train with SonAir, Over the past 10 years, which accepted her on an 18-month course in Portugal to be a helicopter SonAir has registered more pilot. What she had previously thought of as ‘an impossible dream’ than 320,000 flying hours became a reality. Oliveira said her flying career has and transported more than caused no conflict with her social life. “I’m not one for partying so there’s 1.5 million passengers, no problem.” Asked if they have any fear of with no accidents flying, both Oliveira and Gervásio let out a great guffaw in unison and a long negative: “Nooooo”. “No, it’s exciting,” said Oliveira. “If you’re afraid, you can’t fly,” added Gervásio. “We’re trained for every eventuality,” she said confidently. “Oil companies have very high standards of safety, and we undergo many additional safety courses on their behalf,” Oliveira explained. At the end of my conversation with these two pilots, I came away a more confident flyer. Their air of professionalism, competence and trustworthiness made me feel my safety as a passenger was in good, steady hands.

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20 SONANGOL UNIVERSO Malocha SERVING ANGOLA

The Sonils Oil Service Centre is a cornerstone of Angola’s most important economic sector. Universo looks at the company’s success and how it faces today’s challenges

Panoramic view of the Port of Luanda

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estled in the heart of Luanda’s docklands, Sonangol Integrated Logistic Services (Sonils) Nspeedily supplies Angola’s oil industry with the goods, services and all the complex equipment it requires. The company’s mission is to support the oil sector by all means possible while offering high-quality international standards of service. The importance of the Sonils Oil Service Centre (OSC) derives from the fact that oil accounts for around 95 per cent of Angola’s exports and some 45 per cent of GDP. Almost all Angola’s oil and gas is drilled offshore and most of its equipment is imported by sea before being prepared onshore prior to installation. The idea of OSCs is to concentrate logistics and services while streamlining international access to oil production areas. Sonils is a joint venture between Sonangol and oilfield logistics company Intels. The latter also operates oil support bases on the West African coast in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Ivory Coast where it offers integrated logistics, facilities and services. Whereas most imported goods arrive by ship, are processed by customs and are then released through the landward dock gates to clients within the country, almost all Sonils’ activities are sea-related. So, oil industry equipment arrives by ship, and Sonils prepares and processes it near the dockside and then ships it out again. The optimal location for an OSC is within a port’s REDUCED HANDLING: precincts, allowing customs clearance, often a cause for long hold-ups to take place and reduce any other delays HOW SONILS WORKS from multiple handling and storage outside the docks. Traditional oil industry support operations are Sonils industrial hub usually managed through a private supply base. Initially planned as a logistics base, Sonils has developed Here, the cargo must pass through a port and undergo customs inspection and clearance. Then it into a much more ambitious project. It is now also is transferred to the private base from where it can an industrial hub in its own right and has almost all be despatched to the rig. This process involves at of Angola’s major oil companies and many offshore least four stages of handling before the equipment subcontractors and their workshops on-site. Annual arrives at its final destination. turnover is $400 million. If Sonils manages the support operation within Since 1995, Sonils has invested $800 million in Luanda’s prot precinct, then it can receive cargo expanding its site, which is now mostly on reclaimed directly at the base and, while awaiting customs land dredged up from Luanda Bay. clearance, inspect and store it. After the authorities The base is a condominium where clients can release it , Sonils can supply it directly to the final destination. This operation involves only two stages of manage and operate their business, while Sonils handling before reaching the rig. provides its own independent infrastructure – water, Kostadin Luchansky

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Total area 3 2 million square metres Quayside total length 3 2,000 metres SONILS BASE New quay extension: 447 metres The base, which was created in 1995, is located near Total office space of Sonils 3 11,881 square metres Quay apron 3 30 metresmajor wide sea, land and air infrastructure. It is adjacent TotTotalal ar coveredea: 2 million warehouse/workshop square metres 3 58,331 Electsquarerica metresl power: Two powerBulking stations points with 3 a Everyto 48 the metres biggest commercial port in Angola, the Port total of 8.25 MW of Luanda. The Sonils base is also close to the only Roads 3 21 kilometres New quay extension 3 447 metres Total office space of Sonils: international airport in Angola, located in Luanda, 11,881Design square load 3metres Four tonnes per square metre Water storage: 4.7 millionElectrical litres power 3 Twowhich power facilitates stations crew-changing with a total operations of 8.25 MW and en- Crew terminal 3 Seating for 524 people Water storage 3 4.7 millionables direct litres air freight.Water depth 3 12.5 metres Total covered warehouse/workshop: Water depth: 12.5 metres The base is undergoing a quayside expansion, 58,331 square metres which started in 2013 and is expected to be com- pleted in 2015. The developmentSONANGOL will represent UNIVERSO an 23 Roads: 21 kilometres The Sonangol Integrated Logistic Services (Sonils) increase of 22.35 percent over the existing quay- base is the largest and most advanced oil services side. The extension will provide much-needed relief Design load: Four tonnes per square metre centre in Angola. Sonils is the only deepwater fa- for quayside accessibility and assist in the reduction cility of its kind in the country. of bottlenecks and inefficiencies, a major concern Crew terminal: Seating for 524 people All the major exploration and production com- for companies operating in Angola. panies, vessel suppliers, drilling contractors and oil- The entry of new companies at the base would Quayside total length: 2,000 metres field services providers in Angola operate from exacerbate congestion. Furthermore, heavy traffic Sonils, comprising around 70 companies such as oil- at the main entry and exit road of the Sonils base Quay apron: 30 metres wide field services firm Schlumberger, super-major BP remains a cause for concern for its clients. When and the national oil company Sonangol’s explo- their employees and cargoes are delayed for exten- Bulking points: Every 48 metres ration and production arm, Sonangol P&P. sive periods, it leads to operational slowdowns.

