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SONANGOL UNIVERSO ISSUE 39 – SEPTEMBER 2013 Shutterstock Contents Universo is the international magazine of Sonangol 4 ANGOLA NEWS BRIEFING Board Members Shutterstock Francisco de Lemos José Maria (President), Prince Harry visits Angola; M’banza Kongo heritage status change; Anabela Soares de Brito da Fonseca, $1.4 billion investment boost; Hub role for Angola; Angola and Ana Joaquina Van-Dúnem Alves da Costa, Fernandes Gaspar Bernardo Mateus, United States mark 20 years of diplomatic ties; Angola basketball Fernando Joaquim Roberto, player in Hall of Fame; Bank sees 8.2% growth this year Mateus Sebastião Francisco Neto, Paulino Fernando Carvalho Jerónimo Sonangol Department for 6 ANGOLA-CHINA: MUTUAL BENEFITS Communication & Image Director Angola and China celebrate 30 years of diplomatic relations this year. Mateus Cristovão Benza 6 We survey the many facets and future of this dynamic collaboration Corporate Communications Assistants Nadiejda Santos, Lúcio Santos, Sarissari Diniz, José Mota, Beatriz Silva, Paula Almeida, Sandra Teixeira, Marta Sousa, 16 VENICE BIENNALE: A ROARING SUCCESS Hélder Sirgado, Kimesso Kissoka Angola walks away with the prizes at its début appearance at the Beyond Entropy Press Office Publisher: Sheila O’Callaghan Venice arts festival Editor: John Kolodziejski Managing Editor: Mauro Perillo 24 ROUTES TO RICHES: THE LOBITO CORRIDOR Art Director: Tony Hill Sub Editor: Ron Gribble Transport corridors are forming across Africa to integrate and develop Proofreading: Gail Nelson-Bonebrake Angola’s Chinese economies. The one originating at Lobito is on the cusp of completion 16 Production Manager: Matthew Alexander  Production Assistant: Sebnem Brown 32 MAKING ANGOLA GREENER Project Consultant: Nathalie MacCarthy signs of success Peter Moeller Group President: John Charles Gasser Africa’s sun is an asset now being seriously considered as a source of energy. We look at some projects leading the way Universo is produced by Impact Media Custom Publishing. The views expressed hina’s huge contribution to Angola’s development over the past  in the publication are not necessarily ten years is evident. In this third decade since diplomatic relations FINALS PREPARATION: HOCKEY ANGOLA those of Sonangol or the publishers. 38 Reproduction in whole or in part were established, a drive along any of Luanda’s major roads and 24 without prior permission is prohibited. into the countryside beyond reveals China’s industrious presence. Angola prepares to host Africa’s first roller hockey world cup This magazine is distributed to a closed C Ideogram signposts and huge convoys of construction trucks with circulation. To receive a free copy: [email protected] Chinese drivers are common sights. Downtown city skyscrapers, numerous 40 SONANGOL NEWS BRIEFING Abengoa Solar Circulation: 15,000 suburban residential blocks and leafy condominiums, highways, bridges and Fairs fair; Sonangol Schlesser win again; Waste management; Sonatrach railways are just some of the many fruits of Chinese-Angolan collaboration.  cooperation; PSVM oil peaks early; PetroVietnam talks; Angola LNG; However, all these advancements are likely to be just the prelude to the Sonangol accounts approved; Total Angola to launch CLOV Davenport House progress and prosperity to come. The infrastructure now in place is a scene- 16 Pepper Street setter for the development of Angola’s rich agricultural and mining resources 32 London E14 9RP NEW DATA CENTRE FOR MSTELCOM United Kingdom and, via the Lobito Corridor, those of its African neighbours too. 43 

Tel + 44 20 7510 9595 As João Garcia Bires, Angola’s ambassador to China, points out (on The data centre will meet the needs of the growing domestic market  Shutterstock Fax +44 20 7510 9596 [email protected] page 14) the results of China’s contribution to Angola are plain to see. The for date centre services www.universo-magazine.com prospects of much more to come are on the way. Watch this space. www.sonangol.co.ao [email protected] 44 REACHING OUT TO ASIA FROM SONANGOL’S John Kolodziejski Cover: Getty Images SINGAPORE OFFICE Editor As Sonangol’s Asian subsidiary celebrates its 10th birthday, we take a look at the work of the Singapore-based office 44

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Prince Harry visits Angola M’banza Kongo Bank sees ■ Britain’s Prince Harry heritage status visited Angola to see 8.2% growth mine clearance work change in August. He was in the country to mark the ■ The Angolan government designated M’banza this year 25th anniversary appeal Kongo a National Cultural Heritage city in June. for the work of the The change in the Zaire province’s capital status HALO Trust charity, an is a means of preparing the way to have it listed ■ The African Development Bank organisation supported as a UNESCO World Heritage site. (AfDB) predicts Angola’s economic by his late mother Diana, M’banza Kongo aims to recover the greatness growth will reach 8.2% in 2013. The Princess of Wales. The of its past by rebuilding and modernising its AfDB says the oil and gas sector and a prince toured the once infrastructures. Founded some time before public-spending programme designed densely-mined town the arrival of the Portuguese, the city was the to encourage economic diversification of Cuito Cuanavale, a capital of the dynasty ruling at that time (1483). are driving the expansion. However, scene of heavy fighting Temporarily abandoned during civil wars in the the AfDB sees Angola’s GDP declining during Angola’s 1975- 17th century, the site lies close to Angola’s to 7.8% in 2014. 2002 civil war. border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Getty Images Meanwhile, the structure of Angola’s GDP is changing. Kiala Gabriel, HALO Trust Angola basketball player in Hall of Fame Secretary of State for Industry, says manufacturing contributed 6.5% to ■ Former Angolan basketball player Jean Jacques da Conceição has been nominated Angolan GDP in 2012 but anticipate Hub role for Angola for the International Basketball Federation’s Hall of Fame. that this share will rise to 10% by $1.4 billion He said the honour was a victory for the Angolan people since it represented the 2017. Despite this good news, Gabriel ■ Angola is aiming to become an internet and technology hub for Africa within recognition of everything the country had done for the development of the sport. “I am believes there is still much to be done two years, says Angola Cables’ sales and marketing director Artur Mendes. happy for the recognition, but the country should be even happier because it is our flag before industrial production meets investment boost With this in mind, Mendes says the country has two projects underway – a that is going to be hoisted in the spot,” he said. the needs of the domestic market in fibre optic link connecting Angola and South America, and from there to Besides Angola, Conceição played for Benfica and Portugal Telecom in Portugal, several areas of consumption. ■ Angola’s National Agency for Private Investment North America. France’s Limoges and Spain’s Unicaja Málaga. (ANIP) finalised 24 investment contracts with local Fibre optic cable already connects Europe and and South Africa, but Angola’s and foreign companies worth $1.4 billion in July. intention is to be independent of other African countries for telecommunications, ANIP’s chief executive Maria Luísa Abrantes internet as well as voice and video data. Mendes believes the country must signed the agreements, mostly linked to the have its own cable links to all other continents to act as a hub for Africa. Angola in numbers industrial sector, services and civil engineering, FIGURED OUT with companies from countries including Portugal, Sierra Leone, Holland, Kenya, China, India, Denmark and the Virgin Islands. Angola and United States mark $1.4 billion 160,000m3 20 years of diplomatic ties investment contracts in Angola signed in July of Angolan liquefied natural gas in first export cargo

Shutterstock ■ Angola and the United States celebrated the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations in May. Georges Chikoti, Angolan Minister for Foreign Affairs, highlighted the need for new impetus toward trade $14.5 billion agreements between the two countries so that the world’s greatest economic power can contribute more to boosting Angola’s multifaceted development. Chinese credit lines granted to Angola The two countries have been strengthening relations since the 1990s, especially in oil exploration and trade, as well as in education. In the health sector in particular, the United States has invested thousands of dollars to 1,343km 2.5 billion combat malaria and HIV-Aids. Benguela Railway nears completion potential Sonangol oil users in China and India

4 SONANGOL UNIVERSO SEPTEMBER 2013 5 INTERNATIONAL Beijing at night

Responsible for a large range of projects that have set ANGOLA-CHINA: Angola on the road to greater prosperity, China is Angola’s largest oil customer and its most important business partner. MUTUAL Universo looks at this fruitful relationship BENEFITS

