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Celebrating Angola’s Independence

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DECEMBER 2015 ANGOLA’S SONANGOL’S ANGOLA’S FIRST REFINING PROJECTS TELECOMS SUCCESS CYCLING TOUR

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

Executive administrators: Thierry Gonzales Anabela Soares de Brito da Fonseca, 4 3 NEWS BRIEFING Ana Joaquina Van-Dúnem Alves da Costa, Fernandes Gaspar Bernardo Mateus, Fernando Joaquim Roberto, A roundup of national and international news concerning Mateus Sebastião Francisco Neto, Sonangol and Angola Paulino Fernando Carvalho Jerónimo Non-executive administrators: Albina Assis Africano, José Gime, 4

André Lelo, José Paiva 10 3 ANGOLA: SO REFINED Sonangol Department for Communication & Image Director How Sonaref is contributing to fuel self-sufficiency Mateus Cristóvão Benza Shutterstock Corporate Communications Assistants SENSE OF Nadiejda Santos, Paula Almeida, Hélder Sirgado, Kimesso Kissoka INDEPENDENCE 18 3 MSTELCOM: CONNECTING ANGOLA  Publisher: Sheila O’Callaghan Sonangol’s communications’ arm achieves success 10 Editor: John Kolodziejski Managing Editor: Mauro Perillo ngola held its very first international cycle tour in October

Art Director: Tony Hill Brazuk Ltd. as part of the commemorations marking 40 years of 26 3 ANABELA FONSECA: WORKING FOR ANGOLA Sub Editor: Brian MacReamoinn independence. The cyclists raced along 1,177km of good Proofreading: Gail Nelson-Bonebrake A roads and crossed nine of the most populous provinces from Bié to The career of the Sonangol board member Circulation & Production Manager: Matthew Alexander Benguela, Malange and Uíge before arriving in Luanda. Production Assistant: Sebnem Brown Project Consultant: Nathalie MacCarthy The open road has long been a popular metaphor for freedom, and the bicycle, which can go almost everywhere and relies only on LIANZI GOES LIVE Group President: John Charles Gasser 32 3 18 the rider’s energy, is a symbol of personal independence. Angola’s first binational offshore scheme starts up Angola’s road to independence wasn’t smooth, many sacrifices Chevron were made in life, resources and basic infrastructure. The most Universo is produced by Impact Media Custom Publishing. satisfying date after the ending of colonial rule in Angola was April The views expressed in the publication are not necessarily ANGOLA WEARS THE YELLOW JERSEY those of Sonangol or the publishers. Reproduction in whole 2002 which saw the signing of the peace agreement. Since then the 34 3 or in part without prior permission is prohibited. country has boomed and invested massively in reconstructing its The winning ways of the country’s first international cycle tour This magazine is distributed to a closed circulation. roads, bridges, railways, ports and airports. To receive a free copy: The value of the cycle tour lies in the fact that has permitted [email protected] 32 Angola to showcase its economic recovery and tourist potential, Circulation: 15,000 40 ANGOLA: HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY demonstrating that the nation is now at peace and the 3 Davenport House, 16 Pepper Street, London E14 9RP Shutterstock United Kingdom infrastructure is in place to allow the free movement of people and How modern Angola is reaping the fruits of peace Tel + 44 20 7510 9595 | Fax +44 20 7510 9596 goods throughout its territory. The roads in independent Angola [email protected] www.universo-magazine.com now ensure a much smoother running economy. www.sonangol.co.ao [email protected] John Kolodziejski Front cover: Kostadin Luchansky / Editor Shutterstock 40 Universo is printed on FSC approved stock

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A NEW MODEL FOR ANGOLA’S Sonangol gives best OIL SECTOR conference paper 3 President José Eduardo dos Santos ordered the setting up of a commission to draw up 3 A member of Sonangol E.P.’s production department, Jacob Jacob Cruz receives an integrated strategy and to propose new Cruz, received a prize during the recent Deep Offshore Technology his award organisational models for Angola’s oil sector (DOT) conference held in Texas. The award was in recognition of the on October 23. The aim behind the move is to quality of his paper on monitoring riser systems in Angola. increase the efficiency of the industry. Risers are the pipes or flow lines which transport oil and gas from According to a statement from the wells on the ocean floor to platforms or vessels on the surface. president’s cabinet office, the commission will Cruz’s article was considered the best at DOT 2015 and was consist of ministers of state and the head of produced as part of a study on the riser system undertaken by the Sonangol and the cabinet office. Ministries included will be Angola Deepwater Consortium, a partnership between Sonangol those of Planning and Territorial Development, E.P. and Doris Engineering. Finance, Economy and Petroleum as well as the National Bank, a representative of Sonangol Eni get closer E.P. and two independent consultants. The committee is tasked with preparing a diagnostic study of the oil sector’s situation 3 Sonangol’s chairman, Francisco de Lemos José Maria, and Eni’s CEO, Claudio as well as developing organisational models, MOZAMBIQUE LEADER Descalzi, agreed to strengthen the operational and strategic partnership between identifying operational opportunities and the two companies at a meeting in Rome on November 4. quantifying potential improvements to They confirmed their commitment to using gas extracted by Eni in Angola to Sonangol E.P. to find the best way forward for provide energy for the domestic market. The partners will jointly evaluate the the national oil and gas industry. TOURS REFINERY development of gas fields in the Angolan basin of the Lower Congo and propose During a state-of-the-nation speech to the to use the gas locally to generate as much as 1.5GW. National Assembly on behalf of President dos Malocha Additionally, Eni will support Sonangol in the development of the multi-billion Santos on October 16, Vice President Manuel 3 President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique visited Luanda’s dollar Lobito refinery project. Vicente, Sonangol’s former chairman, said that Sonarel refinery on November 9 during his two-day visit oil production’s share of GDP fell to just 35 per to Angola. Staff showed the president the control room, cent in 2014 from 58 per cent in 2008, owing production units, the laboratory and the combined cycle to the doubling between 2008 and 2014 of the power plant. Sonangol’s delegate administrator at the non-oil GDP rate. Forecasts for this year point refinery, Custódio Gonçalves, said output would rise to GDP growth of 4 per cent, with the oil sector from its current processing capacity of 55,000 barrels rising by 7.8 per cent. per day (bpd) to 65,000 bpd by the second half of 2016. Shutterstock

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Block 17 ANGOLAN EUROBONDS VP ATTENDS INDIA–AFRICA SUMMIT

3 Vice President Manuel Vicente, representing President dos pumps up FOR SALE Santos, led the Angolan delegation to the Third India–Africa Forum Summit in New Delhi on October 29.

the volume 3 Angola announced the launch of sovereign debt bonds on the international The team at the four-day summit comprised foreign affairs AP Photo /Tsering Topgyal market in the form of eurobonds worth $1.5 billion in October. The move is part of minister, Georges Chikoti, agriculture minister, Afonso Pedro 3 Sonangol and Total E&P Angola announced the government’s long-term economic and financial development programme. Canga; energy and waters minister, João Baptista Borges; and the the start of an innovative project to raise oil With this bond issue on the London Stock Exchange, the government aims to minister for telecommunications and information technologies, production in Block 17 on October 30. The use diversify the country’s funding sources and building up enduring relationships José Carvalho da Rocha. of new deepwater multiphase high-pressure with international investors in all major financial centres. India is one of the main investors in African countries, covering pumps (MPPs) will add 30,000 barrels of oil The bonds may also help increase the inflow of foreign capital and build areas such as oil, gas, the petrochemical industry, information per day to output from the Rosa oil field. The Angola’s international reserves. The sale is the fruit of efforts begun in 2011 technology, infrastructure, agriculture and health. It has made pumps are located on the seabed and connect to enter this market. The government took technical and legal advice for the particularly significant progress in farming, industry and to the existing underwater network of wells initiative from financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, the technology and is one of the world’s 10 largest exporters of and pipelines. World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. agricultural produce. The pumps will allow recovery of about Goldman Sachs International, Deutsche Bank and the Industrial and Over the past four years, the Asian powerhouse has invested 42 million barrels of additional reserves, Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) will act as agents for the bond issue. $7.4 billion in 137 development projects in 41 African countries. Sonangol said. The extra pumping capacity is part of the wider Girassol Resources project, initiated in 2010, which aims to recover more oil Mozambican author from mature fields. The wells in question are connected to the Girassol FPSO (floating Chevron registers production, storage and offloading vessel). nets Sonangol prize The project technology is a world first and Angolan banks 5 billion barrels includes the installation of an electrical cable 3 Mozambique’s Suleimane Cassamo Abdulumane has won the 2016 Sonangol linking two FPSOs, Girassol and Dália, in order Grand Prize for literature with his book The Mbona Letter. Abdulumane works 3 Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, a to power the new pumps. under the pseudonym Peniwaku Sassa. make top 100 Chevron subsidiary recorded the Block 17, involving four FPSOs, is one of The award was made in Luanda by the Union of Angolan Writers (UEA) which drilling of its 5 billionth barrel of oil Total’s most important operations and reached praised the quality of the book’s subject, its educational value and the rhythm 3 Nine of the top 100 banks in Africa in terms of capital are Angolan, according to the 2015 list from Blocks Zero and 14 in Angola an impressive 2 billion barrels of accumulated of its sublime prose, as well as its creative power and originality. drawn up by African Business Magazine. in August, to having operated in the production in April this year. The prize jury also gave an honourable mention to The Dance in the Rain by The first of these is Banco Económico de Angola (formerly Banco Espírito Santo Angola) in country for 60 years. Angola’s Fragata de Morais, who writes under the name of Soma Yinene. 16th place. Its capital is estimated at $1.6 billion. In 25th spot on the list is Banco Angolano de Managing director John Baltz said Antonio Fernandes da Costa from Angola’s Minsitry of Culture presided Investimentos with $980 million, and in 29th is Banco de Poupança e Crédito with $880 million, that despite the fall in international over the jury, which comprised Cornelio Caley, representing Sonangol, the in 34th is Banco de Fomento Angola ($707 million), Banco BIC ($686 million). oil prices, Chevron is maintaining sponsor; Manuel Muanza from the UEA; Carlos Paradona (Mozambique); Banco Millennium Angola recently merged with Banco Privado Atlântico, so the resulting outfit its production efficiency levels, and Thierry Gonzales Fátima Fernandes (Cape Verde); Francisco Conduto de Pina (Guiné-Bissau) is expected to rise significantly in the 2016 rankings. in the long period it has been in and Frederico Gustavo dos Anjos (São Tomé e Príncipe). The first five places in the list include four banks from South Africa: Standard Bank Group Angola, it has been able to deal with There will be a presentation ceremony on February 25, 2016, when Sonangol ($12.4 billion), FirstRand ($4.8 billion), Absa Bank ($4.3 billion) and Nedbank Group ($4.2 billion). times of crisis. commemorates its 40th anniversary.

