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Revitalising Oilfields Luanda's Arts Festival SONANGOL UNIVERSO UISSUE 49 | APRILn 2016 iverso www.universo-magazine.com 40 Years of Success UPSTREAM CULTURE SOCIAL ACTION ISSUE 49 – REVITALISING LUANDA’S CHEVRON’S APRIL 2016 OILFIELDS ARTS FESTIVAL CSR EXPERIENCE Board president Francisco de Lemos José Maria at the anniversary event CONTENTS Universo is the international magazine of Sonangol President Francisco de Lemos José Maria Endiama Executive administrators: 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 PUMPING IS UP Sonangol Department for Communication & Image Director Angola output reaches 1.78 million bopd José Quarenta Mateus Cristóvão Benza SONANGOL: Shutterstock Corporate Communications Assistants Nadiejda Santos, Paula Almeida, FOUR DYNAMIC DECADES Hélder Sirgado, Kimesso Kissoka 12 3 SONANGOL RETROSPECTIVE Publisher: Sheila O’Callaghan he fortunes of Angola and Sonangol have been intimately Looking back on four decades of success 12 Editor: John Kolodziejski entwined over the past 40 years. Since its foundation on Managing Editor: Mauro Perillo February 25, 1976, the company has been the mainstay of T Shutterstock Art Director: Tony Hill the country’s economy. The oil industry that Sonangol leads so 22 3 WEATHERFORD WATCHING Sub Editor: Brian MacReamoinn dynamically has accounted for more than 90 per cent of export Profile of a leading oil services company Proofreading: Gail Nelson-Bonebrake earnings during the past four decades. Circulation & Production Manager: Matthew Alexander In the words of board president Francisco de Lemos José Maria, Production Assistant: Sebnem Brown the founding of the company marked the beginning of the battle for Project Consultant: Nathalie MacCarthy Angola’s economic independence. 28 3 IN SEARCH OF FOREIGN FIELDS Group President: John Charles Gasser 22 The income that oil sales brought into government coffers Sonangol Hidrocarbonetos Internacional’s (SHI) aims provided the means for the newly-independent nation to maintain Chevron and objectives its hard-won status and ultimately to achieve peace in April 2002. Universo is produced by Impact Media Custom Publishing. Since then Angola has witnessed a massive expansion in The views expressed in the publication are not necessarily development as Sonangol has accelerated its oil output, benefiting those of Sonangol or the publishers. Reproduction in whole 34 3 CHEVRON CARES: CSR IN ANGOLA or in part without prior permission is prohibited. from high crude oil prices on the global market. This has transformed the lives of many Angolans, who now have greater Chevron’s shining example This magazine is distributed to a closed circulation. access to healthcare, housing, schools, energy and water supplies, To receive a free copy: 34 [email protected] as well as rebuilt highways, and improved rail and air links. Circulation: 15,000 A successful oil industry, under the guiding hand of Sonangol, 40 3 REVITALISING ANGOLA’S MATURE FIELDS Davenport House, 16 Pepper Street, London E14 9RP laid the firm foundations of the country’s economy. The legacy of the Eco Tur Angola United Kingdom company’s first four dynamic decades is a healthier, better educated Strategies for enhancing production Tel + 44 20 7510 9595 | Fax +44 20 7510 9596 [email protected] Angola, enjoying all the benefits of new and improved infrastructure. www.universo-magazine.com www.sonangol.co.ao [email protected] John Kolodziejski 44 3 ANGOLAN ART COMES HOME Front cover: José Quarenta 44 Editor Luanda’s Triennial triumph Universo is printed on FSC approved stock. 2 SONANGOL UNIVERSO SONANGOL UNIVERSO 3 NEWS BRIEFING NEWS BRIEFING WELL DONE ENI Laying flexible cables PRESIDENT OPENS LUANDA INTERCHANGE Adding renewable energy 3 President José Eduardo dos Santos inaugurated a totally rebuilt road 3 Italian major Eni started oil production in Angola’s Mpungi field on interchange in central Luanda as part of the February 4, Day of the Armed Struggle, time and within budget in January. The West Hub project in deepwater celebrations. The Largo do Ambiente road complex project, whose development block 15/06 in Angola is located 130km west of Soyo and is expected has benefited from the support of Sonangol, is located near the city’s waterfront to add around 100,000 barrels per day in the first quarter of this year. and consists of two large roundabouts that have long been a traffic bottleneck. The The West Hub consists of the Sangos, Cinguvu, Mpungi, Mpungi rebuilt roundabouts now boast pedestrian areas and a large square. There is also North, Ochigufu and Vandumbu fields at depths of between 1,000 underground parking for 525 vehicles. Parked cars in the area had previously been and 1,500 metres. The wells are connected to the N’Goma floating a source of congestion. The project, close to the historic