THE OIL & GAS YEAR | ANGOLA 2014 The Who’s Who of the Global Energy Industry SUBSIDIARY Courtesy of Soares da Costa New Sonils access road AKER SOLUTIONS

One tenant at Sonils is Aker Solutions. “Sonils’ base location, and proximity to all third-party services installed within it, enables us to deliver additional services to the end customer without the need to transport equipment outside the base. This is beneficial for operational efficiency,” Norway’s Aker Solutions told Universo. “The quayside is available for operations giving easy offshore access, mobile cranes and trucks are available for transporting materials, and the company is assured infrastructure maintenance, security, electrical power and water round the clock.” Aker won a $2.6 billion contract from Total in 2014 for further work in Angola. It has workshops within Sonils from where it supports installations, customer asset management, rental tools and ‘life of field’ support among other company businesses. The firm is currently working for Total and Sonangol P&P on projects in Block 17 and Block 4/5 and has around 130 employees, of which approximately 80 per cent are Angolan. Aker’s Sonils facility was inaugurated in January 2005.

energy, communications and diesel students – as well as Stavanger (Norway) Personnel attention supply facilities – as well as making and Morgan City (Louisiana, USA) in the Sonils is located relatively close to other technical services, personnel and Gulf of Mexico. Luanda’s international airport which equipment available for port operations Some 10,000 people work on a helps ease platform crew and onshore and engineering work. 24/7 basis at the Sonils site beside personnel changing operations. The Oil service centres are a rational the Port of Luanda, which is the proximity permits urgently needed response to supporting the oil industry largest area of economic activity in equipment to arrive by air freight. as they concentrate and provide the city’s downtown. Viewed from The centre can provide restaurant synergies in service provision. There the surrounding hillside, the docks, services for up to 4,000 people a day, are OSCs all over the world carrying warehouses and stacked containers are including personnel in transit to and out substantial oil operations. These a hive of activity which generates huge from oil rigs and the crews manning the facilities include Aberdeen (Scotland) – amounts of heavy road traffic congestion large number of offshore supply vessels a favoured destination for Angolan oil in the surrounding area. that are anchored in Luanda’s bay.

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New Sonils access road

Economic benefits Sonils provides many benefits for the Angolan economy. These include the creation of well-paid jobs for Angolans and the transfer of advanced technologies. Greater investment in the oil industry is also encouraged by making it easier for Sonils Director Hélder Sousa business to operate in the country. Sonils’ Courtesy of Sonils provision of its own infrastructure has eased pressure on other parts of Luanda’s Company costs tend to be 25–30 per container trucks serving the port, heads in overburdened public utilities. cent higher when operating outside OSCs. and out onto the dusty portside road. Sousa has been at the helm for the Advantages of being on-site Hélder Sousa: complex past four years, having previously been By concentrating all oil sector management the assistant director for 10 years and companies within Sonils OSC they gain Hélder Sousa is the fast-talking, finance director for three and a half years. enhanced and faster services; reduced youthful-looking 53-year-old who His extensive career record as a senior communication problems between oversees and directs Sonils. His long official is relatively rare in Angola as there operator, contractor and client; fewer association with and experience at the is often a shortage of trained personnel material handling risks; and improved OSC dates back to 1997. with long, hands-on management management of tools and equipment. Born in Maianga, Luanda, Sousa is a experience before progressing to the top Sonil’s economy of scale also means graduate in both economics and public job in the same enterprise. cost-effective, efficient services and administration with a postgraduate degree Before starting work at Sonils, operations and increased security for all in continuous production. His office is Sousa spent two years at Pointe-Noire on-site companies. These lie within a on-site and at the heart of the action. It (Republic of Congo), where he had plenty fenced and secured area patrolled by its faces the heavily-secured main entrance of time to study its operations as an oil own and state-employed security staff. where a constant stream of traffic, mostly logistics centre.

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Illustrious visitor: Senator and Secretary of State John Kerry at Sonils in 2014

“I was determined to make Sonils as good as Pointe-Noire, Sousa said the plant, will have paid for itself within five years. if not better. It could be expensive but we will do it, I thought, Staff numbers have to match expanding services, and working 24 hours a day, seven days a week with no stoppages,” their training is also a continuous process. The OSC directly he said. employed 1,509 people in 2014, of which just 1.86 per cent were The director sees his task as a continuous process of expatriates. Four years ago the workforce stood at just 800. investment in the development of quality services at the centre Oil companies and their associated subcontractors employ to accompany Angola’s expanding oilfields. Increased oil well over 8,000 personnel at the Sonils complex. output has led to the arrival of many more oil companies and their subcontractors. Traffic management “Sonils is committed to providing solutions for its oil Around 95 per cent of Sonils traffic is by sea. Long-distance company clients,” he emphasised. “There’s been fast growth in ships dock and unload their large cargoes, while supply oil production, and services have to respond. There’s a need for vessels constantly load and ferry smaller consignments out to more energy and water, so we need periodic growth to add to oil rigs. service capacity.” To reduce demurrage costs and speed up operations, there As an example of its quality and enhanced service are two quay superintendents who simultaneously marshal provision, Sonils has spent over $12 million on building a the order and flow of vessels to and from the docks. Their desalination plant with the option of doubling capacity if responsibility is to ensure that delays are avoided and that needed. Not forgetting his former role as finance director, work at the quays is always swift and highly productive.

Port of Luanda entrance and catamaran terminal

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Easing access Luanda’s port area and Sonils have long suffered from a huge traffic bottleneck in the surrounding area, as 80 per cent of Angola’s imports pass through there. Given that almost all Sonils traffic is by sea, it would seem that land access should not be a huge issue, but it is. This is because it affects personnel rather than the flow of goods. Hélder Sousa says finding and retaining talented and trained staff has been a problem, as they have sometimes left after becoming demoralised by the long waits in traffic to and from work. Kostadin Luchansky To ease staff access, the hub has has taken advantage of two new services by sea: a regular public catamaran operates between Luanda’s southern