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ANGOLAN President Neto’s INVENTORS life in pictures WIN GOLD 3 Angolan inventors won two gold medals at the 3 The Angolan embassy in London held a photographic exhibition in September to 67th International Fair of Ideas, Inventions and commemorate the life and work of Angola’s first president, Agostinho Neto. New Products (IENA) held in Nuremburg, Germany, Exponential success The 253 photographs on display showed various facets of Angola’s first president’s life in October. as a politician, doctor, statesman and man of culture. The first gold went to Lueji A’Nkonde of Luanda’s In a statement, the embassy said: “Thirty-six years after his death, the teachings of Faculty of Medicine for his work on protection against at Milan António Agostinho Neto remain alive in the memory and everyday practice of the continuers snakebites in rural populations and preventive of his immortal works, particularly his successor, President José Eduardo dos Santos, ‘the measures in urban areas. 3 Angola’s pavilion at the international exhibition Expo Milano 2015 attracted Architect of Peace’ and the principal builder of the country’s development.” António Manuel Kawele picked up his gold for the a record 2 million visitors during its 184-day run which ended on October 31. The statement went on to say that the executive aims to make Angola grow even more recycling of waste materials into works of art such as The country was awarded the fair’s silver medal for its display ‘Food and and continue to distribute income better, and to engage in a wide-ranging dialogue with the handbags, slippers, necklaces and bracelets. Culture: Education for Innovation’. young, with women in the countryside and with the country’s active forces, showing that Altogether 10 Angolan entrants presented 19 The pavilion showcased Angola’s rich culinary tradition and its tourism Neto’s legacy is an aspiration already deeply rooted in Angolans’ collective memory and projects at the fair, including an apparatus to avoid oil potential. Albina Assis, general commissioner of the country’s delegation, one that the nation is achieving gradually and consciously. spills at sea devised by Ricardo Antunes Figueiredo. said the award demonstrated the wide international interest expressed in There were 10 medals awarded to the Angolans: knowing more about Angolan traditions and culture. two gold, three silver and five bronze. Gabriel Luís National Day was celebrated at the Expo on September 17 and several Miguel, the director of the National Technological cultural and political activities took place, which were graced by the presence Centre (CTN), led the country’s delegation. of Vice President Manuel Vicente.

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3 Botswana made its first state visit to Angola in October. President Seretse Khama Ian Khama said his two-day trip came at the right time, noting PROPOSALS that, though the two countries are neighbours, they had no cooperation agreements in the areas of trade, agriculture and tourism. However, the southern African nation has been selling beef and livestock ON THE TABLE vaccines to Angola, and there have been discussions regarding the development of the Okavango wildlife park on their shared border. 3 Sonangol opened proposals to prospect for oil and gas in 10 onshore Among the 38 oil companies prequalified in this bidding process, President Khama said Angola was interested in Botswana’s farming blocks on October 2. Examination of the proposals for the blocks in the begun in April last year, were operators including Italy’s Eni, US major expertise, beef production and veterinary services, while in turn, his Kwanza and Lower Congo basins will take place and then Sonangol will Chevron, Colombia’s Ecopetrol and Portugal’s Galp Energia and Partex. country would be interested in a partnership in Angola’s developing oil award concessions, the company said. In the running as non-operators (minority contractors in groups refining projects. There are seven blocks in the Kwanza Basin and a further three in the to be established in each block), Sonangol selected 47 companies as Lower Congo Basin, and together they could account for over half of all prequalified, although it is not known which of these did in fact put known reserves in Angola at around 7 billion barrels. forward final proposals.

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The oil terminal site at Lobito refinery

Angola currently imports around 80 per cent of its fuel needs, but this situation is set to end thanks to the construction of two new refineries. Universo donned its hard hat and went on-site to find out ANGOLA: SO REFINED

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Lobito is a larger refinery than Soyo, capable of processing

200,000 bpd of crude

The Lobito refinery site. The oil terminal is just visible top right of the picture.

ngola spends around momentum in June with the start of 100,000 tonnes of crude. There will also industries such as petrochemicals and possibly Lobito is a larger refinery than Soyo, $5 billion a year on imports work on a second facility at Soyo, Zaire be a power plant, a residential area for plastics later on. capable of processing 200,000 bpd of crude, A of refined oil products and province, near the Congo estuary. a thousand employees, and water and In turn, the chairman of the China and will produce unleaded gasoline, diesel, jet currently processes just one-fifth of The Soyo refinery will have the wastewater treatment facilities. International Fund, You Hao Ming, noted that fuel (Jet1), kerosene and LPG, as well as sulphur its requirements. In order to reduce capacity to process 110,000 bpd of The construction site is at the project was a capital gain for the province in and oil coke. These products will match target imports and achieve self-sufficiency, oil when it starts operations in 2017. Kifuquena, 5km southwest of Soyo. particular and the country in general. markets including Angola, Europe and USA. the government has embarked Refined products will include 853,400 Building work is being undertaken by “We are building a modern refinery with This high conversion type of refinery, with a on building two new refineries on tonnes per year of diesel, 558,500 tonnes China Tianchen Engineering Corp. and very sophisticated equipment and rigorous price tag of over $8 billion, will occupy an area greenfield sites. of petrol, 180,000 tonnes of kerosene, is expected to last 26 months. environmental criteria,” he added. of approximately 150 hectares and is located The country currently has just 44,500 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas In a speech marking the laying of about 8km north of Lobito. Its facilities will one operational refinery – Sonangol (LPG) and 20,700 tonnes of benzene. the first stone at Soyo, Sonangol CEO Lobito project be equipped with groundbreaking technology Refinaria de Luanda (Sonarel) on the This extensive installation Francisco de Lemos José Maria said Soyo is Angola’s second new oil processing project which, in order to ensure reliability and safety, northern outskirts of the capital – which comprises a processing unit, crude oil construction of the refinery was part following in the wake of the Lobito Sonaref complies with the industry’s international has processing capacity of around storage tanks and a transportation area, of the executive programme aimed refinery in Benguela province, where construction certification standards. The plant will be 57,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude. as well as a pier to moor two tankers, at diversifying production, reducing work began in 2012. Sonaref (Sonangol Refinação) self-sufficient with regards to electricity and The refining industry gained new each with capacity to carry up to fuel imports and stimulating other is Sonangol’s oil refining subsidiary. water supply.