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Chinese-built housing in Luanda

hina needs natural resources over long periods kick-started Angola’s vast Angola’s largest The Chinese have also delivered and Angola wants development, programme of reconstruction, allowing the trading partner turnkey projects in water supply and said President José Eduardo dos country to overcome the effects of war. Business between the two countries rose irrigation, electrification, bridge building, Santos during a visit by China’s China has lent Angola more than from $1 billion in 2002 to $25.3 billion in hospitals, schools and colleges. The China Cthen Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to Luanda $14.5 billion to fund large infrastructure 2008 when China became Angola’s largest Railway Company (CR-20) has completely in 2006. It’s a recipe for a perfect partnership. projects, says former Chinese ambassador trading partner, overtaking the United revamped Angola’s three east-west China and Angola celebrated 30 years to Angola Zhang Bolun. Funds are released States which had been Angola’s main oil railways, supplying locomotives and rolling of diplomatic relations this year, but on a project-by-project basis. The main customer for practically the entire post- stock and building attractive new stations. only in the last decade have economic credit channels are Export-Import Bank of independence period. Angola became one Chinese companies are active in other relations truly bloomed. Speaking at an China, the China Development Bank and of China’s biggest trading partners in Africa areas in Angola, especially where speedy anniversary event, Angola’s ambassador the China International Fund. in 2006, and these exchanges were worth delivery to tight deadlines is essential. For to China, João Garcia Bires, said this Ambassador Bires says the results of over $33 billion by 2012. the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations football co-operation has allowed Angola to Angola’s close ties with China “are plain “Co-operation has reached its best tournament, Chinese firms built three become a more modern country. to see”. Indeed the most visible signs of point because there is mutual political major sports stadia: the nest-like $226 Trade drives the China-Angola China’s presence is in Angola’s urban trust, with notable economic and trade million Camama stadium in Luanda relationship. Angola is China’s largest landscape where its companies have built development,” said Gao Kexiang, the (Shanghai Urban Construction Group); individual supplier of oil, and, in exchange, skyscrapers, huge suburbs and even a full- current Chinese ambassador to Angola, the $116 million Ombaka Stadium in the Far Eastern giant pays for part of the oil by sized town at Kilamba Kiaxi. However, after a meeting with Angola’s Vice- Benguela (Sinohydro); and another $116 Angola-China trade US$ billions financing and undertaking some of Angola’s China’s largest impact is on Angola’s President Manuel Domingos Vicente in million stadium in Chiazi, Cabinda (China infrastructure development projects. infrastructure, and this is where it is November 2012. The ambassador added Jiangsu International). Exports: Imports: Total According to Bires, Chinese loans proving to be the driving force behind the that both sides were assessing other great offered without conditions and repayable country’s economic rebirth. business opportunities. CITIC and housing Angola to China China to Angola One of China’s most visible companies China’s role in Angola operating in Angola is CITIC. Its high 2003 2.206 0.146 2.352 According to the Chinese embassy profile stems from its involvement in the 2004 4.717 0.194 4.911 in Angola, there are currently more residential building sector. The company than 450 Chinese state and private was responsible for the giant Kilamba Kiaxi 2005 6.582 0.373 6.955 companies involved in the construction or housing development in Luanda’s suburbs. reconstruction of housing, ports, railways, Kilamba Kiaxi has 710 blocks, contains 2006 10.933 0.894 11.827 roads and other facilities. These include some 20,000 flats and will eventually house arge Chinese multinational companies 485,000 people. It is self-contained and has 2007 12.889 1.231 14.120 such as the China International Trust its own shops, schools and health centres. and Investment Corporation (CITIC), the The first stage of the project was 2008 22.382 2.930 25.311 China Railway Corporation and Huawei. completed in just over three years and, China has played a major part in at $3.5 billion, was the biggest-budget 2009 14.676 2.386 17.062 rebuilding and expanding Angola’s Chinese project overseas. road network. Chinese workers can be CITIC is also participating in a project 2010 20.820 1.418 22.238 seen throughout the country showing a to build 100,000 homes in ten provinces, remarkable work ethic, undaunted by its chief executive Chang Zhenming said 2011 24.300 1.541 25.841 searing temperatures. Angola has been in April 2013. Half the dwellings have completing the reconstruction of 13,000km already received finance. The new homes 2012 29.400 4.000 33.400 of highways in the period 2008-2013. will be in the municipalities of Cabinda, Sources: China’s Ministry of Trade and from 2010 Banco Nacional de Angola Mark Clydesdale BZO Key data Camama Stadium, Luanda, built by Shanghai Urban Construction Group

Population GDP Land area Oil output

Angola 18.5 million $118.7 billion (2012) 1.3 million km2 1.75 mbd

China 1.35 billion $8.23 trillion (2012) 9.6 million km2 4.2 mbd

8 SONANGOL UNIVERSO SEPTEMBER 2013 9 Brazuk INTERNATIONAL Getty Images INTERNATIONAL The raw power of the world's biggest dam: China's Three Gorges

In 2006 China's then Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visits President José Eduardo dos Santos in Luanda

“Co-operation has reached its best point because there is mutual political trust”

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Three Gorges locks: scaling the 185-metre dam

Soyo, M’banza Kongo, Benguela, Namibe, length and reached the border with the the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze Ombaka Stadium. It has also refurbished The contract includes cultivating 5,000 in an area of 1,500 hectares of irrigated Lubango, Luanda, Zango and Belas, as well Democratic Republic of Congo on August River, with an output of 22,500MW, more airports at Luena and Saurimo, while at hectares with soya and maize and also land in two harvests a year. CAMCE as in Kuando Kubango, Lunda Norte and 13 this year. The entire project is expected than 90 times the size of Capanda, Angola’s Kuito in Bié province the company built supplying processing plants at Camacupa, expects the project will produce 15,000 Lunda Sul. to cost more than $1.5 billion. The CFB and largest dam. a water supply system for the 400,000 Bié province, at a cost of $88 million. tons of rice over 60 months, using water CFM railways are almost ready to again Sinohydro’s dam work in Angola, habitants. The Chinese construction giant Elsewhere, another $79 million will from the Longa River. China Railway 20 Bureau transport copper, iron ore and manganese however, is on a much smaller scale and is has also built hospitals at Lubango (590 be spent on farming 2,960 hectares. Group Corporation (CR-20) deposits, a traffic not seen since the 1970s. designed for irrigation rather than power beds), Benguela and Huambo (410 beds CAMCE will provide irrigation works, farm China Road and Bridge China’s CR-20 completed the 424km Angola has plans to build new branch lines generation. The company worked on a each) and Namibe (79). machines, storage and farm technology Corporation (CRBC) Luanda-Malange Railway (CFL) in 2010 and and connecting lines between the three number of China Exim Bank projects, training. The company is also developing CRBC was the first Chinese corporation in has since then largely completed the 907km main rail routes, and China is likely to be a developing and rebuilding farming areas CAMCE a $76 million rice farm project at Cuito infrastructure rebuilding to enter Angola Namibe-Menongue Railway (CFM) in the strong contender for new contracts. at Caxito, Gangelas, Luena and Wako- The China CAMC Engineering Co. Ltd Cuanavale in Kuando Kubango province. back in 2004. CRBC has many large-scale south of the country. China contributed Kungo from 2007 to 2010, and contributes (CAMCE), a state-owned enterprise in The Longa Agro-Industrial Farm project projects under its belt such as the $29 million, $300 million in 2006 to begin refurbishment Sinohydro to irrigating around 32,000 hectares. Angola since 2004, signed a $168 million was agreed in 2010 and is financed by the 808-metre River Cunene Bridge and the $47 of the Benguela Railway (CFB). The importance of China’s Sinohydro in Sinohydro, like several large Chinese agricultural co-operation contract with China Development Bank. million contract for 108km of Highway 211 This key railway is currently global engineering circles is the result of its companies, has many arrows in its quiver, Angola’s Ministry of Agriculture, Rural The experimental phase of the project between Ondjiva and Xangongo. Both were operational along most of its 1,343km work at home on the world’s largest dam, and in Benguela it built the 35,000-capacity Development and Fisheries in April 2013. will assess the capacity for rice production completed in June 2009.