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residential area near Talatona and the port, and a small launch ferries workers across Luanda Bay from the Nautical Club. The port authority has also allowed Fugro’s modern testing facility company personnel to travel by minibus across its operational area on their way to work and thus avoid use of the congested port road. The good news for Sonils and the Port of Luanda is that the historic bottleneck is set to ease this year. The new port road north past Sonils is to be rebuilt using concrete to withstand the New access roads and development plans near Sonils damaging wear from heavy trucks by the end of 2015. There are also completely new roads up the steep escarpment overlooking the Sonils’ economy of scale offers complex. These were largely complete in March 2015 and will greatly facilitate cost-effective, efficient services and staff journeys to work. operations and increased security Sonils has also been active in cultivating good relations with the for all on-site companies neighbouring community at Boavista. Here the company has helped clear drains and clean up the area by could be up to 12 hours from the Sonils busiest and most efficient port. collecting waste. It also supports local base at Luanda. Last year Luanda won the ‘Crans health centres, schools and churches. Montana’ prize for ‘Best regional Port of Luanda container terminal.’ The port handled Sonils’ future Until recently inefficiency at the Port 913,000 containers in 2013, a staggering The company’s boss believes the recent of Luanda presented a serious obstacle 221,000 more than in 2012 and over six drastic fall in oil prices may cause delays to trade, but the port is making great times the 150,000 it moved in 2007. in expanding Sonils’ quay development progress in this regard which is also A rail-connected dry port outside as it may reduce demand for port space. helping Sonils operate better. Goods Luanda at Viana is also alleviating some Looking further ahead, a completely through Angola’s largest port are now pressure on road traffic and storage new OSC may have to be built further flowing faster than ever, thanks to space. Cargo trains carrying a total of south to better serve new offshore massive investment in equipment and 4,322 containers in 185 trips obviated drilling blocks. According to Sousa, training over the past five years. In 2014 over 4,000 road movements last year. studies will be undertaken to see if it is Luanda handled 12 million tonnes of Despite its gains in efficiency, owing worthwhile, both Sumbe (Kwanza Sul cargo, double the amount shipped in 2007. to its constricted site, the Port of Luanda province) and Lobito (Benguela province) Port congestion is now easing with is reaching saturation point. The solution have been mentioned as possible sites. vessel turnaround times averaging three planned is a completely new port at Ideally an OSC should be within days as opposed to 16 days in 2008. That Barra do Dande, 50km north of Luanda. four hours’ sailing time from the rigs, compares favourably with 2.5 days at This would also relieve congestion at sea whereas new rigs in southern Angola Durban (South Africa), the continent’s and around Sonils.

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FUGRO: QUALITY JOBS

Fugro’s modern testing facility Another Sonils’ tenant is Fugro, the world’s largest integrator of geotechnical, survey and subsea services. With a base on the complex since 2002, Fugro provides personnel, equipment, expertise and technology to support the oil industry as well as the technical data and information required to design, build and maintain large structures and infrastructure in Angola. “Fugro’s new geotechnical laboratory in Sonils OSC is one of the most modern testing facilities, equipped to perform all standard testing. Capabilities range from geotechnical classification tests to state-of-the-art effective stress, consolidation and shear strength testing. A CPT [Cone Penetration Test] truck will shortly complement Fugro’s onshore geotechnical services in Angola. The laboratory and CPT testing form a solid base to further develop our geotechnical services in Angola,” said Ms Christina Brokahne, Managing Director of Fugro Angola. “Our survey workshop is set up to support all offshore construction projects, positioning and rig move services as well as geophysical survey services. It is supported by our data processing and reporting team at the Sonils base,” she added. The company also has extensive training facilities for more than 50 Angolan surveyors and survey engineers at Sonils. Around 85% of the staff (122) is Angolan and there are also 15 expatriate staff on rotation. Fugro is a good example of the quality training and jobs Sonils provides. Fugro Angola

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EXXONMOBIL IN ANGOLA: HAPPY

30 SONANGOL UNIVERSO ExxonMobil, the world’s largest publicly-traded energy firm, has run one of the most successful oil outfits in Africa for 21 years. Universo joins in the celebrations

ver the past two decades, ExxonMobil has gained a reputation in Angola as an efficient, highly-profitable Ooil company with an outstanding safety record. Together with its drilling partners, the company has made 45 discoveries with potential total reserves of a massive 10 billion barrels. It currently has interests in three Angolan deepwater blocks: Block 15, Block 17 and Block 32. Now, the global giant is about to receive further plaudits when a $2.4 billion investment in the Block 15 Kizomba Satellites Phase 2 (KSP2) project starts producing oil in 2015.

Block 15 In 1994 ExxonMobil was awarded the right to operate one of its most prolific concessions, Block 15, where, four years later, it made its first discovery. The multinational then set up a dedicated subsidiary, Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Ltd, to oversee operations. This company holds a 40 per cent stake in the block on behalf of Sonangol, the concessionaire. BP has 26.67 per cent, Eni 20 per cent and Statoil 13.33 per cent. Block 15 has reserves estimated at 5 billion barrels and covers an area of 4,144 sq km in the Atlantic some 145km off Angola’s northern shore at Soyo. The block has proved to be one of the country’s most highly productive areas and averaged 325,000 barrels per day of oil in 2014 (1.8 billion barrels of cumulative production since first oil in 2003). The previous year it was the second-highest-producing block in Angola with an average of 370,000 bpd. The block’s first oil production was in 2003 from the Xikomba project, followed by further development projects at Kizomba A (2004), Kizomba B (2005), Marimba North (2007), Kizomba C-Mondo and Kizomba C-Saxi Batuque (2008), then Kizomba Satellites Phase 1 (KSP1) in 2012. (These projects, incidentally, are named after indigenous musical instruments