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INTERVIEW WITH JOÃO RAMOS, PRESIDENT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION AT SONAREF

What does the Lobito project mean for Angola? At what stage is the work on the Lobito refinery? The project is of outstanding importance for Work began in January 2012, and is related to Sonangol and for Angola. It’s strategic and supporting the infrastructure for building the considered a mega-project because of the volume refinery itself, namely: of investments, because of its technological • The oil terminal, which Sonangol will use to complexity and for its economic and social impact unload the material and heavy equipment during on the country and on the province of Benguela the refinery’s construction phase and later for in particular. As we know, Angola’s economy has the dispatching of fuel grown vertiginously in recent years, as have its • The special highway prepared to support and industry and vehicle fleets. transport extremely heavy and large equipment The only refinery we have, located in Luanda, • The service road for the pipelines between the doesn’t cover domestic market consumption. refinery and the oil terminal Following the orientation of the Angolan • Terracing, where the refinery will be erected executive’s National Development Plan, the government mandated Sonangol – through The level of execution of the above is around 95 per Sonaref – to implement this structural project, cent. Work has proceeded satisfactorily, using best which aims to reduce dependence and add value to practice in engineering, safety, environment and Angolan crudes, transforming them into high-value quality as well as meeting schedules. commercial fuels. This refinery was designed to process 200,000 What will be the next step? bpd and will supply the country’s needs by producing Once US company KBR completes the studies of high-quality commercial fuels, namely LPG, petrol, the refinery’s configuration, then Sonangol and Jet 1, kerosene and diesel. It will be a highly Engineers India Limited [EIL] will carry out the final complex, efficient and modern refinery. revision process to adapt to the characteristics of Implementation of the project will increase the new types of crude oil discovered in Angola. domestic supply and strengthen Sonangol’s logistics Then Sonangol will contract a company to build chain in refining and fuel sales, as well as sales of the refinery, which will comprise processing units, other oil products for the home market and for the utilities, storage and systems of importing and region. The projected production capacity at the exporting products at the sea terminal. Lobito refinery, added to current production at the At the same time we will start the second Luanda refinery, will allow us to satisfy a significant package of works that will allow us to accelerate part of domestic market demand. In this crucial the future mobilisation of the refinery. This package phase of Angola’s development, diversification will include: of the economy is the order of the day, and the • Camps for the company staff and contractors processing of the raw material, which is Angolan • Administrative and support buildings crude, will support the country’s industrialisation • Tanks for the temporary import of refined products and contribute to greater revenue collection for the • Support structures for importing and dispatching state budget. • Utilities José Quarenta

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The Lobito project will increase domestic fuel supplies SONAREF and strengthen Sonangol’s logistic chain – João Ramos On July 1, Sonangol’s refining arm Sonaref, celebrated six years since its foundation. As part of the Sonangol group, it builds and operates refineries, maintains its installations and prepares, processes and Will the refinery produce petrochemicals Sonangol is the only investor in the project The executive branch has called upon Lobito oil terminal site sells oil products. in the future? at the moment and is represented by its Sonangol E.P. to develop infrastructure It also has shares in refining The refinery’s configuration does not subsidiaries Sonaref, through SIP (Sonaref projects to support the country’s overall companies at home and abroad. Sonaref envisage petrochemicals in this current Investimentos e Participações) with 51 per sustainable development and to support Corporação has two subsidiaries: Sonarel, phase. The Lobito project is aware of the cent, Sonangol Gás Natural with 39 per cent efforts to diversify the economy. It’s in this Luanda refinery In June 1999, oil company Total which oversees the Luanda refinery, and dynamic of the needs of the local market. and Sonangol Holdings with 10 per cent. context that new projects may be considered. The Luanda refinery is the only one acquired a stake in the refinery, which it SIP, its investment vehicle. We believe it (refining) to be a sector in On the other hand, the search for in operation in Angola at present. It managed jointly with Fina Petróleos de rapid growth, a factor of opportunity for investors wishing to become partners to Does Sonangol have any involvement in the processes an average of 52,000 barrels Angola (Total Fina Consortium). the implementation of the policies that develop the Lobito refinery is of particular Soyo refinery project? of oil using the Palanca and Plutónio In February 2000, Elf took a guarantee its sustainability. It is with this in importance, in the sense that it will reduce Sonaref, via its subsidiary SIP, has already grades. They satisfy around 20 per cent shareholding and joined the refining and sales. Currently the refinery uses mind that the project expects to include a Sonangol’s financial burden and contribute formalised its intention to acquire a of Angola’s fuel needs. business in partnership with Total and Angolan grades such as Palanca, Soyo, petrochemical component in the future, so with technological and commercial know- 20 per cent share in the Soyo refinery. The first refinery installations were Fina to form TotalFinaElf. A few years Nemba, Kuito, Canuku and Hungo. as to respond to domestic needs. how. In this respect, efforts continue to The initiative stems from the corporate inaugurated in May 1958 on a 170-hectare later, in May 2003, Total bought all the Refined products include gas, butane, attract potential partners. strategy of increasing its processing site 14km north of Luanda city centre. shares of the other companies and began naphtha, petrol, Jet B, Jet A1, oil, diesel, How is the process going for recruiting capacity so as to maintain its lead in The facility has since been enveloped by to manage the business as sole owner of fuel oil and asphalt. Some products such and training new staff to operate and work Is the electricity transmission line from supplying products at the local level and the capital’s huge conurbation. the refinery. as fuel oil and naphtha are exported to in Lobito? Cambambe to Lobito already operational? later regionally. The original refining company was Finally in July 2007, with an eye to markets in Europe and USA. As part of building the refinery, Sonangol This enterprise isn’t under Sonangol’s Companhia de Petróleos de Angola, a the strategic value of the country’s only has recruited and trained dozens of control. The Ministry of Energy and Waters Is there a possibility of building a rail link subsidiary of Belgian group Petrangol, refinery, Sonangol acquired all of Total’s Quality performance engineers and technicians that will work on is undertaking responsibility for it. At any from the refinery to the Benguela railway? which now gives its name to the suburb. shares with a view to completing its As with all Sonangol operations, Sonarel the project. Other specialists will be trained event, the use of of the public grid may be a At the moment we are studying the Initial output was just 100,000 tonnes business chain, and gave the refinery is constantly improving staff performance to be part of project teams, to accompany means of reducing production costs. possibility of building a new rail link to per year. the name Sonangol Refinaria de Luanda in processes and in equipment the work, raise technical capacity and in connect the Benguela railway to the Lobito The refinery has survived war damage. (Sonarel). It became a subsidiary of maintenance. This makes it stand out as future be part of the refinery operating staff. Are there plans to build pipelines between Ocean Terminal, owned by Sonangol In 1981 it was attacked by South African Sonangol E.P. and since then Angola one of the leading African refineries. the refinery and its main markets, for Logística, to cement factory Secil, to the troops and six fuel storage tank and an has managed the refinery. In 2012, the Sonarel holds ISO 9001:2008 Which companies are involved in example Lobito to Huambo or even as far Minerals Terminal and eventually to the LPG sphere were destroyed, although this Luanda plant became part of subsidiary certification for the quality of its developing the Lobito project? as Zambia? Sonaref Oil Terminal. did not stop refinery operations. Sonaref, which became an arm of products and ISO 14000:2004 for its On October 27, 1982, Petrangol, owner Sonangol E.P., a sub-holding of the environmental protection measures. of the refinery, was acquired by Fina and refining business. It also boasts safety certificate OHSAS was renamed Fina Petróleos de Angola. After a series of expansions, Sonarel 18001:2007 for risk prevention. In 1987, another South African now has capacity of 2,800,000 tonnes per The refinery also aims to be a good sabotage attempt was made but a year or 57,000 bpd, 28 times its original corporate citizen. It supplies water to mine was activated and the attack was capacity. The fuel produced is dispatched the Petrangol suburb and supports local abandoned. Troops made another attack from the refinery by sea and land via schools in the São Pedro da Barra district, on the refinery during the Civil War in a network of pipelines to Sonangol where it has built and equipped three 1991, but did not damage it. Distribuidora, which handles distribution health centres.

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Angola benefits from having one of the most sophisticated telecommunications networks in Africa. Universo examines the key role MSTelcom plays in the sector

he revolution brought about by information technology and modern communications in our everyday lives is one Tthat each of us marvels at regularly. Almost gone are the days when a telephone was just a means to speak to someone. Now a diminutive handheld device can transmit voice calls, take high-definition photos, make films, send texts and access the Internet, while also monitoring your health and holding your lifelong music collection. All these functions are supported behind the scenes by a vast complex of high-speed digital infrastructure. Sonangol’s MSTelcom subsidiary plays a discreet role in this world and is a largely unsung hero in the history and development of Angola’s telecommunications sector. “The importance of MSTelcom resides in the fact that the company acts as a partner par excellence for Sonangol E.P. and its subsidiaries in its role as a telecommunications service MSTELCOM: provider. This includes, among other segments, providing a private network for secure communications services such as data transmission, telephony, radio communications, Internet connectivity and so on,” Oldemiro Napoleão, head of the CONNECT company’s marketing department, told Universo. “Additionally, MSTelcom gives Sonangol E.P. increased value because of its focus on meeting the telecommunications needs of the Angolan oil and gas sector, contributing in this way to ANGOLA this sector’s growth,” he explained. He outlined the impact of AngoSat and of the West African Cable System (WACS) on the company’s operations. “We view the commercial launch of Angola Cable back in