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China has the world's longest high-speed rail network Shutterstock Malocha

One of Huawei Global Headquarters Luanda’s new city satellite: Kilamba Kiaxi In May 2011, CRBC’s $3 million, 44- technology and other equipment. Unitel many developed countries. Movicel has metre bridge over the Mponzo River on is a leading mobile operator and has 3 million subscribers. Highway 210 between Luanda and Mbanza the largest and most advanced mobile Congo was inaugurated. CRBC has also broadband network in Angola. China International Fund built roads and bridges in Uíge (117km of Limited (CIF) Highway 220) and other provinces. ZTE CIF is building Luanda’s new international Another Chinese telecommunications airport, located 30km from the city. China Huawei major, ZTE Corporation (formerly is financing the project at a cost of $450 China’s giant Huawei corporation, Zhongxing Semiconductor Co. Ltd million. The airport will have two double the world’s largest maker of and Zhongxing Telecommunications runways and the capacity to handle over telecommunications equipment, is Equipment), is partnering Angola’s 13 million passengers and 35,000 tonnes enjoying a successful partnership with Movicel in a $1 billion upgrade of its of freight. Angolan mobile phone operator Unitel. system. It has already introduced a 4G CIF has also rebuilt the 498km coastal It supplies Unitel’s 8 million clients with mobile phone network that gives Angola highway from Luanda to Lobito and state-of-the-art fibre optic transport a faster communications system than 1,107km of the road between Malange, Saurimo, Dundo and Luena in eastern Angola. The company has built three major logistics centres in Luanda, Luanda's new Chinese-built airport will Benguela and Namibe. It also has a fleet of 25 ships to carry construction materials to Angola. handle 13 million passengers a year CIF built its own iconic head office in Luanda, which for many years has given Luandans an impressive LED light show. The company is also developing Angola’s national administration complex Major Chinese companies active in Angola in Luanda, which includes a presidential palace, parliament, a supreme court, CITIC Sinohydro CIF CR20 CMEC ministries and museums. The bright red parliament building with its distinctive CAMCE Jiangsu International CRBC COVEC Huawei dome reminiscent of Washington’s Capitol Building is now largely complete and has ZTE CWE Sinosteel Sinopec become a new landmark for Luanda. p

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Interview with João Garcia Chinese inventions Bires, Angola’s ambassador to China China is particularly proud of four inventions: Much basic infrastructure in Angola has been built thanks to Chinese co-operation: highways, railways, Compass (221-206 BC) water supply systems, airports and homes. What are the future areas of bilateral co-operation? Modern paper (105 AD) The new areas of co-operation could be in farming, Movable type (960-1279 AD) animal rearing, mineral exploration and ornamental Gunpowder (1044 AD) stones. In agriculture we would like to develop small and medium-sized processing industries, taking into account that in our soil produce of excellent quality grows. As well as supplying the domestic market and improving our people’s diet, this is also exportable. China has much experience in rearing, breeding and improving animal stock. So, equally, it is in our interest to learn this subject and aquaculture [the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants]. Mining and ornamental stones are other areas that we can jointly exploit. The international market knows these products very well and values them. It is up to both parties to prioritise the areas and simultaneously train specialists that may in a rational way exploit farming and mineral resources.

Education and training are going to be necessary Macaulink for the maintenance of new infrastructures. What is the role of China in this area? The People’s Republic of China has been one of the “The help China has given our country partners in the training of specialists with a university education for my country. Annually, apart from has served as a starting point, so that receiving scholarship students through INABE [The National Institute for Scholarships], a body linked to the Angola might occupy a leading Ministry of Higher Education, it also accepts Angolan students that compete for grants given exclusively by the Chinese government. position in various areas” Thus, little by little, the specialists of tomorrow will be able to handle the equipment coming from China and other countries, and at the same time be faithful spreaders of the help has marked and opened stages of development and that is why Chinese language in Angola. It is also our certainty that from among China is today our strategic partner. them will come those who will have a role in developing technical and Our vision of increasingly diversifying the areas of co-operation, scientific products with the label Made in Angola. seeking other facilities and training increasing numbers of specialists, be it in Angola or in China, is a continuous task. A decade ago it was difficult to imagine the great changes in Another aspect is that the country may grow and ensure its Angola, but thanks to Chinese co-operation the country is seen (economic) independence. Today, above all, it is necessary to in a different light. What does the ambassador expect from consolidate the macro and micro economy. The rhythm and the this collaboration and what impact will it have on the Angolan index of our growth shows signs that we are on the right path and economy over the next five to ten years? that is why, within five or ten years, we believe we will have a modern The help China has given our country has served as a starting point, Angola. This struggle isn’t easy; we are counting on collaboration so that Angola might occupy a leading position in various areas. This with China.

Source: Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding

14 SONANGOL UNIVERSO SEPTEMBER 2013 15 Shutterstock CULTURE VENICE BIENNALE: A ROARING SUCCESS Defying the odds, first-time participant Angola won the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the 55th edition of the Venice Biennale

By Lula Ahrens

16 SONANGOL UNIVERSO SEPTEMBER 2013 17 Beyond Entropy Press Office Edson Chagas with the coveted CULTURE CULTURE Golden Lion main prize

he press cameras flashed on and Romania were the favourites. “It was Encyclopaedic Luanda Angolan photographer Edson a complete surprise. We were competing The Angolan collection, spread over two Chagas at the Venice Biennale, against 88 countries, countries with a floors in the Cini Palace, forms part of the world’s most prestigious art tradition at the biennale, with big budgets Massimiliano Gioni’s flagship exhibition Tevent, as Angola carried off the Golden and big artists,” curator and architect The Encyclopaedic Palace. Lion main prize on its début appearance. Paula Nascimento told Universo. “This Curators Nascimento and Pansera The exhibition Luanda, Encyclopaedic clearly is Angola’s greatest artistic purposefully chose the palace, which is City (June 1 – November 24) features Found achievement to date.” filled to the brim with early Renaissance Not Taken, Chagas’ series of photographic Nascimento, director of international art and furniture, to exhibit Chagas’ work posters of the Angolan capital. His images architectural agency Beyond Entropy, in the form of 23 mass-produced posters. contrast sharply with the lavish decorations curated the Angolan pavilion together The posters contain uncaptioned and furniture in the background of the with the agency’s founder Stefano Rabolli photographs of doorways and discarded 16th-century Cini Palace, which houses the Pansera and artist Jorge Gumbe. “The objects in Luanda. Central to Chagas’ work Angolan pavilion exhibition. biennale has been very good for Angolan is a reflection on how images are used Angola’s Golden Lion award underlines artists. It increases sales of their works to shape the way people experience the the country’s growing prestige in and their chances of holding exhibitions Angolan capital, his home city. international artistic circles. A five-woman abroad,” says Gumbe. “The initial idea was to exhibit several jury which included Africa’s Bisi Silva, Nascimento and Pansera also Angolan photographers’ work, but when curator and founding director of the Centre curated the Angola Pavilion at the 13th we saw Edson Chagas’ Found Not Taken for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria, International Architecture Exhibition, series we decided to work exclusively with judged the competition. Venice Biennale in 2012. him,” says curator Nascimento. “His work Angola became the first sub-Saharan Angola’s Ministry of Culture reveals the urban complexity of Luanda African nation to win the Golden Lion commissioned and supported the country’s without clichés.” for best country participation, the contribution to this year’s biennale while In Found Not Taken, Chagas relocates biennale’s highest achievable honour, Angolan banks BAI and Banco Privado thrown-away, broken and abandoned despite rumours the previous week that Atlântico and insurance company ENSA objects within the urban context. Each France, Germany, Denmark, Lithuania sponsored the pavilion. object transforms the context where it is

What is the Venice Biennale?