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or music genres. The names will also be largely familiar to people from Brazil). Each project has at its heart one or more floating production, storage and offloading vessels (FPSOs). An FPSO is usually a converted oil tanker, with a configuration that resembles the body of an octopus. The FPSO is anchored in position and has huge straggling ‘legs’ made of flexible lines, consisting of control systems and fluid pipes connected to wellheads on the seabed. The pipelines pump oil and gas to processing units on the FPSOs, which then transfer oil to tankers. Some of Block 15’s output from Kizomba A and Kizomba B has been supplying associated gas to the Angola LNG plant at Soyo since 2013. Block 15 consists of three main projects with four FPSOs at the centre of things: one each for Kizomba A and Kizomba B and two in Kizomba C. FPSO Mondo: part of the Kizomba C project FPSO Kizomba A cost $3.2 billion and has production capacity of 250,000 bpd with 2.2 million barrel storage capacity. mid-2012, and its peak design capacity is fabrication and assembly of topside units FPSO Kizomba B is its twin with the same 100,000 bpd. as well as submarine equipment. capabilities, but slightly less expensive at The upcoming highlight of 2015 ExxonMobil has been keen to deal $3 billion, benefiting from not having to will be when KSP2 produces its first oil with and buy from local businesses and duplicate development outlay. by the end of the year. KSP2 is a $2.4 suppliers. In the period 2010–13, it spent The Kizomba C project is tapped billion investment which will boost oil $454 million on products and services by FPSO Mondo and FPSO Saxi Batuque. production by approximately 80,000 bpd from Angolan companies. The Mondo unit is smaller than its when it comes on stream. It is tapping The company has undertaken around predecessors, with design production into reserves estimated at 190 million half of the firm’s topside engineering capacity of 10,000 bpd and storage for barrels from development areas in Block and 30 per cent of its installation work in 1.6 million barrels. The latter, on the 15 (Kakocha, Bavuca and Mondo Sul). the country with nearly all underwater other hand, is larger with a massive ExxonMobil is developing the Kakocha components made or assembled on 2.1 million barrel storage capacity and and Bavuca fields via links to the FPSO Angolan soil. 105,000 bpd production output. Kizomba B and the Mondo Sul field via Development of KSP2 is based on FPSO Mondo. the experience acquired from KSP1 and Kizomba Satellites benefits from the continuous use of staff These satellites are add-on oilfield Local content and equipment at several Angolan yards. development connected to the core Construction of Kizomba Satellites Kizomba projects. The first phase of has involved increased local content. ‘Design one, build multiple’ KSP1 began commercial production in Angolan shipyards are providing According to ExxonMobil, the Block 15

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ANGOLA TIMELINE

2015 Start production of KSP2 Courtesy ExxonMobil

2014 Block 15 celebrates 20 years of operations

Start supply of associated gas to Angola LNG 2013 from Block 15 gas gathering system. Total investment since 2003: $43 billion

2012 KSP1 starts production

One billion barrels of production, 2009 750 staff, of which 500 are Angolan

Block 15 partners announce first oil 2008 from Mondo field in Kizomba C and start-up of Saxi Batuque

2005 First oil Kizomba B project

2004 First oil Kizomba A project

2003 First oil Xicomba project

2003 Kizomba B project begins

2001 Kizomba A development project starts

Discoveries at Xikomba, Chocalho (1999); 1999- Mondo, Saxi Batuque and Mbulumbumba 2001 (2000); Mavacola 1 and Vicango (2001)

Block 15 discoveries: Kissanje 1, 1998 Marimba 1, Hungo 1 and Dikanza 1

First production-sharing agreement 1994 Block 15. Only 10 Angolan staff employed

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development has been a resounding Angola totalled around 700 and had 81 The 4,000 sq km block has reserves endorsement of its FPSO strategy per cent national representation. Back estimated at 4 billion barrels, and its first of ‘Design one, build multiple’. The in 1994, the company employed just 10 discovery dates back to 1996. It is located Kizomba ventures, the company noted, Angolan workers. slightly nearer to the coast than Block 15, are “benchmark projects that set world- In 2015, 75 Angolan nationals around 140km from Luanda. record cycle times with the lowest hold leading positions at Esso Angola, unit-development costs for projects of including 16 offshore supervisors and 13 Block 32 this size and complexity.” in directorial roles. Its main office is in ExxonMobil also has a 15 per cent For its work in developing Kizomba, Luanda, but there are other units in Soyo interest in deepwater Block 32, which the oil major won an Offshore Technology and Lobito as well as offshore locations. has an estimated 1 billion barrels of oil in Conference (OTC) special citation in 2011 an area of over 5,000 sq km. The oil lies for its “industry-leading approach to Block 17 between 1,500 and 2,500 metres. Angola deepwater project development”. This is operated by Total, which has a Block 32 is operated by Total (30 The use of many of the same 40 per cent stake and is partnered with per cent) and the other partners are suppliers, service providers and workers, Statoil holding 23.33 per cent and BP 16.67 Sonangol P&P (30 per cent), SSI (20 per including Angolans, to build and install per cent. Although ExxonMobil’s Esso cent) and Galp (5 per cent). The block’s both facilities enhanced safety, quality, Exploration Angola (Block 17) Ltd only has first oil discovery was recorded in 2003. efficiency and reliability as well as helped a 20 per cent share, the block is hugely The largest development, the Kaombo reduce costs. important due to its high productivity. project, in which Total is investing $16 It accounts for over a third of Angola’s billion, is scheduled to start production Angolan workforce and operations output with 590,000 bpd, making it one of in 2017. It will have two FPSOs, each At the end of 2013, ExxonMobil’s staff in Africa’s most lucrative concessions. producing up to 115,000 bpd.

ExxonMobil has Courtesy ExxonMobil 75 Angolans in leading positions, including 16 offshore supervisors and 13 in director positions

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TXIPITA SAMBO, OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR

and the integrity of the installation and environment. I’m also responsible for authorising all the jobs done on my installation so as to consistently support the equipment maintenance programme and guarantee oil production stability. At the same time, I manage my section operators so as to empower them to become even better professionals imbued with a spirit of work safety and teamwork in the constant monitoring of equipment and operations in general.” Esso has a reputation for employing a high number of Angolans in positions of responsibility, and Sambo concurs with that view. “All this begins with the company’s own strategic vision in maintaining the sustainability of its business in a solid and consistent way.” Sambo explained that Esso has a clear policy of promoting people on merit, and this all begins with a rigorous selection process for trainees and its philosophy of bringing workers of several nationalities together and placing the more experienced alongside the less seasoned. “This ensures that the work ethic and knowledge transfer is done consistently,” he explained. Sambo also pointed out that there is also constant training within and outside the company