Nazareth church, is part of storage production and offloading (FPSO) ship. Luanda’s ongoing renovation and is intended to provide local residents and visitors Eni said it would continue to carry out exploration activities with an improved urban environment, while accelerating traffic flows. in block 15/06, and would link any new discoveries to existing production facilities. Shutterstock The group is the block’s operator with a 36.84 per cent stake, and The country’s biggest diamond the remaining partners are Sonangol P&P (36.84 per cent) and SSI Fifteen Ltd (26.32 per cent). Lomaum dam Eni Angola Sparkling discovery Endiama powers up again 3 The Lomaum power dam at Cubal Sonangol cleans up electronic waste in Benguela province reopened on February 4 after standing still for over 3 Sonangol led a campaign to recycle electronic waste 30 years. The 50MW dam, built in 1959, to mark Environment Day on January 31. In partnership will improve power supplies to over Emanuel Jardim with the Ministry of the Environment and private company 92,000 people in Benguela, Lobito, NetService, Sonangol managed to collect 500 tonnes of Catumbela and Baía Farta. electronic materials over a period of six days. Currently Lomaum, which had restarted Angola’s electronic waste is exported. commercial production on an Daniela Matos, Sonangol’s director for quality, safety experimental basis in June 2015, is and the environment, said the initiative was part of the located on the River Catumbela, about company’s contribution to a healthier environment. 200km southeast of Benguela. The The campaign involved Sonangol personnel collecting 3 Australian firm Lucapa Diamond Company has unearthed a 404.2-carat dam had been inoperative since 1984. waste from the Samba and Ilha areas of Luanda. diamond, measuring more than 7cm in length and valued at some $14 million, Recovery and modernisation were the largest ever found in Angola. carried out in 2009 by the Guangxi The precious stone was recovered from Block 8 at Lulo, which has Hydroelectric Construction Bureau Interior minister Ângelo Tavares (centre) and already produced more than 60 such large gems since mining began in the Angola, in partnership with Kanazuro environment minister Maria de Fátima Jardim area in August 2015, the company said. The previous largest discovery was Electric, who will now operate the dam with Daniela Matos, Sonangol’s director of DQSE (extreme right) approximately half the size of the current one at 217.4 carats. Lulo, in northeast for 20 years. The project also utilised Angola, forms part of Catoca, the world’s fourth biggest diamond mine. 145km of transmission lines. Angola’s national diamond company, Endiama, said it was “a significant day Shutterstock for our country, for our industry and for the Lulo project.” Endiama sold diamonds worth $1.1 billion in 2015, and its board chairman, António Sumbula, predicted output should double in the next three years from its current level of 8.8 million carats per year. 4 SONANGOL UNIVERSO SONANGOL UNIVERSO 5 Shutterstock Emanuel Jardim NEWS BRIEFING NEWS BRIEFING Angolan independence feted in words and music José Quarenta New school for Sambizanga Sonangol funds new Luanda school Sonangol and Eni sign deal 3 Sonangol E.P. and its Block 17 partners, led by Total E&P Angola, opened 3 A literary anthology entitled Angola 40 Years: 40 Tales, 40 a new secondary school in Luanda’s Sambizanga district in February. The Authors and a music compilation CD Angola 40 Years, produced and Angola’s first school was named Kidielela Kwa Muenho. 3 The strategic and operational partnership sponsored by Sonangol, were released on February 18 in a ceremony The new buildings were built from Block 17 funds and consist of between Sonangol and Eni was enhanced at the Angolan Writers Union (UEA), in Luanda. steel mill 13 classrooms, a refectory, a laboratory, a library, swimming pools and in December with the signing of a The UEA’s general secretary, António Carmo Neto, presided over sports grounds. co-operation agreement to develop the the ceremony. 3 Economy minister Abraão Gourgel inaugurated Witnesses at the ceremony included Sonangol E.P. executive Angolan oil industry by the Chairman of The 380-page book and the CD pay homage to the 40th the country’s first ever steel complex, Aceria de administrators Anabela Fonseca and Ana Joaquina Costa, and the director the Sonangol Board, Francisco de Lemos anniversary of Angola’s independence. The volume includes stories Angola, on January 16. The 500,000 tonnes/year general of Total E&P, Jacques Azibert. Also in attendance was Sonangol’s José Maria, and by his Eni counterpart, by distinguished Angolan authors such as Adriano Mixinge, Albino plant at Barra do Dande, Bengo province, will director for corporate social responsibility, Arlete Borges.
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