Around 150 artists representing 88 countries are taking the viewer who seeks in art the emotion of dialoguing part in the Venice Biennale, which has been held every with the work... a desire to go beyond. This is what is two years for the past 118 years. expected from art.” Since its foundation in 1895, it has been the Edson Chagas’ work certainly creates an intense arena where the elite of the art world have wrestled dialogue between viewer and work of art. “While for international attention and recognition. Some growing up in Luanda, everything was reutilised, people describe it as ‘the Art Olympics’ as there is and it was special to me to see how the habits of such a strong element of competition. As in other consumerism were changing,” he says. “I would find international exhibitions, each country sets up its own old sofas, washing machines and chairs; those were national pavilion. the most common, but other objects too. It was always The 55th biennale’s inspirational theme is the about the object and how it interacted with the space Encyclopaedic Palace. This was the utopian dream around it and also what I felt when I looked at it. It was a of Italy’s Marino Auriti for a 136-storey building in learning process of the city, its people and its rhythm.” Washington that would house the world’s entire Biennale artistic director Massimiliano Gioni says knowledge. Auriti tried to patent the idea in 1955. artists, writers, scientists and self-proclaimed prophets The 2013 biennale aims to replicate this accumulation have tried, often in vain, to fashion an image of the world of knowledge in the artistic world and, according that captures its infinite variety and richness. “Today, to biennale president Paolo Baratta, focus “on the as we grapple with a constant flood of information, intensity of the relationship between the work of art and such attempts seem even more necessary.”

18 SONANGOL UNIVERSO SEPTEMBER 2013 19 Getty Images View of Venice during the Biennale CULTURE CULTURE Italian press reaction located, while at the same time acquiring a new meaning for itself. “There is a beautiful ambiguity in Chagas’ work. On the one hand, it is systematic and precise. On the other, it is poetic and encyclopaedic,” says Nascimento. “Our agency, Beyond Entropy Africa, has been researching Luanda’s morphing nature as a paradigm of urban transformations in sub- Saharan Africa. We wanted to continue this urban analysis by showing that, through its diversity of forms and energies, Luanda is an open encyclopaedia.” Nascimento loves the subtlety of Chagas’ photographs. “There are no people in his pictures. The feeling of absence is very strong, yet the photos retain the soul of Luanda,” she says.

Angola’s win at the Venice Biennale also won plaudits from the Unfolding into the city local press. Naples newspaper Il Mattino titled its piece on the The curators chose to exhibit Chagas’ bienniale “The lion roars in Angola” and said the prize verdict photographs as a series of posters to enable was broadly backed by the world art community and greeted the audience to interact with his work in with a standing ovation at the award ceremony. much the same way as he does with the “A pavilion like this would overwhelm anyone,” raved photographed objects. Visitors are allowed Getty Images L’Espresso newspaper, adding that the excellence of Angola’s to take home copies of the posters. Visitors admire the Swarovski installation Perspective, work made it hard for other pavilions to compete. “That way, the exhibition leaves the a project in collaboration with British Architect John Pawson La Repubblica, the second-largest Italian paper in confined space of the palace and unfolds circulation, described Luanda, Encyclopaedic City as “an into the city,” says Nascimento. “One impressive installation”. visitor, for example, took a series of posters Italy’s largest financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore said that Angola to decorate his shop window in Milan. had won because its artist and curator skills reflected the “The audience was visibly impressed Babylon by Joana Vasconcelos is displayed at the Biennale’s parallel glass-based art event, Glasstress 2013 “irreconcilable complexity of the concept of location”. with Chagas’ images. We shared a space with Getty Images Corriere della Sera, Italy’s biggest-selling paper, also some rarely seen works from Renaissance described the Angolan victory in a positive light. masters including Jacopo Pontormo, Piero Green leap forward: Li Wei of China’s pavilion on the Venice waterfront della Francesca and Sandro Botticelli. Golden Lion prize for the best pavilion awarded to Angola Despite that, the visitors’ main focus was on the photographs,” she says. Chagas not alone Although Edson Chagas is the star of the Angolan pavilion at the current edition of the Venice Biennale, it also features other Angolan artists. Upstairs from the rooms containing Chagas’ posters, visitors can see a display of wood sculptures and paintings created in Angola since 1991. A polished wood sculpture abstractly portraying a seated figure by João Domingos Mabuaka Mayembe, entitled Vuata N’Kampa ku Makaya Katekela, has received special attention from visitors.

20 SONANGOL UNIVERSO SEPTEMBER 2013 21 Getty Images Getty Images Corbis Images An exhibition visitor helps herself to a Chagas picture CULTURE CULTURE

“This prize shows that we are on the right path. It is also a prize that will add value to the work done by the team that installed the Angola pavilion. We are worthy of this international recognition.” According to the minister, the prize will encourage the Angolan government to work together with the artistic class to do even better in coming editions of the Venice Biennale. “This prize will force us to redouble our efforts, as in the next edition eyes will be turned to see what Angola will present.” Rosa Cruz e Silva said that the prize will also stimulate Angola's art-sponsoring partners sponsoring partners to reinforce their assistance in cultural activities,

Beyond Entropy Press Office helping the Angolan government to spread the name of the country across borders through the arts. ‘The biennale has been very good for Angolan African lion pride artists. It increases sales of their works and Many African countries also perceive Angola’s victory at the Venice Biennale as global cultural recognition for their their chances of holding exhibitions abroad’ continent as a whole. Nascimento

experienced that first-hand. “All the other Edson Chagas – Jorge Gumbe, artist African countries congratulated us. They feel that this is a bit of an African award as well, and I agree,” she says. Who is Edson Chagas? This feeling was reinforced by the significant increase of African participants Edson Chagas was born in Luanda in 1977. After at the Venice Biennale compared to obtaining his degree in photo journalism at the

It won the 2006 Ensarte Grand Prize “The Golden Lion for Edson Chagas’ project the last edition, when South Africa Edson Chagas for Sculpture in Luanda. The pavilion puts the supposed distinction between the and Zimbabwe were the only African London College of Communication, he studied photo also includes paintings and sculptures by two into perspective.” countries to host national pavilions. This documentary at the University of Wales, Newport. He Francisco Van-Dúnem (Van), António Ole, year Egypt, the Ivory Coast and Kenya returned to Luanda in 2007, while still continuing his Ministering praise Edson Chagas Finesse and Marco Kabenda Teta from the joined the club alongsides Angola, raising international exhibitions. Ensa collection. Rosa Cruz e Silva, Angolan Minister of the total to six. Chagas is a globally-recognised photographer Nascimento says she hopes Angola’s Culture, who inaugurated the country’s “We are definitely at a stage where Africa victory at the biennale will generate pavilion, said her ministry was doing its is establishing its position in the global who has exhibited at many major art events more attention for the arts within Angola best to support Angolan contemporary art art circuit, without the traditional African including the Luanda Triennial 2010, SP-Arte and besides music, and that it will push and artists. stigma attached to it previously,” says the SOSO Gallery in São Paulo, Brazil. He also forward the establishment of art schools, “Despite some difficulties our artists Nascimento. “This summer, for instance, exhibited at a travelling exhibition from the National art education, a centre of contemporary experience, they have shown exceptional the works of leading contemporary African Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa; the Rheinisches arts and serious investment in high- talent,” she said after Angola received its artists are being exhibited in major galleries Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Rencontres d’Arts quality cultural projects. Golden Lion. “They make our country in London and New York. She also hopes that it will lead to proud, and deserve the world’s admiration.” “Through contemporary African art Visuels in Yaoundé, Cameroon; and the collective wider national recognition of Angolan She lauded the Angolan artists and the at international events we must shift the show No Fly Zone at the Berardo Collection Museum contemporary art. “Contemporary art in country’s pavilion team for the work they discourse on Africa from traditional issues in Lisbon in 2013. In addition, his work has been Angola is always viewed with a slight distrust have been doing in favour of culture in such as war, poverty, aid and oil towards displayed at the Landscapes exhibition at the Palazzo by those who favour traditional art,” she says. general and the plastic arts in particular. ideas and culture.” p Gallery in Brescia, Italy.