Courtesy ExxonMobil to guarantee the sustainability of its Angolanisation policy. Sambo said that there are a large number of Angolans Txipita Sambo has been working as an operations supervisor at sea, contrary to popular belief. His choice to do so was on FPSO Kizomba B since 2012. He started his career at influenced by being on the INP programme. He recognised that Esso in 2002, studying at the National Oil Institute (INP) at this can be challenging for both him and his family. “They are Sumbe, Kwanza Sul. He then continued his studies in Nova very understanding of my work and support my idea and desire Scotia, Canada, and combined this with on-the-job training to work at sea, but it’s natural for any wife, children and parents placements at the Goldboro LNG Plant (2003) and Hibernia Oil to prefer to have family members close to them,” he said. & Gas Platform (2004-05). Sambo then returned to Angola to On the FPSO, it isn’t all work. “It seems strange to speak work on FPSO Kizomba A (2005-12). of leisure in a place where one’s main attention is to manage “What I most like about my work is the responsible and risk and the business itself, which needs extreme vigilance, serious way that we take into consideration all aspects related but there are opportunities for leisure such as a cinema, gym, to work safety and the management of operational risks. The television, communication via telephone, Wi-Fi internet, a technology that now exists in terms of exploration, production variety of games and so on. I take advantage of some of them and oil processing is fascinating,” he said. to pass the time.” “My work routine is vast; it begins with the first safety Sambo is well satisfied with his choice of company. meeting in the early hours of the morning and is followed by “The best thing about working for Esso is the stability of several other meetings during the day. My first responsibility employment, and the opportunity there to grow professionally is to manage everyday operational risks to assure the safety and personally.”

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ISPTEC igher Polytechnic Institute for Technology and Science THE EDUCATION H(ISPTEC) is a Sonangol-driven private–public partnership which aims to help supply the country’s oil sector with ANGOLA NEEDS professionals and technical specialists. The polytechnic has a swish, brightly- coloured new campus in the heart of Sonangol’s growing need for trained Luanda’s modern southern suburb of Talatona. Its mission statement technical specialists is behind its reads: “To train qualified professionals strong support for ISPTEC. Universo dedicated to the sustainable development of Angola by the generation charts the polytechnic’s rapid rise and dissemination of knowledge.” The project began life in February 2005 with a view to building what was then known as the University of Technology and Science (UTEC). This was

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ISPTEC students: tomorrow’s oil professionals

a Sonangol initiative to create a high- quality university with the academic, teaching and administrative processes to match. In March 2008, a special-purpose company, PDA (People, Development and Associates), was set up to promote ISPTEC with the responsibility to ensure the full development of the institute and its financing. The next major landmark was on Lesson one and Industrial Production Engineering August 5, 2011, when it was officially The embryonic complex was ready in and two courses in Applied Social created as a legal entity. To establish 2012 and consisted of an administration Sciences (Economics and Management). a university, Angolan law requires the block, classrooms, laboratories and a Teaching takes place in shifts in the educational body to teach four areas of sports facility. morning, afternoon and evening. In knowledge, but ISPTEC was permitted Academic activities began in earnest the first academic year, the institute to be a university teaching just two in March 2012 with the offering of six had five laboratories, which it used disciplines thanks to a special Executive courses in Engineering Mechanical, to teach Chemistry and Experimental Decree from Angola’s Ministerial Council. Civil, Electrical, Computer, Chemical Physics. It has subsequently built 29

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more laboratories for research and there three years (148) and those just teaching, R&D and extension courses, development (R&D) and specialist completing their first (946) shows ISPTEC has established a large number extension courses for the community. dramatically how rapidly ISPTEC of partnerships with recognised Angolan Since 2012, ISPTEC has also offered is expanding. There were 1,586 in and international institutions. courses in Environmental Engineering 2014, but if the intake is replicated In-house staff have visited higher and Accountancy. in subsequent years, then that figure education institutions and scientific could almost triple by 2016. The total research centres in Angola, Brazil, South Places filling up capacity has been provisionally set at Africa, Spain and Portugal with a view to Since the university’s first full academic 6,000 places. evaluating and establishing partnership year in 2012, student enrolment has and co-operation agreements. been growing steadily. The contrast Fostering co-operation So far the organisation has signed in numbers between the first batch of In order to strengthen and help academic protocols with several undergraduates who have now been consolidate its basic activities of distinguished international partners such as:

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGIES Portugal: 3 University of Aveiro NUMBER OF STUDENTS 3 University of Porto COURSE 1ST YEAR 2ND YEAR 3RD YEAR 3 University of Coimbra Civil Engineering 78 21 6 3 University of Minho 3 Higher Technical Institute at the Electrical Engineering 85 30 10 Lisbon Technical University Computer Engineering 160 34 10

Mechanical Engineering 85 27 12 Brazil: 3 Federal University of Rio Grande Chemical Engineering 105 68 26 do Norte Production & Industrial Engineering 169 75 24 3 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 682 255 88 3 University of São Carlos 3 Pontifical Catholic University of Rio TOTAL 1,025 Grande do Sul

Spain: 3 Higher Council of Scientific Research DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES Co-operation agreements are largely NUMBER OF STUDENTS weighted towards higher education COURSE 1ST YEAR 2ND YEAR 3RD YEAR bodies with a distinct vocation for Economics 115 114 31 applied science and engineering. The Management 149 123 29 polytechnic’s corporate partners are intimately involved with the oil sector. 264 237 60 These include Siemens, Honeywell, EFACEC, Total E&P Angola, ZTE TOTAL 561 Corporation and Luanda Refinery. GRAND TOTAL 1,586

Source: ISPTEC October 2014

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ISPTEC’s bright, modern campus

TEACHING STAFF PROFILE

Studying outside the country... COUNTRY OF ORIGIN GRADUATE MASTER’S DEGREE DOCTORATE TOTAL These wide-ranging academic and corporate Angola 56 24 8 88 partnerships will also help some high-flying Portugal 1 2 3 6 students to benefit from attending term-long courses abroad and also obtain work placements. Brazil 2 0 0 2 Student mobility, according to ISPTEC, creates Cuba 8 2 8 18 qualified professionals with more know-how and São Tomé & Príncipe 0 1 0 1 prepares them for the challenges of the Angolan labour market. Congo 1 0 0 1 Chile 0 1 0 1 ...and outside of the classroom United States 1 0 0 1 Apart from student exchanges, the institute is also very keen on on-the-job training. It 69 30 19 118 encourages undergraduates to visit companies where they can see the application of the theoretical concepts they have studied in class ANGOLANS and also to understand better the sectors in 74.5% which they will work in future. The practical application of lessons learnt is 25.5% a key part of the overall educational experience, FOREIGNERS