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2009, as well as the upcoming operational launch MSTELCOM TIMELINE of AngoSat, as being complementary to the wide range of telecommunications services MSTelcom already offers to the Angolan market. First established as a “On the one hand, as a stakeholder in the Angola Cables consortium, MSTelcom has access 1996 telecommunications provider to its own reserve of capacity, which in turn, it for Sonangol group offers to its customers at very attractive prices. On the other hand, AngoSat and MSTelcom cater to distinct target markets, so it is our expectation that once the former’s operations come online, its Began its commercial activities impact on our company will be marginal.” 1999 and provision of services to the According to Napoleão, MSTelcom’s role is Angolan market in general Let your fingers do the talking not restricted just to the energy sector. “It is also one of the largest providers of satellite communications in sub-Saharan Africa in terms of contracted ‘The world has moved from space segment. It has clients such as both licensed mobile Receives a license from the operators in Angola (Unitel and Movicel), as well as several Angolan Institute of huge mobile phone sets to Angolan government ministerial bodies. It also has its very 2003 Communications (INACOM) to act small ones that do everything. own national optical transmission network (OTN), while its as fixed line telecommunications Similarly, MSTelcom has grown metropolitan networks account for a significant share of its investments in recent years. services operator in Angola and adapted its capabilities and “Two recent examples serve to highlight MSTelcom’s core competencies as a means role as a strategic partner to the government of Angola, and to keep up with technological not merely as the telecommunications provider of choice in Acquires and merges with Nexus developments and trends’ Angola: the company was awarded two separate contracts 2005 Telecomunicações e Serviços, SA to provide national satellite and Internet connectivity to the – Mário Oliveira, executive member of Ministries of Defence and of Finance, which in turn enable MSTelcom’s board of directors these government departments to provide better services to ordinary citizens and communities.

Mário Oliveira, executive member of MSTelcom’s board of directors Acquires Angola Comunicações & Sistemas (ACS) as an 2006 autonomous business unit to serve the corporate market segment Shutterstock

Establishes Net One Telecomunicações (Net One), SA as business unit to serve the small office/home office (SOHO) 2009 and residential market segment

Co-founds the Angola Cables and West Africa Cable System (WACS) consortia, the wholesale telecoms companies which supply and manage international transmission capacity to telecoms operators on Africa’s West coast

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Bengo WORKPLACE QUALITY ON SHOW

Cuanza Luanda Malange Lunda 1 Norte Norte Quality, health, safety and the environment (QHSE) is an integral part

4 of many modern businesses, but rarely is this obvious to the casual Lunda observer. MSTelcom is different. Its offices offer a great example of how Cuanza Sul Sul to create an excellent, high-quality working environment.

Located behind the large industrial expanse of Sonangol’s Luanda

refinery (Sonarel), the company’s array of masts, satellite dishes and 6 Bié 3 Moxico offices nest in a green, wooded oasis, which contrasts sharply with Huambo 7 Benguela the surrounding sandy unsurfaced roads and grey walls of sprawling

factories and suburbs. There are few trees in the 14 km stretch that separate MSTelcom 5 Huíla from Luanda’s downtown. Unprompted, several staff members told Universo how much they looked forward to coming to their workplace,

Namibe Kuando Kubango despite its long and difficult road access. The site resembles a university campus park with a series of lightly-coloured, sometimes Cunene modernist, sometimes rustic-looking buildings. Some of the office interiors echo the simplicity and light of Japanese homes. All the installations are overshadowed by mature mango trees and separated by lawns, paths and well-stocked ornamental fishponds. The visitor is

Shutterstock greeted by the cries of many birds in a city where they are rarely heard. Filomena Cardoso Andrade runs MSTelcom’s QHSE management, Brazuk Ltd. and it becomes immediately clear that the drive for a high-quality The green oasis that is MSTelcom’s headquarters “The key to achieving both contracts in the oil and gas sector in-country. “This is a young company with working environment is something she embraces wholeheartedly. can be attributed to the company’s We offer a wide range of products for very good engineers, technicians and She explained that MSTelcom carries out a survey each year to Brazuk Ltd. highly qualified and mainly Angolan different telecoms service segments dedicated staff. There are many career measure staff satisfaction as part of its quality and environment policy. staff, as well as the accumulated such as radio, fibre optic and satellite opportunities here for the young and Along with the greenery and the pleasant luminosity of the offices, expertise and core competencies gained communications,” he stated. the willing,” Oliveira said. an on-site gymnasium aids staff in healthy living, and the company providing complex solutions for the oil “MSTelcom has grown a lot in 19 He cited the example of the car- encourages them to interact with the environment by planting trees. and gas sector companies for the past years. We started with around 15 staff washer, Estêvão Cahassa (see sidebar, Andrade qualified as a telecommunications engineer in Cuba in 1983, 19 years,” he explained. and now there are over 300. We’re one p. 25), who he met years ago working at and her long experience in this field has served her well. Quality in a Mário Oliveira is an executive member of the best in some telecoms segments the company gates. The company took telecoms company is not merely about a product, it’s also about services, of the company’s board of directors. such as data transmission.” Cahassa on as an employee, and he has “As a group of companies, our aim According to Oliveira, the company had a successful career. and quality applies to every aspect of providing services, including is to be the preferred telecoms provider plans to contract more staff to Morale at MSTelcom is high, possibly management systems. It’s also about transparency, she explained. in the oil and gas, business-to-business accompany its current growth because, because telecoms by its nature requires As a result of the company’s understanding of this cardinal principal, (particularly the banking sector,) and in spite of the current economic its practitioners to be open to new ideas MSTelcom gained ISO:9001 certification in 2010, making it one of the very the government sectors. constraints, the telecommunications and complex challenges, as well as few Angolan telecommunications companies to be ISO certified. “We provide telecommunications for sector continues to develop and needs continually developing innovative ways mobile operators, and we’re the leaders to focus on job training. of doing things. This includes taking on

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MSTelcom data centre at Viana Brazuk Ltd. Network control centre ESTÊVÃO CAHASSA – AN INSPIRING TALE Shutterstock Estêvão Cahassa was born in Ingombota, Luanda, in 1985 and earned a meagre living as a car-washer near MSTelcom’s head offices. He joined the company in 2000, The data storage unit at the Viana base initially as a fitter’s mate. He then welded transmission tower bases before moving on to general maintenance of buildings, generators, plumbing networks and so on for MSTelcom’s infrastructure department in 2007. Cahassa said he considered MSTelcom to be his school, a faculty as such. He then considered formal study, having left basic to guarantee the company’s business MSTelcom also recently completed education at 15. In 2006, he returned to continuity in the unlikely event of a work on a smaller modular data centre in school, despite facing great difficulties major disaster. In addition, the site the Viana/Bengo Special Economic Zone, in travelling to reach it across the city of will also house MSTelcom’s future designed initially to serve clients in that Luanda. Encouraged by a veteran engineer and primary office units. It will industrial region. This facility stores and the company’s former infrastructure new staff with a willingness to learn. Work began at ASA, located at Zango advanced data center facilities. If by accommodate the company’s primary the data and uses a belt-and-braces manager, Jorge Ramalheira, who recognised Oliveira likes nothing better than to in the outskirts of Luanda, in 2013 and chance a company loses its database, private data storage facilities, which approach to its maintenance in optimum Cahassa’s motivation, he entered the faculty get together with other engineers and it is expected to be fully functioning then it will be able to recover the lost are also expected to act as a disaster conditions. It has emergency generators of mechanics and later transferred to study specialists to plan projects together “like by 2017. It serves as a kind of highly- information in optimal time,” explained recovery centre for Sonangol E.P. and its for its operation and refrigeration, and telecommunications in Luanda. a family,” he said. protected and sophisticated virtual Olga Xavier, MSTelcom’s corporate subsidiary companies. these are also backed up by adequate He has since worked with both VSAT storage center for the company’s and its communications manager. The ASA When finished, ASA will consist UPS banks in the highly unlikely event and microwave transmission systems, again Data centres clients’ data, which may be securely held data center also ensures that there is of four main office buildings for of a simultaneous failure of the public much encouraged by experienced and senior MSTelcom has invested in two data and accessed in the event of a disaster no leaking of confidential information, MSTelcom staff, a building housing the power grid and the three high-capacity MSTelcom engineers such as Edgar Martins, centre projects to manage and provide recovery scenario, for example. as it meets the highest international site’s data centre with two adjacent diesel generators. Because the spacious managing director of ACS, and Cesarina backup for its clients. “From 2016, we will have the standards of security. buildings (housing both the power and Viana/Bengo data centre is designed on a Teixeira, managing director of MSTelcom’s The main one will be the ASA capacity to serve a large part of our The ASA data center site will air conditioning systems, respectively), modular basis, the company can expand oil and gas business unit. He is now a Data Centre (named after MSTelcom’s clients in Angola and potentially also accommodate an expanded two smaller support buildings, and an it as future orders present themselves, telecommunications assistant working at late CEO, Alberto Serafim Araújo), the beyond. Companies ask us to back up version of MSTelcom’s existing underground access and technical gallery adding modules to accommodate its the terrestrial transmissions department. second largest of its type in Africa. and store their sensitive data at our telecommunications centre in order covering the entire area of the site. clients’ growth.