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A new bridge on the Benguela-Lobito highway at Catumbela ROUTE TO RICHES: THE LOBITO CORRIDOR Several African governments have jointly planned a set of transport corridors to speed up trade and boost their economic development. Universo looks at the prospects for the corridor originating at Lobito in Angola

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he Lobito Corridor is the most decade, stimulating greater output. Copper Mozambique, on the Indian Ocean, and is streamlined customs operations to meet Secil Lobito cement plant now being expanded strategic of the 15 corridors has risen from $1,500 a tonne in 2000 to southern Africa’s second designated major international efficiency standards. designated by the Southern African around $7,000 today. east-west corridor. Development Community (SADC) The Lobito Corridor provides a more Lobito was conceived as an export port, The Benguela Railway Tto boost regional trade and communications direct link to the sea than via eastern and with around 90 per cent of goods handled Starting at Lobito, the 1,343km CFB has in the region, says SADC deputy executive southern Africa, bringing the copper much sent overseas. However, for the past four historically been a strong unifying factor in secretary João Samuel Caholo. closer to Atlantic markets in Europe and decades Lobito has reversed this flow, and the region as it traverses an important trading SADC, an association of 15 countries, the Americas (see map on page 29). nearly all its traffic is currently inbound zone for farm and industrial products. aims to better connect their economies to serve Angola’s massive reconstruction The CFB scales Angola’s central through the integral development of road, Natural harbour efforts and the population’s food and highlands in Huambo and Bié provinces, rail, energy and telecommunications The focal point of the corridor is the natural consumer needs. Angola aims to reconquer before crossing the wide-open plains of infrastructure. The expectation is that harbour of Lobito, one of the biggest this export market. Moxico to the border with the Democratic these improvements will provide the deepwater seaports on the west coast of An extensive $1.2 billion port- Republic of Congo (DRC). Severed in synergy necessary to attract investors Africa. While identical in form to Luanda, improvement plan has been under several places since the 1970s, the rail line to their farming, industrial, mining and with its quays protected by a long spit way since March 2008. Rail and port is now nearing completion of a $1.9 billion tourism sectors. of sandy beach formed by the prevailing infrastructure is almost ready for a massive revamp contract undertaken by by China

The core assets of the Lobito Corridor southern current, Lobito has deeper access boost in throughput from just under 3 Railway 20 Bureau Group Corporation (CR- are the Angolan port of Lobito and the channels. Its dock areas are more extensive million tonnes a year at present to a total of 20) begun in 2006. Benguela Railway (Caminho de Ferro de and spacious and have ample room for around 20 million tonnes. When fully operational with new Lobito port movement data Benguela or CFB). Before 1975, more than expansion, whereas Luanda is constrained One study forecasts 2 million tonnes of rolling stock and fibre optic signalling, the 80 per cent of CFB freight carried to Lobito by steep hills. copper will pass through the port in 2020. line will have capacity to carry 20 million originated beyond Angola’s frontiers, Lobito also enjoys a strategic location, At current prices this would be worth a tonnes of freight and 4 million passengers 2011 2012 with the most important cargo – copper not only in Angola but also in relation huge $14 billion. a year. This compares with the CFB 1973 Container movements 106,552 124,243 – mined in Zambia and what is today the to Africa. It is halfway along the north- When completed, the revamped port record of just 3.28 million tonnes, half of Democratic Republic of Congo. south coastal route and is thus ideally will have a total of 7.8km of quays and the which was international traffic. Angola Cargo handled 2.7mt* 2.9mt* The strong business case for resurrecting placed as an outlet for the east-west capacity to berth 20 ocean-going vessels at signed an agreement with General Electric the CFB's copper traffic underpins the corridor at Angola’s ‘waistline’. It is also any one time, move 11 million tonnes of in February for the supply of 100 new Ship movements 708 579 urgency of rebuilding the railway. The price the Atlantic terminus of an extended road general cargo a year and handle 700,000 locomotives for use on the CFB, with of this mineral has rocketed in the past and rail corridor that connects with Beira, containers. Lobito port can currently delivery to begin by the end of 2013. Cars unloaded 1,847 2,129 accommodate 12 ships at the same time, The railway’s reconstruction is almost compared to eight in 2012. complete. In August, work reached Luau in Source: Port of Lobito Authority * million tonnes A study forecasts 2 million tonnes So far the port has rebuilt 1,122 Moxico on the border with the DRC. From metres of quays and has repaved the dock there it will reconnect with the rail network of copper will pass through Lobito in 2020. areas. Equipment upgrades include new in the rich copper belt of the DRC and cranes, container handlers, grain silos neighbouring Zambia in December. and a terminal for refrigerated containers. Copper mining in the region amounts At current prices this would be Additional facilities under construction on to around 1.3 million tonnes a year and a site reclaimed from the sea include a new worth a huge $14 billion ore terminal to handle increased copper exports and other minerals. A new container terminal and access bridge provides a rail link with a dry port 3km away. Work has also begun SADC countries on a specialist terminal for container- transported minerals. Topping off the Angola Botswana DR Congo port’s make over are future plans for an ocean cruiser terminal and yacht marina to Potential Corridor cargoes Lesotho Madagascar Malawi attract tourism to the region. Port modernisation efforts are not Mauritius Mozambique Namibia limited to infrastructure. The dock Copper Manganese Cobalt Zinc Sugar authorities have also improved staff Seychelles South Africa Swaziland Coal Lead Timber Maize training to enable workers to use the sophisticated new equipment, as well as Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe Cement Oil Construction materials

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Attractive new stations are a feature of all Angola's railway lines The Lobito Corridor: A means to tapping Africa's potential Kamene M Traça

accounts for 7 per cent of world output. rail link will make Zambia and the DRC $500 million to reinstate its rail Angola’s CFB serves as a cheaper and more dynamic economies, while Angola infrastructure in the copper belt, while shorter link to the coast and markets in will reap transport revenues and attract Zambia requires just $15 million. Given the the Americas and Europe. Copper exports private investment along the route and to better state of Zambian railways, Angola is currently go mostly by road transport, but the wider region. considering building a direct 300km cross- also by road and rail, to Indian Ocean ports The CFB will allow copper to travel border line. This would bypass the DRC at Beira in Mozambique, and Dar es Salaam more efficiently from the mines in central via a junction around Chuaia to the Jimbe in Tanzania, as well as via Durban in South Africa to the coast in just 72 hours, reducing border town in Moxico. This would have Africa, doubling the copper’s distance to freight costs. Present alternative routes to the advantage of reducing dependence on Atlantic markets. the coast almost double the distance. the DRC for transit and delays caused by The hope is that the re-established The DRC reportedly needs to invest border crossings. The CFB is modernising with an eye on economic developments in Angola for future traffic. It is developing branch lines to serve industrial concentrations along

the route, such as Caála near Huambo. Mark Clydesdale BZO The scene is now set to change current freight flows. Within a short period, the copper traffic and bulk freight from the coast such as fuel, fertilisers and cement will restart in earnest. In the medium The modernisation of the CFB also has term, farm produce from Angola’s interior and beyond will begin to use the CFB along its entire length, and also for export an eye on economic developments in via Lobito. Eventually, goods produced on Angola’s coast in the Lobito-Benguela region – notably products related to the Angola for future traffic Lobito refinery now under construction, as well as textiles – will also use the cross- Africa railway link. Kamene M Traça