Source: ISPTEC October 2014

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and students can benefit from visits to ‘To train qualified places such as the Luanda Refinery and the professionals committed offices of Total E&P Angola. Students also to the sustainable have the opportunity of eight-week work placements to give them familiarity and development of Angola experience and to enhance their skills in by the generation their chosen profession after graduating. and dissemination of

Focus on research knowledge’ The ISPTEC syllabus has a major focus on – ISPTEC’s vision R&D, so the campus is equipped with a large number of professional laboratories for scientific investigation using cutting-edge technology. The idea is to inculcate a strong culture of scientific research right from the moment students attend their first lectures. The polytechnic believes this will give a significant technical boost to the process of teaching and apprenticeships and in the qualification of professionals. Dr. Baltazar Miguel, Director-general of ISPTEC The extensive laboratory facilities on campus also provide an excellent academic environment for both ISPTEC’s library contains over 5,000 volumes professionals and researchers.

Community links The organisation is also engaged in extracurricular programmes to support the economic, social and cultural development of Angola. The aim is to foster dynamic projects that involve students and the community. Six laboratories are available for the corporate and industrial sectors for conducting analyses and testing. Consultancy and advisory support services are also provided. The importance that ISPTEC attaches to its international dimension is reflected in the establishment of an on-campus Language Centre. This offers English and Portuguese courses to guarantee the proficiency of graduating students and boost the global relations of the institute.

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ISPTEC FACILITIES

Campus area: 3.5 hectares Buildings on campus: 16 Classroom blocks: 4 Classrooms: 58 Small auditoriums: 4 Large auditorium: 1 Library: 1 Gym and sports complex: 1 Cafeterias: 2

ISPTEC LABORATORIES

Basic scientific laboratories: 5 Professional laboratories: 29 in the following areas 3 Mechanical Technologies 3 Metrology and Machine tools 3 Energy and Fluid Mechanics 3 Materials 3 Mechanisms 3 Control 3 Civil Engineering 3 Chemistry 3 Electrical Engineering 3 Computer Science

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42 SONANGOL UNIVERSO Courtesy of Daniela Ribeiro CULTURE THE SCIENCE OF arm versus cold, love versus science, man versus machine, Wthe future versus the here and now. All that is what the southern and northern hemispheres represent to Daniela Ribeiro. In her art, she symbolises the ways in which the two worlds merge in the process of globalisation. ART Clouds of white dust and bumpy dirt roads in a derelict industrial area of Luanda form Universo’s introduction to the work of one of Angola’s most successful and remarkable artists. The The relationship between location of Ribeiro’s studio, one building science and art is a rich in an isolated row of warehouses close to the country’s main port, could hardly theme explored by Angolan be more suitable. It matches her grand, poignant, dramatic works of art as artist Daniela Ribeiro. She well as her strong, independent and invites Universo along on her charismatic personality. The warehouse belongs to Israeli stimulating aesthetic journey company AngoAlissar, and she is allowed to use it for free. “That’s their way of supporting me and other artists By Lula Ahrens within the framework of corporate responsibility,” she explained to Universo. Other companies, such as Fiat, also sponsor her work.

Lost in the clouds Every part of the 600-square-metre studio is crammed with the artist’s work. A proud gazelle statue stands to the left of the door; African designs with unusual

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steel-coloured decorations fill the walls ‘clouds’ above our heads, clouds formed and corners. Two large frames occupy by an accumulation of data on people some of the space in the middle. As the all over the world.” Continuing her train

Courtesy of Daniela Ribeiro observer bends down to look at them, of thought, she added, “Privacy is an dark blue skies with bright white clouds illusion nowadays. It doesn’t really exist. appear to stare back at you. There is There’s danger in that. I personally think something unusual about these aerial that the iCloud could turn into a system panoramas, something impossible to of mass control.” pinpoint for the untrained eye. The artworks involved consist of “My next exhibition will be called several layers of resin, which she stamped Clouds,” Ribeiro said. “I’ve had a difficult to create the illusion of three dimensions. year, mentally and physically. In this Climate represents an extra element globalised world, I was no longer of the exhibition. “I mean that in the managing to see where I belonged nor sense of environmental confusion,” she where I was going. I’ve been walking said. “As you can see in these works, as in the clouds. I had to reinvent myself. a result of pollution it is impossible to That’s what led to this exhibition.” pinpoint the location of the sun, even The Clouds project is an example of though it seems to shine through the scientific surrealism, a relatively new clouds from every angle.” movement in art based on artificial, or bionic, intelligence – as Ribeiro put Angolan heritage it, “the introduction of the machine Ribeiro was born to Portuguese parents into the human body.” The concept, in in Angola on August 15, 1972, and raised relation to art, is comparable to what in Luanda until the age of 12. It was an science fiction represents in the world of unforgettable childhood, she said. Due cinema or literature. to a lack of ‘everything and anything’, “Eventually, I decided to reflect she and her friends were forced to be on the iCloud phenomenon. It is creative and build their own toys, and in very abstract for us to think that all her case also sculptures, from the few information on our lives is stored in materials that were available.