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nabela Fonseca has been a Sonangol executive A administrator for more than ANABELA FONSECA: five years and has been with the company since January 1996. Her original career choice was medicine, but life took a different direction and she became a chemical engineer. “I was a bit too restless to stay still WORKING in an office, so I wanted a profession that would get me into the open air, and engineering was one of those professions.” Ironically, she has now ended up in an FOR ANGOLA office, though of course at the highest level.

Traditionally the oil sector has been Sonangol board member Engineer Anabela Fonseca talks to dominated by men. Why did you choose a Universo about her illustrious career within the company career in this industry? I didn’t choose a career in the oil industry specifically. I was born in Bié and came to Luanda to study. In my second year at university, I started looking for work, and I happened to get a job in the Ministry of Petroleum and began as a student intern. At the time I chose engineering, without a thought for the oil industry. With my degree I could have gone into industry, or energy; there were a range of sectors that would employ a chemical engineer. So the oil sector was mere chance. I went into the Ministry of Petroleum while still a student, and I’ve been in the oil industry ever since.

How would you describe your career within the company? It’s a career that’s had some good moments, such as when a person works on a specific project, on a certain problem and finds a solution to that problem. That’s a good moment. There are many challenges, and at times it’s frustrating, but I would say that it’s

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a career involving lots of learning assessed by our bosses, even by our moved into a much wider environment, – learning the subjects in which I’m colleagues, but also we’re assessed by where I didn’t manage to master all the

RESPONSIBILITIES involved, but learning also how to all the other workers. In market policy subjects. I had some insecurities and Stena Bulk deal with and relate to people. I learnt analysis, this doesn’t happen. It’s a very uncertainties. So that was a very big how to understand people. I’ve been active area. Because you have to make challenge. I’ve done my best, I’ve been disappointed with some, had pleasant things happen, the loading is done, the dedicated and tried to do it diligently. The hierarchy of responsibility surprises with others. cargo has to be sold, and at the best Have I succeeded? If I were to say that alongside Engineer Anabela Fonseca price. So, it’s a continuous process, and I’m satisfied, I would be lying. What tasks do you most like to do? this makes the activity quite dynamic Things happen, and when we look I went into the area of foreign trade. and very pleasurable. at Sonangol, there are many things that Administration In the petroleum ministry, I used to people criticise if it ends up not being so Anabela Fonseca work in the refining area, and then What positions have you found the perfect. But if we look positively, we can came to Sonangol’s commercial area, most challenging? see the good, beautiful and great things and I worked for some time as a Being an administrator, without doubt. that happen at Sonangol. We’ve moved Department specialist in market policy analysis in I came to the Sonangol board after about from the old building to this new one, of Information the Sales Board Department. After that six years of management. I spent three we’ve gone from 400,000–500,000 barrels Technology I was made head of the market policy years or so as head of a department which of crude production to 1.8 million and Alberto Ribeiro department. There was a restructuring, had fewer than 10 people. After that I could even reach 2 million. Department of and the Foreign Sales Board became became director, and there were no more We acquired 10 Suezmax ships We’ve gone from 400,000–500,000 barrels Quality, Safety and the Office of Sales Operations and so than 40. And afterwards, it isn’t easy for and three LNG ships. We’ve improved Environment I became director of this office. And whoever leaves this world without having the infrastructure in our installations of crude production to 1.8 million and Daniela Matos then I left the board of the office for the all the experience that is needed and goes outside Angola, many that aren’t yet Sonangol board. to a position in Sonangol’s administration, fully operational, but we have others could even reach 2 million. Sonangol Logistics The role that I most liked to in a company of that size. At that time that work. We have contributed to Luís Ferreira perform was as a specialist in market I was co-ordinator of the commercial training in this country and we have N. José Maria policy analysis, because you work in area. It was one of those areas of my trained scholarship holders who can what you like, have all the freedom responsibility, but I don’t remember well perform roles in any sector. Looking at to do something and aren’t assessed which were the other areas. these feats, I say, yes, I had a small part Sonaci all the time by everyone else. We are But we left that restricted world and in this, so it is gratifying. Are there some company, even the large maintenance It brings technology to the country, it Luís Pedro Manuel things that aren’t well done? There are! companies. They can provide services to brings employment, brings development Are there dissatisfied workers? Probably! a refinery and thus develop the region and creates independence.

SonAir is one of Fonsecas areas of responsibility It’s impossible to please everyone, but all where it is, wherever it’s situated. this makes us think that it was worth it. Workers improve their income, and Nowadays you are the administrator Sonip Yes, I think it was worthwhile. through their improved income they responsible for international assets and Orlando Veloso help to develop businesses on the investments. Under your supervision are How do you see the two new refinery side. They buy more, spend more, go very important group subsidiaries such as projects in Angola? more often to the cinema, eat out more Sonip, SonAir, Sonils and Sonaci. How do SonAir I would say that it’s a very difficult because their income is higher. This you divide your time to be able to respond João Andrade business, but it brings many benefits creates development and in this respect to all these different enterprises? to the country. It creates jobs, makes it’s good. The government gets more I dedicate to each enterprise the time it other businesses develop, other services, taxes and, most importantly, stops requires at that moment. I don’t divide because it isn’t refining alone, it’s being dependent on fuel supplies from the time: for example, two hours for this Petro Atlético everything that goes along with refining. abroad. Angola has the raw materials one and an hour for another. The one that Tomás Faria It’s the small gardening business, the and will get products which will supply asks me for more time in a certain week small cleaning business, the catering the market and so become independent. or day, it’s to them I will give more time.

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Persistence, honesty, performance and dedication. I think these

are values a woman must uphold in her career – Engineer Anabela Fonseca

Which of your responsibilities require more follow examples in questions of QSE. to it, they question why they have to do she must uphold. And she must adopt an time and dedication? It’s a bit like that – we have to set the it, because it’s a waste of time, because impartial and dedicated attitude, be herself, At this particular moment it’s SonAir. example so that our colleagues have safe it’s going to delay their work, but this is not underhand. If she does that, she will Sonaci also requires a little more time, attitudes that preserve the environment our work. When we arrive at a company, be successful wherever she is. That is the because it’s a relatively new subsidiary. and act within the norms. That is the we have to see if it has mapped out attitude every woman should have. By nature We are still adjusting our structures, procedure, the process. Management by processes, because only that way can women are better fighters than men, they procedures and norms. We’re working processes is what all companies in the we have ISO 90001 quality certification. make greater efforts than men. Maybe this is on the business model; we had arrived at world do. All of them aim to be certified, People complain that they have this the result of having always been labelled as one, but it seemed to us not to work very and quality certification is exactly that. and that to do. It’s one challenge after less able, so we always try to fight and we’ve well, and we’re now going to initiate a It’s us organising ourselves by another. We have to practically beg succeeded. I often use the phrase of the British new business analysis. process, it’s us working within the people to do it. ex-prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. She norms, which are the processes, but we used to say: ‘If you want a job done, ask a The Department of Quality, Safety and always think that paying attention to There are two female executive woman; if you want something to be said, ask Environment (QSE) which is under the this is a waste of time, because I have administrators at Sonangol. As a woman, a man.’ This means something, and I believe command of Daniela Matos, is also your to unload that ship, I have to sell that have you ever had any obstacles in your that because, to us, when they ask something, responsibility. How do you see the evolution cargo, I have to write that memo, so all professional life? we’re going to do it. Men I think have an easier of QSE, which is vital for every oil company, this is more important than any question No. Anyone who says don’t do that life: they get home and everything is done for at Sonangol? of QSE. And we don’t give it much because you’re a woman, or I’ve been them, their clothes might be chosen for the It’s as you said. It’s vital, it has a long importance. The greatest challenge put to one side for being a woman, next day. For the woman, that’s not the case: road to run. That doesn’t mean we of management is exactly that. It’s us no. The fact that I am on the board she arrives and probably has to look after the aren’t doing anything; we’ve taken some achieving this with all the company, is proof of this. I was for years the children, she has to take care of the house, she steps regarding QSE, but still many from top to bottom: think and breathe only woman there, and I heard many takes care of the husband. things need to be done, and the greatest quality, safety and environment. We times my colleagues talking among challenge is to work with people’s have to think that with quality our task men and saying, ‘Anabela is now also How would you define your mission in life? mental approach. Our mentality for is easier, we develop everything more a man’. But, apart from this, which To work and contribute so that Angola is a good issues that we don’t think are important easily, we lose less time. With safety was a joke, it was a healthy, agreeable place to live. – ‘Environment, no! I don’t need to worry we don’t run risks, we don’t put at risk atmosphere between us. But to say I about it, it’s a problem for my neighbour. the lives of other people, we don’t risk was discriminated against for being a Downtime Safety? Why? I’m alright here, nothing’s the security of our archives. And with woman, no, I never felt that. I know When not working, Fonseca likes to watch a going to happen to me’ – but they are environmental safety, we don’t pollute that women feel this discrimination a good film with a bowl of popcorn. She also subjects that we all must pay attention and do preserve nature, which belongs to lot today. Unfortunately they still feel it. likes to play games on her iPad and look after to, especially the managers. There all of us. But on the Sonangol board, I never felt her plants, especially her orchids. Fonseca is are things that we only learn through inhibited because of my sex. a regular yoga practitioner and a beach lover. example. Our father might say, “You Where do you think Sonangol still has While she likes to dance at parties, she prefers have to behave like this, you can’t dress to improve? What advice would you give to a young to sit on the sidelines and watch with a glass in lilac, only dress in black”, but if he In terms of quality, everything. We’ve woman entering or thinking of a career in of chilled champagne. She particularly likes dresses in lilac it’s obvious that the son done a simulation, we’ve already done the oil industry in Angola today? Angolan musical artists such as Paulo Flores, will dress in lilac too. So, that what our two, and it’s always a struggle for people Persistence, honesty, performance and Matias Damásio, Jacinto Tchipa, Carlos Burity Walter Costa parents do normally we will follow. We to do them. They don’t want to get down dedication. These are values which and Bangão.