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Road connectivity more than 600 pylons over 250km to carry are also investment opportunities for food Rail is not the only transport mode in the wires from the Cambambe Dam to Lobito cold storage and processing of supplies Lobito Corridor: The fastest route to the ocean Lobito Corridor. As the CFB traverses by the end of 2013. The dam’s capacity from Benguela’s extremely rich fisheries, the ‘waistline’ of Angola, Trans-African will rise from its present 180MW output to and meat packing in the Corridor’s Highway 9 shadows it for much of its 960MW in 2014, and the Lobito area will highland pastures. length. Highway 9 links Lobito to Beira on receive up to 200MW in the following year. The Lobito refinery will be a major the coast of Mozambique 3,523km away. Work on the transmission line reached boost for the corridor. Eventually, the CFB Mark Clydesdale BZO Within Angola the road is still being rebuilt the coastal plain near Sumbe in June, will carry refined products to central Angola for much of its length east of Kuito to the allowing a clean run through to Lobito, after as well as on to markets elsewhere in the border of the DRC. having conquered the obstacle of Angola’s interior. Planners are also considering The highway provides connections central highlands. building a fuel pipeline parallel to the to the north and south, giving access to The extra wattage will ensure the railway to serve Zambia. the whole Angolan road network as the operation of the corridor’s largest industrial Looking further ahead, petrochemicals, major north-south routes cross the Lobito project – the $8 billion, 200,000 barrels per plastics and fertilisers may all be produced Corridor at the coast and at Huambo, Kuito day Lobito refinery now under construction. in the refinery area. and Luena. Power supplies will also have a dramatic Latest traveller reports reveal the effect on other industrial developments at Economic expansion revamped highway north from Luena is in the twin cities of Lobito and Benguela. The Lobito Corridor even in its incomplete excellent condition all the way to Saurimo Other dams are feeding energy into stage shows signs of the greater economic in Lunda Sul province and work is under the Lobito Corridor. In Benguela province expansion to come. Operative sections way beyond in Lunda Norte, the heart of Biopio (18MW) is already operative, while of the CFB are already attracting large Angola’s buoyant diamond industry. Lumaum (65MW) is scheduled to start up numbers of farming families as passengers, Chinese companies connected with this year. Gove Dam (60MW) in Huambo often carrying sack loads of excess produce railroad builder CR-20 are looking at was reinaugurated in 2012, and this supplies for sale in neighbouring town markets. developing agribusiness concerns in Huambo and Kuito, the two major cities This ant-like, small-scale carriage of goods Angola’s fertile interior in Lunda Sul, Lunda on the highland section of the corridor, will only increase in size as new industries, Norte and Moxico provinces. This will while Luena will benefit from the 12.4MW wholesalers and distributors are attracted potentially add more traffic to the CFB and Tchihumbwe Dam planned for 2015. to the corridor. Cement from Cimaforte’s corridor highways. new plant at Catumbela is already using the To effectively tap Angola’s economic Process industries line and has transported over 3,000 tonnes potential, strategic logistic hubs are planned Given adequate electricity supplies, to date. where roads from the provinces meet the processing and manufacturing industries Once investors realise the region’s CFB. Private operators are expected to run will be able to expand with an eye on the potential and mobilises, they will have these multimodal terminals. market provided by the Lobito Corridor’s easier access to the western hub, thanks vast hinterland. to Catumbela Airport, which lies between Energy network Secil Cement’s existing Lobito plant Benguela and Lobito. Catumbela was An essential ingredient for the Lobito produces 400,000 tonnes a year but is rebuilt and extended in 2012 to handle Corridor’s development is energy. Angola investing in a new factory nearby to add a international flights. It will serve an currently lacks an effective electricity supply million tonnes a year of capacity. important role for businesspeople investing network despite an ambitious expansion Benguela’s modernised Africa Textil in and overseeing projects in the Lobito programme for power dams. mill producing towels, sheets and blankets Corridor, as well as air cargo. It will also aid Sweden’s Eltel Networks is erecting is due to restart operations in 2014. There the region’s tourism industry. p

Catumbela Airport was rebuilt in 2012

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inding common ground towards there were signs that it was starting to creating a greener Angola was the bear fruit. Speaking to the press during theme of Ambiente – Angola 2013, the event, Osvaldo Abreu, Minister of the third Luanda International Environment for the island nation of São EnvironmentalF Technologies Fair. Tomé and Príncipe, declared his country’s The Luanda International Fair (FILDA) desire to “boost co-operation with Angola and Angola’s Ministry of Environment in the areas of environmental technology, jointly organised the event from May 30 with a view to increasing development in to June 2. the sector”. Speaking at the fair, José de Matos Minister Abreu also outlined the Cardoso, chairman of FILDA’s board necessity of strengthening the partnership of directors, stressed the importance in areas relating to the management of of integrating clean technologies and ports, telecommunications and airports. MAKING ANGOLA production processes. He outlined a He revealed that other partnerships with future vision for Angola where the public Angolan firms were in the pipeline and and private sectors placed concern for the would boost existing fraternal relations environment at the heart of their strategies between the two countries. with the goal of achieving sustainable He noted that the fair was “three days development for the country. of hard work, but with lots of learning and The fair, promoting environmental exchanges of experiences. We leave here technologies, was held at the FILDA with a broader view of what is being done GREENER exhibition site on the outskirts of Luanda. in Angola in relation to environmental It brought together Angolan specialists, protection, and the care to be taken with Ambiente 2013, the Luanda-based environmental fair, promotes institutions and citizens with prospective the environment, so I must thank and Universo technology suppliers and business congratulate Angola for the invitation to Angolaʼs green agenda. reports on the recent event and partners, in particular those related to this event.” innovative solar energy initiatives in southern Africa solid, liquid and gas waste management. “FILDA aims to promote savings, Success for Sonangol investment and development, as well as The fair attracted a 100-strong contingent to highlight the opportunities that exist to of exhibitors, representing the full By Adam Marshall unite the economy and ecology in order spectrum of Angola’s emerging economy. to make business both profitable and Those present included the sectors of urban sustainable,” said Matos Cardoso. development, construction, farming and Mankind must be aware of the need forestry, industry, energy and transport. to preserve the environment in order to Nine foreign countries flew the flag for accomplish its aims and lead comfortable, four continents: Brazil, China, France, dignified lives while not forgetting future Germany, Nigeria, Portugal, São Tomé and generations, he said. Príncipe, South Africa and Spain. Mato Cardoso highlighted the key role Sonangol was among the exhibitors, that Angola could play in achieving these and this year’s fair brought accolades goals, via public-private partnerships that as the company scooped the award simultaneously pool skills and promote for Best Participation-Environmental social responsibility. The third edition of Technologies. This topped off a successful Ambiente – Angola marked a positive step month for Sonangol; the Angolan oil giant in this direction, he said. received a Best Oil Company award at the Cabinda International Fair and was Regional co-operation honoured for Best National Participation Even before the fair had come to a close, at the Benguela International Fair.

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The Solucar solar complex, Seville, Spain

Here comes the sun is the concept of concentrating solar position throughout the day in order to an innovative dry cooling system”. It At cold daybreak he has a mind to get radiation to produce steam, which can optimise efficiency. has calculated that this technological firewood. After sunrise he changes his mind subsequently generate electricity. innovation will reduce water consumption saying, “Sending forth the sun, Kalunga One advantage of CSP technology, African example by 80 per cent. (God) has supplied the fuel” – Angolan compared to other renewable technologies South Africa’s Department of Energy Also located on the Northern Cape Umbundu proverb. is its capacity to store energy efficiently, picked Abengoa Solar to develop the near to Pofadder, the other project under Angolans have always appreciated the making it possible to generate electricity country’s first two CSP projects, both of construction is KaXu Solar One, a 100 MW capacity of the sun’s energy to sustain life even after sunset. This can be achieved which are currently under construction. parabolic-trough project with three hours on earth. In today’s Angola, positive steps using various CSP types. The two projects Abengoa Solar will have a 51 per of thermal storage. The plant will cover 315 are being taken towards harnessing this under construction in South Africa make cent stake in the projects: 29 per cent hectares and have approximately 1,200 resource in new exciting ways. use of CSP tower technology and parabolic- will belong to the state-owned Industrial parabolic-trough solar collectors. Research by the National Renewable trough technology respectively. Development Corporation – South Africa’s Energy Laboratory (NREL), a US Department largest development finance institution Water for all of Energy-funded institute, ranks Angola Towering above the rest – while the nation’s Black Economic Although Angola has yet to embrace large- 25th in the world in terms of solar- In tower systems, a field of mobile Empowerment programme will hold the scale solar projects, there are encouraging power potential. NREL calculates that mirrors known as heliostats, tracks the remaining 20 per cent. signs that it is starting to take solar the country has the capacity to produce sun’s position and reflects the rays onto The South African government has set technology seriously. A government- a whopping 3.9 billion megawatt hours a receptor located in the upper part of a a target date of 2030, by which time it aims backed solar project has already started (MWh) of electricity per year from the tower, concentrating it at up to 600 times to produce 17,800 MW of the country’s to make a huge difference to the lives of sun’s rays. the rays’ strength. This heat is transmitted energy needs from renewable sources. ordinary Angolans and is being piloted To put this in perspective, in 2008 to a fluid to generate steam. The steam It hopes that these projects will help it at Bom Jesus, 50km east of Luanda. This Angolans consumed less than 4 million then expands in a turbine linked to an achieve this ambitious goal. technology uses the sun’s power to supply MWh, meaning that if Angola could electricity-producing generator. Located in Upington, Northern clean drinking water. somehow harvest all that extra solar power, In parabolic-trough technology Cape, Khi Solar One will be the first 50 The pilot is being delivered through it would be able to cover its annual energy covered, trough-shaped reflectors MW superheated steam solar tower in the Angolan government’s Water for All needs many times over. concentrate solar radiation on to a receiver the world. It will have a thermal storage Programme, which aims to provide clean pipe running along the inside of the curved capacity of two hours, being able to water to 80 per cent, of its rural population A shining example surface. This heats synthetic oil which produce electricity for that period after and 50 per cent of urban dwellers by 2015, If Angola requires inspiration on ways to flows through the pipe, heating water to sunset. According to Abengoa Solar, with targets raised to 100 per cent and 80 unlock this potentially bountiful resource, produce electricity via a conventional this project “represents an important per cent respectively, by 2020. it does not need to look too far from steam generator. As with the mirrors, technological advance in tower efficiency To achieve this ambitious target, the home. Spanish firm Abengoa Solar, one parabolic troughs also track the sun’s by using higher temperatures and government enlisted the help of Quest of the most innovative solar technology companies in the world, has a global presence, with operations in Europe, Asia, The Solucar solar complex, Seville, Spain and the Americas and, crucially for Angola, in Africa. Worldwide, Abengoa Solar has 743 MW of installed solar capacity around the world, 910 MW under construction and a blistering gigawatt (GW) in development. The firm’s African operations are currently focused in Algeria and South Africa. In Algeria it has built and now operates a 150 MW integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC) power plant, while in South Africa it is constructing two concentrating solar power (CSP) plants which, when operational, will have a combined output of 150 MW. Abengoa Solar’s innovation and application of CSP technologies is what makes it stand out from the crowd. CSP