Daniela Ribeiro in her old train carriage studio, Miramar, Luanda

“Our world is globalised. Angolans travel more, while the West increasingly appreciates African art”

– Daniela Ribeiro Brazuk Ltd

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She developed a fascination for the art she creates. “There is a schism Despite their stark differences, the raw materials thanks to her father, a between the man of the North and the two hemispheres mix and mingle. “Our mechanical engineer who became Angola’s man of the South, which will be reflected world is globalised. Angolans travel Deputy Minister of Heavy Industries. in the destination of Homo sapiens. The more, while the West increasingly West [that is, the Northern hemisphere] appreciates African art. It’s interesting to Global education will have the sapien robot. The South bring the Southern world to the North, Her Angolan childhood would prove to will not,” she claimed. and the other way round.” have as much influence on her career as The artist gave two examples to Ribeiro has observed a unification an artist as would her time later spent illustrate that idea. of the two, in which each maintains its in Europe. “Africa has a verbal culture, because dominant characteristics. “The man of Like many privileged Angolans of the past and the future are not important the South does use a mobile phone. But her generation, Ribeiro got the chance to Africans. What matters is the here and he uses it in a superficial way. He uses to study abroad. Having attended the now. The West, with its written culture, the technology, but that technology does French Lycée in Luanda, she went on to is the opposite. not form part of his own culture.” boarding school in Lyon, (France), where “People in the southern hemisphere The interaction between North and she lived until the age of 16 and became let themselves die acquainted with French philosophy. In peacefully, leaving their Electrifying: Fort of São Miguel 1993, she moved to Portugal to study kids behind. They accept Digital Design and Image Manipulation. death. Westerners do She then graduated in International everything to avoid death, Relations from Lisbon’s Lusíada even if it means living with University in 1998. a robot inside their body. After an internship at the Center “The South’s world of European Studies, she accepted is about humanity and administrative jobs at the Ministry warmth, while the North of Economics and the Cabinet of the is predominantly cold President of the Republic of Portugal. and oppressive.” It was not her world. In the meantime, Narrowing her focus to she slowly but surely embraced her Angola, she stated: “What own milieu, exhibiting her art at I feel is that Angola has various individual and joint exhibitions a more direct connection in Portugal. to love, while Europe inspires first and foremost North–South divide the scientific side of life.” In her work, Ribeiro focuses on the This prompts the contemporary human being in the South question as to where (Africa) and the North (Western Europe) Ribeiro belongs – that and the future of mankind, placing a is, which of the two heavy emphasis on Western artificial hemispheres her intelligence and bionics. She sometimes personality represents dismantles technological devices such as more strongly? “I belong computers or mobile phones to create her to both worlds,” she said. masterpieces, transforming them to create “The North and the South powerful, philosophical pieces of art. are represented equally Her manner of speech often echoes strongly in my personality.”

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South is not a one-way street, she added. course at the Lisbon Fine Arts Society. Accepting the challenge, she created a “The people of the South have an equally She dedicated herself to painting initially collection of 14 bionic eyes made out important message for the North, while she was in between jobs. “It was of electronic components from 2,000 namely that of peace.” an intuitive process based on trial and mobile phones. error. I locked myself up at home and She exhibited her gigantic, 2-by-2 Artistic fate went on and on until I got it right.” metre panels in the wing housing Ribeiro has been exhibiting her work Then she took sculpture classes, and the works of world-famous sculptor independently since 2002. Her first in 2006 specialised in resin and silicon Auguste Rodin. The panels were shown exhibition in Portugal in 2004, Fire Up, was moulds at the Pascal Rosier School in opposite his legendary sculpture a groundbreaking success. She sold all Paris, after which Master Rosier invited The Kiss. her works within two hours. Ribeiro had her to teach in Lisbon. At the end of 2010, she moved to introduced her art at the right time, in the London to establish ArtinPark London at right place. “African art is up and coming Bionic Eye Fiat Marylebone, the company’s flagship in the Western world,” she noted. One of the artist’s most successful premises, where she also exhibited her In Lisbon in 2005, she set up ArtinPark, exhibitions, Bionic Eye (2010), drew Bionic Eye collection for the second time. an art association that aims to support large audiences at the Portuguese In a subsequent 2012 exhibition, Sun, young artists at the start of their careers. Communications Foundation in Lisbon Moon and Earth, in the prestigious Alpha Her parents had always discouraged and at the Lisbon Casino. Gallery in Cork Street, Ribeiro depicted a her own dream of becoming a full-time A request by the foundation led to dreamlike vision of the world, inspired artist. Only after she turned 30 did this this exhibition. The foundation had by her childhood in Luanda and by become her true profession. asked Ribeiro to write an artistic essay images of the Earth as seen from NASA’s In 2000, she enrolled on a painting on the future of information technology. Hubble Space Telescope.

Daniela Ribeiro preparing for an exhibition Brazuk Ltd

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Angolan culture Ribeiro held her first solo show in Angola with the support of the Sindika Dokolo Foundation. The Uniqueness of Time premiered at the Escom building in Luanda in 2009. This collection, 22 works inspired by tribal masks from the Tchokwe culture, again represented modernity versus tradition, more specifically the traditional African man versus the future bionic man, with a special focus on southern Angola. She decorated her masks with recycled ‘jewellery’ made from mobile phone components, chips, keyboards, headsets and wires, thus showcasing her reflection on an overlap of civilisations between the traditional African man and the bionic man, “the union between modernity and tradition, the adaptation of Angolans to technological developments that are taking place worldwide”. The Uniqueness of Time was later displayed at the Hay Hill Gallery in London in 2011. Another event, Our Culture, took place at the Agostinho Neto Memorial in Luanda in 2014. The collection of pieces, her personal portrayal of Angola, reflected the idea that Angola has changed: not only due to the end of the war, but also through Angola’s Space art: Ribeiro mixes electronic components with acrylic process of self-determination and Brazuk Ltd confirmation of Angolan culture. She used African fabrics and Love and intelligence I describe the way I perceive and mobile phone parts to create Our Although Ribeiro’s art reflects a intuitively experience the past, the Culture. “African fabrics represent strong declaration on the state of present and the future.” Angolan tradition, while mobile humankind and where it is heading, it Although it is not her role to bring phone parts symbolise Angola’s lacks any form of social criticism. “My about change, she does know what we transition to modernity and its intention is not to change the world,” cannot do without. “No matter how we absorption of Western influences. she explained. “I feel human sadness evolve, I think there are two things we They represent a cultural and grief, but both are predetermined must preserve,” she said. “Those two breakthrough,” the artist explained. by biology. I am merely an observer. things are love and intelligence.”