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UPSTREAM UPSTREAM

BBLT platform

Ali Moshiri, Chevron’s top man in Africa

hevron Overseas (Congo) Limited water depth. The system transports started oil and gas production the oil from the field to the Benguela- Cfrom the Lianzi field, 105km off Belize-Lobito-Tomboco (BBLT) platform the coasts of the Republic of the Congo in Angola’s Block 14 and uses a direct and Angola. The field is jointly controlled electrical heating system to ensure fluid by both countries, and production began flow under a wide range of conditions. on schedule in early November. Crude oil at depth tends to congeal and Located in a water depth of 900 therefore needs warming in order to flow metres, Lianzi is Chevron’s first operated more freely. asset in the Republic of the Congo and Chevron Overseas (Congo) Limited the first cross-border oil project in operates the Lianzi field and has a 15.75 the Central African region. Output is per cent interest, along with its affiliates expected to average 40,000 barrels of Cabinda Gulf Oil (15.5 per cent), Total E&P crude oil per day. Congo (26.75 per cent), Angola Block 14 BV The project consists of four (10 per cent), Eni (10 per cent), Sonangol producing wells, three water injection P&P (10 per cent), SNPC (the Republic of wells and subsea tiebacks to an existing the Congo National Oil Company – 7.5 per platform in Block 14. cent) and Galp (4.5 per cent). “This milestone demonstrates that

we continue to make steady progress Brazuk Ltd. on delivering major development Republic projects,” said Jay Johnson, executive of the vice president of Upstream, Chevron Congo Republic of the Congo Corporation. “We have the industry’s strongest queue of major capital projects ANGOLA HAUTE that are expected to deliver significant (Cabinda) MER value and production growth.” “As the first offshore energy DRC development spanning national Lianzi LIANZI boundaries in the Central Africa region, ANGOLA Unit Lianzi represents a unique co-operative approach to shared offshore resources Benguela Belize and may serve as a model for the Lobito GOES LIVE development of similar cross-border Tomboco fields between two countries,” said Ali (BBLT) Moshiri, president of Chevron Africa Angola Angola and its neighbour the Republic of the Congo and Latin America Exploration and Production Company. have started production in the first ever binational oil The field, discovered in 2004, Congo Canyon includes a subsea production system field in Central Africa – Universo looks at the details and a 43km electrically heated flow- line system, the first of this kind of BLOCK 14 groundbreaking technology at this

32 SONANGOL UNIVERSO SONANGOL UNIVERSO 33 CELEBRATIONS The starting line-up at the Tour of Angola

YELLOW José Quarenta ANGOLA WEARS THE JERSEY The first cycling Tour of Angola has been a huge success. Universo was among the spectators cheering the riders on

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enguela-born Igor Silva, from Luanda’s Benfica club, was the overall winner of Bthe first Tour of Angola cycle race. The GRAÇA GONÇALVES: ON HER BIKE competition took place on October 7–18 and covered a total of 1,177km. Six foreign nations participated: Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, France and Portugal. Silva also won the final section of the tour on a closed circuit in Luanda which preceded the awards ceremony. The winner of the yellow jersey, who had previously won the Angolan national cycling championship, dedicated his victory to his club, to his coach, Carlos Araújo, and to all Angolans on the country’s 40th anniversary of independence. In the overall general classification of teams, Benfica de Luanda won first place with a time of 70 hours, 8 minutes and 34 seconds. French cyclists were the foreign competitors who recorded the best performance against the Angolans. Sonangol sponsored the cycling event as part of the celebrations commemorating Angola’s 40th anniversary of independence. The route crossed nine Angolan provinces: Bié, Huambo, Benguela, Cuanza Sul, Cuanza Norte, Malange, Uíge, Bengo and Luanda. The competition was so successful that a second edition is already being planned for Igor Silva, race winner

October 2016. José Quarenta The president of the Angolan Cycling A dozen teams took part in the tour Federation (FACI), Diógenes de Oliveira, said, One important highlight of the tour was the presence of “I’m really happy to have completed the event “We’re thinking of continuing to organise this the sole female competitor, 28-year-old Malange-born successfully, but I would have been even happier if there event in October, a period of not much heat and Graça Gonçalves of the David Ricardo School. Of the 85 had been more women in this great group,” she said. She not very intense rain, which makes it easier to run riders spread across 12 teams, 18 pulled out along the also called for more corporate sponsorship for the sport. the competition without hiccups.” way, some through injury, but Gonçalves completed On arriving at the end of the fifth stage in Cuanza Oliveira praised the support provincial every stage. Norte, Gonçalves was presented with a competition bike governments gave to all aspects of the She called for other women to take up the sport, from provincial Governor Henrique Júnior and 100,000 competition. They created the excellent conditions with the aim of increasing the numbers of females in the kwanzas from the president of Angola’s Paralympic of safety, accommodation and logistics as well 2016 tour and in other cycling competitions. The athlete Committee, Leonel da Rocha Pinto. The Organisation of as encouraging people to come out and cheer all said she was content with her performance and enjoyed Angolan Women (OMA) in Bengo province also gave her a the riders on. The inaugural Tour of Angola was having cycled alongside many experienced male athletes diploma of merit. positive at all levels, he said, despite being the from Africa and Europe. She also said the event would She thanked her team for their help and FACI for country’s first experience of its type. boost cycling in Angola, where riders had longed for such making her participation in the event possible, and “We had no serious accidents, just a few small a competition. Gonçalves called for future tours of the promised to be more dedicated and work harder to ones, which are normal in an event of this type. country to take place in other provinces. continue to merit their confidence in her. We had the swift help of both national and traffic

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police, the fire service, emergency doctors and helpful motorcyclists,” he explained. TOUR OF ANGOLA: The value of the tour has been that it FINAL CLASSIFICATION has showcased Angola’s tourist potential and has demonstrated that the country TOP TEN RIDERS is now at peace and the infrastructure is in place allowing the free movement of Igor Silva people throughout its territory. 1 (Benfica de Luanda, Angola) According to the event’s executive director, Justiniano Araújo, the tour also highlighted and promoted the expansion Dário António of this healthy sport, which requires 2 (Benfica de Luanda, Angola) physical fitness. The cyclists attracted large, appreciative crowds who lined the route Grzegorz Kwiatkowski as they sped across the country. In the 3 (Club de la Défense, France) 170km Ndalatando–Malange section spectators ignored the rain to cheer on the competitors. Cruz Tuto Araújo also praised the national 4 (Benfica de Luanda, Angola) and provincial governments’ efforts at making the competition possible, in some places ensuring that the road

José Quarenta Victor Araújo surface was in good condition and safe 5 (AA D’Helvetia, Portugal) for all the riders.

Growing the sport TOP TEN TEAMS Mederic Clain The governor of Cuanza Sul, Eusébio 6 (Club de la Défense, France) de Brito Teixeira, called for more young people to take up cycling so as to develop 1 Benfica de Luanda (Angola) the sport in the region. He pointed out 2 Club de la Défense (France) Bruno Araújo that the province was able to hold events José Quarenta 7 (Benfica de Luanda, Angola) of this scale because it had a network of 3 AA D’Helvetia (Portugal) quality hotels and road infrastructure 4 DR Congo ideal for the sport. For his part, the vice The Angolan clubs who participated Angola’s yellow jersey. He is the son of Julien Foucault governor of Malange, Gabriel Pontes, in the tour were Benfica de Luanda, legendary Angolan cyclist Alberto da 5 Jair Transportes (Angola) 8 (Club de la Défense, France) drew attention to the health and well- Santos FC de Luanda, Jair Transportes Silva ‘Pepino’. being benefits of cycling, and said that de Benguela, Hotel Luso, Nocebo do France provided Angola with the 6 Selecção de Esperanças (Angola) Malange would welcome and support Huambo and the Selecção de Esperanças. closest international competition of 7 Santos FC (Angola) Lucas Camilo similar events in the future. the tour, followed by Portugal and the 9 (Jair Transportes, Angola) Tour winner Silva said that he Competition results Democratic Republic of the Congo. 8 Hotel Luso (Angola) hoped the competition would encourage Igor Silva, aged 29, from the Benfica The first three winning cyclists in 9 Cuca Nocebo (Angola) cycling as a mass sport in Angola and de Luanda club, showed he was at his the competition were awarded prizes of Walter Silva that more people would participate in best by winning 5 of the 11 stages and 350,000 kwanzas, 250,000 kwanzas and 10 Mixed team (Cape Verde–Mozambique) 10 (Benfica de Luanda, Angola) national championships. beating the rest of the field to claim 150,000 kwanzas, respectively.