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If Angola could somehow harvest all Water Solutions, an innovative Canadian photovoltaic solar water-technology company. panels, strategically After seeing first-hand the daily placed to capture the its solar power, it would be able to cover struggles of ordinary Angolans to source abundant rays of the sun. safe drinking water, company founders This allows the AQUAtap its annual energy needs many times over John Balanko and Peter Miele set about to operate off-grid in designing the AQUAtap, a mobile solar- remote areas. powered water-purification system. All that it requires The pilot AQUAtap has been operating is a water source and at Bom Jesus since March 2012, providing sunlight; Angola has an the villagers and people from the abundance of both. The surrounding area – some of whom come grateful villagers access from 20 miles away – with clean drinking the finished product free water. Before its installation, they took of charge via two taps their water directly, untreated, from the situated at one end of nearby Kwanza River. the unit. AQUAtap is able to take water from In addition to a source deemed “unfit for human requiring no mains consumption” and purify it to a level electricity, the AQUAtap

exceeding World Health Organization produces zero harmful Shutterstock standards. So how does it work? waste and does not The contaminated water is pumped up employ any of the chemicals often are currently involved in discussions to the unit – a brightly painted shipping associated with traditional water- which could see AQUAtaps distributed container situated just 35 metres from the purification techniques. throughout Angola. “We’re hoping that river bank. The AQUAtap’s humble exterior “We’ve created something that can we become the de facto system for the belies a high-tech interior replete with top- be run as a business, but be very much a entire Water for All Programme for rural specification water filters and ultraviolet humanitarian effort as well,” says Peter Miele. populations,” says Balanko. lights which clean and disinfect “At the moment Angolans are paying as If given the go-ahead, Quest plans the water, bringing it up to much as $30 for 1,000 litres of water which to open an AQUAtap factory in Angola. the required standard. is delivered by trucks. Our water works out Balanko says this would make the system The entire system at around $1.60 for 1,000 litres, making it cheaper to produce, bringing down the runs off batteries ten times cheaper than what is currently on final cost of each unit. At the same time continually charged the market,” Balanko says. it would benefit the Angolan economy by by 16 rooftop The entrepreneurs and the government providing jobs for the local population. p

Secretary of State for Industry Dr Kiala Gabriel inaugurates AQUAtap's Bom Jesus plant

The Solucar solar complex, Seville, Spain

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FINALS PREPARATION:

ngola is preparing the ground for hosting the 2013 FIRS HOCKEY ANGOLA Men’s Roller Hockey World Cup from September 20 to A28. This 41st edition of the games will be the first time the tournament has been held in Africa and will take place at two venues – the Cidadela stadium in Luanda and the Welwitschia Mirabilis stadium in Namibe. The teams playing in the World Cup are the first 13 countries at the last World Cup, and the first three countries qualified at the last ‘B’ World Cup. The make-up of each group has already been decided. Angola will be in Group C and will face Chile, Portugal and continental rivals South Africa. In preparation for the competition, the country is spending around $14 million to improve roads, basic sanitation, green areas, parking and public lighting around the stadia. Angola’s hosting of the hockey championship is expected to boost the sport throughout the country. p

Group A Austria Brazil Spain Switzerland

Group B Argentina England France Germany

Group C Angola Chile Portugal South Africa

Group D Colombia Italy Mozambique United States

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Sonatrach cooperation Fairs fair ■ Sonangol and its Algerian counterpart Sonatrach announced in July that they will cooperate in oil sector projects. After a meeting with José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, Angola’s Minister of Oil, Youcefi Yousfi, Algeria’s Minister of Energy and Mines, said that his country aimed to widen the range of its co-operation with Angola in oil exploration. “We discussed all the possibilities and opportunities for co-operation between our two ■ The Angola LNG project won the prize for best participant in other international fairs: firstly, at Expo Cabinda 2013, where 220 ministries and between our two the energy and oil category at the 30th edition of FILDA, Luanda’s companies representing the industrial, oil, agribusiness and food state companies, Sonangol and

International Fair (July 19–21). sectors took part, and second, at the Third Benguela International Sonatrach,” he said. Shutterstock Sonangol showcased products and services from Fair where 240 companies exhibited. subsidiaries MSTelcom, Sonagás and its industrial investments In Benguela, Sonangol’s stand portrayed the size and arm SIIND at the event and also publicised its corporate social multiple trajectories achieved since its foundation 37 years ago. responsibility work. The company was also awarded a prize in The company had displays from several of its many businesses recognition of its contribution to supporting FILDA’s success over such as gas subsidiary Sonagás, SIIND and fuel distributor the past three decades. In May, Sonangol also exhibited at two Sonangol Distribuidora. Sonangol in PSVM oil talks with Sonangol Schlesser win again Waste PetroVietnam peaks early ■ Angola and Vietnam are to set up a joint management venture to explore for crude oil in Angola ■ Sonangol partner BP said in June that its PSVM offshore oil and gas development and Vietnam. A co-operation protocol was ■ Sonangol Logística is to build an will reach peak production of 150,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) in December, originally signed in 2008 and subsequently oil-waste storage and treatment earlier than previously expected. Martyn Morris, BP’s regional president, said PSVM ratified. Vietnam’s oil major PetroVietnam terminal in Luanda. The aim is to use was currently producing around 100,000 bpd, up from 70,000 barrels earlier this and Sonangol are now holding talks on the facility to deal with any future oil year. The project, which has already absorbed around $10 billion of investment, the subject. spills. Mondlane Boa Morte, secretary includes two other partners, Statoil and Marathon Oil. The announcement by Oil Minister of Sonangol Shipping’s executive José María Botelho de Vasconcelos came commission, announced the move during the August visit to Angola of Pham ■ Jean-Louis Schlesser of the Sonangol Schlesser team was the overall winner of the at the Third Seminar on Safety, Binh Minh, Vietnam’s Foreign Minister. Silk Way Rally in Russia’s Volga region in July. The race over 500km in temperatures Protection and Marine Environmental of 50 degrees centigrade was another tough test for the team, but the Frenchman and Preservation held in Luanda in June. his Russian navigator Konstantin Zhiltsov took the spoils and celebrated in Astrakhan, He said all security measures in beating Vladimir Vasilyev of the G-Force team into second place. line with national and international “I built this victory one day at a time,” said Schlesser. “I had to stay in contact with standards were essential, as risks the contenders and never lose my cool and take each stage as it came. I won stage were high in marine transport and two, and then we remained mindful and paid extra attention not to commit any errors. any possible spills might damage the The battle with Vasilyev was intense, it was a great fight. We won because I am more image of Sonangol and Angola. experienced and have a faster car.” Shutterstock Shutterstock