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TARGET: TWO MILLION BARRELS Shutterstock

Sonangol E.P. is on course to meet its production oil output by a total of 33,000 bpd from benchmark of 2 million barrels per day of oil in Blocks 15 and 18. However, there was some good the first half of 2016 despite a dip in output and a production news in 2014: the new CLOV dramatic price downturn in 2014 system in Block 17 came on stream in June, with the Block 15/06 West Hub up and running in November 2014, his was the confident tone of 2.6 per cent less than the 1.715 million bringing output back to around the 1.8 board president Francisco de bpd recorded in 2013, and reached a million bpd mark. The LNG facility is also TLemos José Maria at the Luanda low point of just 1.474 million bpd in expected to return to full operation by press conference on February 25, marking March 2014. the end of 2015. 39 years since the company’s foundation. Sonangol’s administrator responsible Chief Financial Officer Fernandes However, Mr Lemos described 2014 for the area of hydrocarbons exploration Mateus told the press conference that as a “very difficult year” as technical and production, Paulino Jerónimo, Sonangol suffered from low output in faults early on led to a fall in oil and explained that the fall in production was the first half of 2014 when oil prices gas output, and this was compounded mainly due to corrosion and problems were high and achieved greater success by the almost halving of world oil in the Girassol fields. Another factor was in the second, only to find prices had prices by December. Angola’s oil the suspension of gas production at the plummeted, so the company was production averaged 1.672 million bpd, Angola LNG plant at Soyo, which reduced negatively affected in both periods. In

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addition, board president Lemos noted said, was “vital for preparing and training in contracting services from third parties that the oil price had peaked at $110.64 specialists, managers and company in order to develop the company’s per barrel in June 2014 but then dropped to leaders to meet the company challenges critical functions.” just $57.91 in December. for the coming years and decades”. Other target areas for investment, This is a consequence of the fact that In order to do this, Mr Lemos said, it according to the president, were the world oil supply has been expanding was essential to find and attract talent. key areas of exploration, production, rapidly thanks to the shale gas boom in With that in mind, the Grant Study refining, sales and distribution of crude North America, coupled with a general Programme would be making 5,000 oil, gas and oil products. weakening of demand. scholarship places available by 2020. ‘It Sonangol’s aim is to expand its had already awarded 1,324 of these, he operations and raise output to the The road to recovery noted, and invested $1.1 billion in this benchmark of 2 million bpd, then Sonangol board president Lemos told process in 2014. maintain that rate of production and add journalists that the strategy for turning “The equation is simple: recruit 4 per cent to it annually. around the difficult year just gone was to competent personnel, improve the level Other goals are to replace 100 per recover the company’s efficiency. This, of salaries and make substantial savings cent of oil reserves each year and he said, consisted of “improving the functioning of our processes and systems, reducing non-essential costs, KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS improving our spending, maintenance of our market share, attaining the permanent satisfaction of our clients 2013 2014 % CHANGE and in reaching our operational, Oil production, million bpd 1.715 1.672 - 2.6 commercial and financial targets”. Average barrel price, $ 107.79 96.72 - 10.3 Personnel power However, the president said the most Total sales, $ billion 41.250 36.476 - 15.9 important component of recovering Profits, $ billion 3.090 0.710 - 77.0 efficiency was continuous investment in Sonangol, and one priority for 2015 was Personnel 8,870 8,473 - 4.5 spending on human resources. This, he Source: Sonangol E.P.

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accumulate future reserves that will last Sonangol would push ahead with large refinery is also set to accelerate in 2015, at least 20 years. projects from 2017-20: Kaombo (Block with the foundations and access road Sonangol also plans to boost its 32), Camélia (Block 21), East Hub (Block already in place. quota of oil production in Angola to 26) and Orca (Block 20). Mr Lemos said the Barra do Dande one-fifth of the total in 2020 – the figure During 2015, it is to undertake Ocean Terminal with capacity of currently stands at 13 per cent. The pre-feasibility studies for natural gas 640,000 cubic metres of fuel and butane company also intends to maintain its development centred on Cabinda gas would be built in 2016 and new fuel lead position in the domestic market in in the Gulf of Congo Gas System parks completed at Soyo, Lubango supplying refined products with at least and the Kwanza Basin Gas System. and Namibe. a 65 per cent share. Feasibility studies for building the new Sonangol’s logistic operations would Quinfunquena Oil Terminal at Soyo also benefit from partnerships with Upstream investment should be completed this year too, the Angola’s train companies, who would Other tasks on the table include president added. jointly develop rail access to its oil completion of the tendering of 10 terminals and buy tank wagons. onshore blocks in the Congo and Kwanza Logistics The acquisition of four Suezmax basins, with a further 15 blocks in the Work in the pipeline involves the tanker ships this year, two of which ultra-deepwater Congo Basin and in the third logistic support base to support Sonangol had already ordered, would Namibe Basin. oil operations in Quicombo, Kwanza bolster the shipping pool. The firm also intends to develop Sul province, while at the same time Angola’s state oil company also wide-ranging seismic survey campaigns expanding the Kwanda base at Soyo in plans to build new offices around the including some across Angola’s interior. Zaire province. country in Cabinda, Soyo, Malange, In addition, Mr Lemos promised, Building progress on the Lobito Lobito, Huambo and Lubango.

Sonangol also plans to boost its quota of oil production in Angola to one-fifth of the total in 2020 – the figure currently stands at 13 per cent.

OIL SUPPLY AND DEMAND

2013 2014 % CHANGE

*World oil demand 90.2 91.2 +1.1

*World oil supply 90.1 92.1 +2.2

**Angola crude exports 285.681 252.926 - 11.5

Source: Sonangol E.P. *million bpd **million barrels in 2014

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ANGOLA’S LARGEST CLIENTS All image Malocha

■ China ...... 47% ■ India...... 13% ■ Spain...... 6% ■ Canada...... 6% ■ Taiwan...... 6% ■ South Africa...... 5% ■ Holland...... 3% ■ Portugal...... 3% ■ United States...... 3% (Clockwise from top) Francisco de Lemos José Maria, Mateus Neto, Paulino Jerónimo, Fernandes Mateus, Ana da Costa, Fernando Roberto, Anabela Fonseca

SONANGOL REFINED PRODUCTS

2013 2014 % CHANGE

*Luanda refining 45,873 44,886 -2.2

**Imported refined products 4,340,821 4,653,403 +7.2

**Domestic sales 6,349,862 5,216,368 - 17.9

Source: Sonangol E.P. *bpd **cubic metres

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