38 SONANGOL UNIVERSO SONANGOL UNIVERSO 39 Shutterstock INDEPENDENCE ANGOLA: HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY

A difficult birth The signing of Angola’s independence agreement in 1975 ended over four centuries of colonial control and sparked scenes of unbridled joy among the population, but the elation was short-lived. Armed conflict broke out almost immediately both within the country, and perhaps more worryingly, on its borders as apartheid-era South African forces made a bid to place their favoured party in power. Happily, this attack was repulsed by the timely arrival of Cuban troops in support of the new Angolan government. The dangers and uncertainties of civil war caused a rapid mass exodus of professional and skilled workers, among which were many of those who managed and operated Angola’s production and distribution systems. The war itself, and the resulting paucity of technical personnel, left industrial equipment Angola celebrated 40 years of independence on and a large part of the infant nation’s infrastructure in ruins. Road and rail communications across most of Angola’s provinces were damaged and blocked for decades as bridges were blown and land mines sown November 11. Universo looks back over the past like seeds over large areas. The expense of protecting the newly-born country was paid for dearly in lives, injuries and money. four decades at the country’s tough challenges The fledgling state reacted to its tough start by mobilising the population and defending itself while also endeavouring to make up for the skills of those and extraordinary achievements who had left the war-torn country. Foreign specialists and workers, most notably Cuban doctors, teachers, soldiers and builders, alongside internationalists from many other parts of the globe, helped fill the gap. The Soviet bloc provided the bulk of economic support. Early on in its nation-building process, in September 1979, Angola lost its

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Luanda’s changing skyline

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Presidents Neto and dos Santos with Cuba’s Fidel Castro

leader and first president, António A major step forward was US The problems faced at this new 11 per cent in the period 2003–11, Agostinho Neto – this was just four recognition of Angola in May 1993. start were compounded in the capital, according to the Organisation years after independence. He was This led to the Lusaka Agreement in Luanda, by recent mass migration as for Economic Co-operation and succeeded by the current incumbent, November 1994 to bring an end to the refugees fled their rural homes to seek Development (OECD). José Eduardo dos Santos. conflict. Full-scale war with UNITA protection. A once quiet city designed “Our aim is to expand the domestic broke out again in 1998, and the for half a million is now home to 10 market, integrate it and diversify the Quest for peace fighting only stopped in 2002 when its times that number. Once a population productive base,” declared President From 1986 to 1992, President dos leader, Jonas Savimbi, was killed. is in place, it is notoriously difficult to dos Santos. This was the objective of Santos sought to bring peace to Since then general elections in 2008 then insert the infrastructure needed the huge rebuilding programme that the country and the region. This and 2012 enhanced Angola’s democratic for roads, water, sewers and electricity has been transforming and enhancing culminated in an agreement ensuring credentials, giving a clear mandate to supplies. Angola in 2002 was a much Angola’s infrastructure since peace recognition of Angolan sovereignty the current MPLA government under tougher place to develop than the one was achieved. and the withdrawal of invading South President dos Santos. that saw the first flag of independence African troops in exchange for the raised in November 1975. Oiling the economy Angola 40, the logo of part of the independence celebrations repatriation of Angola’s Cuban allies. Unfettered reconstruction However, the country was Angola’s main industry and dollar- The apartheid regime collapsed not Angola’s greatest reconstruction fortunate to benefit from the high price earner is of course crude oil, which it Laúca dam - on schedule for opening in 2017 long afterwards in 1994. victories have only come about since of oil during the first decade of peace. currently produces at a rate of around The president then pushed peace was established in April 2002. This permitted huge investments 1.8 million barrels each day, compared for a negotiated settlement to The most remarkable aspect of the in replacing and enhancing the to less than a million in 2002. Angola’s civil conflict with the aim country’s development is its breakneck infrastructure necessary from 2002 State oil company Sonangol E.P. of establishing a pluralist state, pace in the relatively short period of to the present. Angola’s annual GDP has gained the respect of its foreign developing a market economy and just 13 years. growth rate averaged a staggering counterparts and works in partnership organising democratic elections. with the world’s largest operators. The first post-independence The firm’s many activities within election took place in September 1992, Angola include a speedy expansion of but the opposition party UNITA (União its fuel distribution network to every Nacional para a Independência Total The most remarkable aspect of province. Now Luanda alone boasts de Angola – National Union for the 261 petrol stations, when just over five Total Independence of Angola) refused the country’s development is its years ago it was possible to queue for to accept the MPLA (Movimento fuel for hours in the city that had only Popular de Libertação de Angola – breakneck pace in the relatively a handful of outlets. These stations People’s Movement for the Liberation also sometimes supply cooking of Angola) majority victory, which the short period of just 13 years gas, and often have an attached UN had judged to be free and fair. convenience store and café. Odebrecht

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Rebuilding Angola term, and this is clearly illustrated in is being uprated from its current has now been firmly re-established. There have been so many the colossal scale of its energy plans. 180MW. Then in 2017, the first turbine The revamped highways allow the great achievements in Angola’s of the 2,067MW Laúca mega-dam is wide circulation of goods and services, reconstruction efforts – too many to Energy set to spin. Not satisfied with this, an and have started to make the country list here – but the following should give Angola benefits from ample water even larger project, the colossal $4.5 operate as a unified market, with farm a general idea of its scale, although resources, and its current main power billion 2,172MW Caculo Cabaça dam, produce from once inaccessible areas this is only a rapid overview of some of source is the 520MW Capanda dam was announced in June. The Chinese now delivered to the towns. Family the changes taking place today. on the River Kwanza. Work started builder responsible is expected to take visits have become easier, and a new The country is being rebuilt from on Capanda in 1987 but, owing to the six years to complete it. nationwide bus service now connects the foundations up. The government war, only began producing energy in Meanwhile several smaller, older most provincial capitals with a regular has concentrated its massive 2004 and reached full capacity in 2007. dams have been refurbished such timetable. One exotic consequence of investment efforts on providing the From 2016, Capanda will be joined by as Matala and Gove on the River all this has been the sight in Luanda’s basic infrastructure needed for the long the 960MW Cambambe dam which Cunene. In total, Angola’s rivers have city centre of visiting Mwila women an estimated potential of 18,000MW – extravagantly bejewelled – who in Capanda dam of hydropower. the past rarely travelled outside their A major transmission line now homeland in the south. carries power from Cambambe to The capital also boasts a modern the Lobito–Benguela region. Long- motorway that sweeps in a wide arc interrupted irrigation projects, based around its conurbation. This helps on Angola’s plentiful waters and heavy port traffic avoid crossing the fertile soils, are now restarting with busy inner city area. the advent of reliable energy supplies. Industrial development such as On the rails food processing plants and mining Another major transport breakthrough

operations can go ahead as power has been the complete reconstruction becomes more widely available. The and re-equipping of Angola’s three hefty dam investments outlined above long distance east–west railways: Angolan railway show that Angola has an ambitious Luanda–Malange, the Benguela view of its future development, as Railway and the Moçâmedes line projected generation capacity is far in which links Namibe to Menongue. excess of current demand. The state has also upgraded Angola’s port services. The port of Luanda, once Roads to freedom one of the country’s biggest bottlenecks,

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Kamene Mendoza Traça the rebuilding of several thousand months to moor in 2007, now sees Luanda airport Luanda port kilometres of roads. Now, unlike in the waiting times of fewer than two days! quite recent past, it is not unusual to Container flows then were only 150,000 travel the length and breadth of this units per year, compared with 529,500 vast territory, four times the size of in 2014. New road and rail access the United Kingdom. Huge numbers means the port can now also make use of bridges had to be built from scratch of dry ports in the Cacuaco and Viana and only after the long, painstaking on Luanda’s periphery to alleviate removal of the surrounding congestion. Improved management and landmines. The right to travel without customs clearance have also helped to interference across the whole country speed up cargo handling.

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School children in Cuanza Norte Kilamba development Fresh Angolan produce in A school chemical laboratory Topside manufacture and installation. Porto Amboim shipyard, Paenal a Luanda supermarket

New port loading equipment and Social gains is the steep rise in mass education The government has a long-term development vision better transport access have also led to The health benefits Angolans have in Angola. ‘development corridors’ to the interior. enjoyed since independence are While in 2010 there were 4.4 million and is building wide and deep foundations to support it Lobito is now able to capture lucrative mostly due to mass vaccinations pupils in its schools, this figure jumped international freight traffic such as and disease prevention initiatives. to 6.1 million by June 2012 and has residents. The first 3,180 of 20,002 also growing numbers of cafés, bars ‘economic diversification’ and adding copper from neighbouring Zambia and Polio has been eradicated with a last continued to expand. apartments were completed in 2011. and restaurants. Two new shopping ‘local content’ to create more jobs, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. registered case in July 2011. There are A welcome consequence of the Many of the occupants in the new centres are about to be added in as the country seeks to move away Namibe port is now ready again to also vigorous campaigns to reduce return of Angolans to their homeland residential complex had been removed downtown Luanda, including the giant from reliance on oil sales. Angola has handle iron ore traffic in soon-to-be- mortality through the targeted use of once peace was re-established has from areas in danger of flooding and Kinaxixi development. The country has made great progress in engineering oil reopened mines at Menongue. donated mosquito nets. Cholera cases been the education and training they landslides in downtown Luanda. The come a long way from the shopping industry equipment, a prime example Meanwhile, a new superport is have fallen thanks to the expansion received there. government has completed similar desert it once was, but still needs being the building of the Paenal planned at Dande, north of Luanda, of treated domestic water supplies. Vocational and university training greenfield housing schemes in all of many more retailers. shipyard at Porto Amboim, where the and this will also tap minerals in The expansion of new housing abroad continues thanks to Angola’s Angola’s 18 provinces. The quality of life of many locals, country recently manufactured and the Kwanza valley as well as agri- developments has also increased many bilateral agreements with a as elsewhere on the planet, has been fitted complex topside modules for business traffic. wastewater collection and reduced host of countries, but more of these Urban improvements enhanced by the widespread use FPSOs (floating production, storage and Airports have been rebuilt and waterborne diseases. institutions are being established both Motorists are now enjoying better roads of mobile phones and information offloading vessels). Angola also makes modernised in every province and Benguela’s water company, in Luanda and in the provinces. and pedestrians, improved pavements technology. The appearance of large and loads the long cables and flow lines the multibillion-dollar new Luanda Águas de Benguela, has established in downtown Luanda. The government numbers of new banks on Angolan for oil rigs at its Angoflex yard near airport on the city outskirts is set for communal standpipes as a temporary Housing has redeveloped Luanda Bay as an streets has been a major peace Luanda, and welds huge rig structures completion in 2018. solution to domestic supplies while The Angolan government has built urban park several kilometres long, and dividend. Automated cash machines at Sonamet in Lobito and Ambriz in Another area of extraordinary new pipes are laid. This has led to large housing projects on greenfield the bay itself now boasts much cleaner are standard features and are well used Bengo province. growth is in telecommunications dramatic falls in cholera, with 400 sites to meet the massive shortage waters thanks to improved wastewater by the populace. The banking sector is a A key ingredient in stimulating (see story on MSTelcom, p.18). cases registered in 2009–10 compared of homes. All around the capital’s collection and flooding prevention. major employer in the new Angola. local training and employment is the Angola has excellent transmission with over 5,000 five years earlier. beltway, new buildings have risen. Angolans also now have access Angolanisation policy, which requires infrastructure, which supports The largest of several developments to new supermarket chains selling Economic diversification foreign companies to employ at least 85 plenty of capacity to offer advanced Education in Luanda is Kilamba Kiaxi district, local produce with just-in-time fresh The watchwords of Angolan per cent Angolans at all levels in their mobile services. Another great gain of independence which will eventually house 485,000 deliveries in most cities. There are development in recent years have been in-country operations.

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Manufacturing has also risen with the Elsewhere domestic food security is being underpinned building of special economic zones (ZEEs). by the construction of a series of huge grain silos. The largest is in the Viana area and now Angola is now producing rice thanks to Chinese boasts most of the industries related cooperation, and coffee production is slowly awaking from to Angola’s construction boom, such long neglect. as window fittings, plumbing plastics, The next big step in Angola’s economic diversification is electrical wiring, house tiles, etc. This the exploitation of its mineral resources, facilitated by the zone also produces irrigation equipment rebuilding of its railways. The country’s rich iron ore and and hosing. Angola’s textile industry is manganese deposits, once exported at an annual rate of over now gearing up to restart production in 6 million tonnes, are set to make a comeback in the next Luanda, Dondo and Benguela, thanks to couple of years. Japanese support. Another fast-developing industry is tourism and hotels. The country’s second largest export The oil boom led to a spate of hotel building to accommodate industry, diamonds, has also sought to the large numbers of foreign specialists, while easier road Shutterstock develop beyond mining and has started access has stimulated demand for new hotels throughout the to process and add value to diamonds by Biocom sugar plantation Angola now produces wine country for business clients and tourists.

producing jewellery. for export Shutterstock Apart from beach resorts, Angola is developing eco- Angola is also aiming at increasing tourist options based on its much devastated national parks self-reliance in refined oil products and is and natural beauties, such as Kalandula Falls. Kissama, building two new refineries, the $8 billion the nearest park to Luanda, has been restocked with South Lobito project and a smaller one at Soyo Angolan fashion African co-operation and is now thriving. The least accessible in Zaire province. park, Okavango Delta, on Angola’s Agribusiness is another area of Kissama National Park Namibian and Botswana borders, economic diversification and jobs is the latest unspoilt attraction for creation. Before independence, wildlife tourists in the country. the country was a major farming International cruise liners now commodities exporter, with a leading also visit Angola’s ports with growing international role in coffee and cotton. frequency. Owing to the damage caused by war, Zango development this part of the economy was all but Looking ahead deactivated, but is now experiencing a Having looked back over the past 40 slow but steady renaissance. Abandoned years, it is perhaps time to look ahead giant irrigated farming concerns have briefly to the promising future of this been resurrected, notably in Huíla and great country. Biocom Bengo provinces, but also along the major Brazuk Ltd. The gains listed above illustrate rivers, Kwanza and Cunene. well the scale of Angola’s post- The leading project is Biocom, an independence progress. The Shutterstock Angolan–Brazilian concern, which is government has a long-term expected to shortly make the nation self- development vision and is building sufficient in sugar as well as producing wide and deep foundations to biomass-generated electricity for the support it. The basic ingredients national grid and ethanol. A project near are in place: revamped roads, ports, Caxito is producing bananas and tomatoes, railways, airports and world-class and recently an Angolan vineyard in telecommunications. To realise Cuanza Sul province began exporting wine. Angola’s economic potential and

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supply the population with its needs, the government is adding massive power generation resources. These will provide the crucial spark for its already expanding agribusiness as well as its ambitious mining and industrialisation plans.

Sonangol celebrates 40 years of independence As part of the commemorative programme celebrating the country’s 40th anniversary, Sonangol sponsored a wide range of events which included the Tour of Angola cycle race (see p. 34). From August 15 to September 12, a musical roadshow travelled the country, with some events Performers at the roadshow produced free of charge by Arca Velha Entertainments and supported by provincial governments. Towns visited in four different venues, all organised season ever produced in Angola. on the tour were Soyo (Zaire), Luena by the Cena Livre company. The ‘Angola Sonangol sponsored an (Moxico), Malange, Huambo, Lubango 40 Years’ theatre season brought actors international football tournament (Huíla) and Benguela. and the public to the stage at LAASP, Angola 40 years. Angola hosted three The roadshow brought together a Njinga Mbandi auditorium, Elinga teams from neighbouring Zambia, large number of well-known Angolan Theatre and the IGCA Complex. The Namibia and Democratic Republic and international singers as well as performances began with a gala at Casa of the Congo (DRC). The home team new talents. Among the performers 70 where the play Presidential Speeches dispatched Namibia 3–0 and went on taking part in the spectacles were was put on by the Sambizanga Theatre to overcome DRC 1–0 in the final. Yuri da Cunha, Pérola, Ary, Yannick Association. The work synthesised Other activities included a festival Afroman, Yola Araújo, Eddy Tussa, more than 20 speeches of President José of sports gymnastics; the production Heavy C, Titica, Gabriel Tchiema, Eduardo dos Santos. of a strip cartoon and animation Kueno Aionda, Euclides da Lomba, The season closed with a homage about the history of Angola; a trip Kyaku Kyadaff, Big Nelo, Kalibrados to the first president of Angola, for the elderly to the Dr António and the group Zona 5. Agostinho Neto, with the Catarcis Agostinho Neto Memorial and to Os Tunezas, also marked Teatro group making a brilliant the Armed Forces Museum; a talent their presence, offering a perfect presentation of the play Neto President, show Olympiad in Mathematics, combination of humour and music. in which 30 children, aged 7-14 Physics and Chemistry; a junior The roadshow was a great success and took part. The public reaction was national football tournament with attracted over 30,000 spectators. unanimous: judging by the number of teams from Angola, Brazil, Portugal Luanda also had a leading role in groups involved and venues used and and Mozambique; a CD recording of celebrations and was the capital of by the huge presence of actors among music and voices from the past and a theatre for 25 days, putting on 28 plays the audience, this was the best theatre literary anthology.

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Sonangol wishes a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to all its employees, partners, customers, suppliers and friends