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Angola LNG delivers New data centre for MSTelcom ■ The Angola LNG project delivered its first consignment of liquefied natural gas on July 14 when the cargo arrived at Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay gas terminal. Angola LNG is a joint venture formed by Sonangol, Chevron, BP, Total and ENI. Gas tanker Sonangol Sambizanga transported 160,000 cubic metres of the gas from Angola’s Soyo facility in Zaire province across the South Atlantic. Artur Pereira, chairman of Angola LNG Marketing, said several sale agreements had been signed with companies around the world, ensuring Angola LNG a stable customer portfolio. The $10 billion Angola LNG project is a trade and ■ Sonangol subsidiary MSTelcom has started work on a $98 firm Grupo Mota Engil environmental solution adopted to million data storage centre. The project aims to provide secure which will be responsible for reduce gas flaring and pollution. data backup and thus ensure business customers are able to building roads, maintenance The company will process, sell and continue operations even in the event of a disaster. It will also buildings, technical galleries deliver 5.2 million tonnes of LNG a meet the needs of Angola’s growing domestic market for data and underground installations year as well as propane, butane and centre services. for water, power, fire services condensed gases. Located at Zango, Viana, on the outskirts of Luanda, the and telecommunications. Angola LNG unloading its first cargo in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro centre will reduce clients operational risks and guarantee normal Work began on June 21. continuity of their data services. The new facility will provide the The second stage is expanded telecommunications infrastructure needed for growing the construction of the data businesses and meet international standards. centre, and this is currently The data centre will be situated on the Viana industrial estate out for tender. Work is and has guaranteed basic infrastructure services. expected to begin in January 2014. Sonangol accounts Total Angola to The project is divided into four stages. The first stage of civil Details for the administration and social buildings are still engineering works for the centre was awarded to Portuguese being developed and work on the third and fourth stages will begin towards the end of 2015. The completed approved launch CLOV data centre is scheduled to be fully functioning by ■ Sonangol partner Total Angola is preparing to start July 2016. ■ Angola’s Ministry of Economy has certified Sonangol EP’s operations on the fourth floating production, storage accounts for 2012. Approval was given by Economy Minister Abraão and offloading (FPSO) vessel in deepwater offshore Tier III level rating Gourgel gave approval during a formal ceremony held on July 29. Block 17 in 2014. The CLOV project, launched in MSTelcom’s existing data centre has been This was the second time that the ministry has approved 2010, consists of four fields – Cravo, Lírio, Orquídea certified by the Uptime Institute to Tier III level. the accounts of public firms with a view to standardising their and Violeta. This means that its backup systems provide close management and thus effectively contributing to the production and Jean-Michel Lavergne, director of Total Angola, to 99.98 per cent service reliability in the event diversification process of the Angolan economy. Twenty-eight other said altogether 34 subsea wells will be connected to of a crisis. The highest level is Tier IV, which public companies from several sectors, out of a total of 54 firms, the FPSO, which will have a processing capacity of provides 99.99 per cent availability – this is used presented their reports and accounts for the year. 160,000 bpd and a storage capacity of approximately for systems with a global economic impact such 1.8 million barrels. as financial institutions.

42 SONANGOL UNIVERSO SEPTEMBER 2013 43 Sonangol Asia Sonangol Asia REACHING OUT Sonangol Asia celebrates its 10th birthday this year. Universo looks at how the company is building its customer base in the exciting, fast-growing Asian TO ASIA regional market FROM SONANGOL’S SINGAPORE OFFICE

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“There's a lot of space indeed for growth” - Luís Pedro Manuel, president onangol Asia, Sonasia for short, is the youngest of Sonangol VIETNAM MALAYSIA EP’s three international trading and marketing offices, joining Soperations with London and Houston in 2003. Established ten years ago as a platform to engage in the expanding Asian market, 16 employees, mostly Angolans, work quietly away in the company offices on the 31st floor of CHINA the Centennial Tower, a stone’s throw from Singapore’s iconic colonial-style | INDONESIA Raffles Hotel. Luís Pedro Manuel, Sonasia’s president, has been in office for just over 15 months after making the move from his eight-year stay at Sonangol USA, where for the final three years, he was president and chief executive officer. The best part of taking up the Sonasia post, he says, was that when he arrived its operations were already well- established; it had a portfolio of clients and enjoyed a very good reputation. INDIA Manuel was well grounded in the China is where the American environment (he studied at Tulsa University), but the oil trading global village where he spent much of his market is shifting to; career in trading and marketing meant he was already familiar with many of the most new refineries are players in Asia. THAILAND “It was a big plus that it wasn’t completely new to me. I had already being built there dealt with many people from the Asian market. Sonangol has three offices – Luís Pedro Manuel, president MYANMAR and a global team so there was lots of interaction with colleagues and I had the opportunity to meet most of the Asian clients at international oil conferences “One must understand and such as IP Week and APPEC.” respond to Asian cultural Manuel considers it a great privilege sensitivities” - Sonasia's to be in the position of having led operations manager, José Sonangol’s marketing efforts in two Fonseca Coelho of the world’s largest economies – the United States and now China. “China TAIWAN is where the market is shifting to; most new refineries are being built there. KOREA Crude consumption has been growing JAPAN fast in recent times,” he points out. “The US market is already very mature but Asia is growing. Asia is concentrating on building and securing crude supplies.”

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“Sonasia's philosophy is to be a reliable supplier “Our potential is the Singapore site with relatively lower per capita energy Cultured club operations manager, agrees. “Networking and open partner” - Alex Tan, trading and whole Asian market” marketing manager For Manuel, Singapore was chosen as consumption and very high economic Manuel is keenly aware of the importance of is very important and you need to visit - Óscar Brito, senior the site for Sonasia’s operations for growth rates. “The only way is up,” he cultural understanding in Asia, and this has customers to build up and consolidate crude oil trader much the same reasons as the city itself chuckles. “Singapore is THE place to be. been a learning curve after his long experience it. You need to join the voice to the face. was established: it is in the heart of an We need to be near our customers and be in the US market. Building trust with Asian It is always easier to find paths to solve economically important region and has Sonangol’s face to the Asian market.” clients is vital , he explains, and trust takes problems once the face is known,” he easy access to almost all Asian markets. Before Sonasia started up in 2003, the time to develop. But once established, it leads explains. “One must understand and Strategic position was paramount. company had no representation in Asia to a solid business relationship. respond to Asian cultural sensitivities and “Placing Sonasia in a large country and sales were negligible, but since 2005 Alex Tan says more and more Chinese be flexible with customers. Trust takes time such as China or India may distract us and they have expanded massively largely oil companies, including privately-owned to build up.” limit our attention away from the rest of the thanks to burgeoning Chinese demand for ones, are moving to Singapore. Although “It’s also important to offer a quality Asian market,” he says. crude oil. he has Chinese language skills, Tan says service and be readily available. Our clients Singapore-born Alex Tan, Sonasia’s A decade ago volumes were small and that they alone are not sufficient to bridge prize this availability. manager for crude oil trading and marketing Sonangol EP had altogether only 12 cargoes the gap in understanding. Oil marketers The Indian market is expanding, says is an eight-year company veteran. a month globally. Now there is a very in Asia need to be cultural translators, Tan; refining until recently was a state While most of Sonasia’s staff members different picture. Sonangol EP manages develop personal trust and have a cultural monopoly but now new private refiners are fluent English-speaking Angolans, Tan more than 22 cargoes and the number of affinity with clients. are emerging so there are lots more has a key role as a speaker of Mandarin and oil grades has risen from fewer than 10 to “Sonasia’s philosophy is to be a reliable opportunities for Sonangol. Sonangol Asia as a cultural ambassador. He understands around 14. supplier and open partner with a long- is already established in China and India the nuances of doing business with the In the past eight years the Chinese term perspective. It has built a very good and is now working on developing other company’s largest client, China. Singapore’s market has grown tremendously. Most reputation for reliability and fairness with Asian markets. lingua franca is English. Local Malays, business is still conducted with state oil customers in Asia,” he says. “Senior crude oil trader Óscar Indians and Chinese speak to each other in companies but now includes other clients in Sonasia seeks out platforms to meet Brito believes that although Sonangol this international language of business. China. Market coverage has become wider. existing and potential customers to is a company with an African cultural Besides China, the company now promote interaction and understanding. background it has managed to mingle and Asian promise has also a very important presence in It uses opportunities such as international blend in and is “now nicely established”. Tan says the potential for oil sales growth India, an achievement that is a source of conferences and exhibitions to meet and “We’re in the market and we try to do in Asia is enormous as there are 2.5 billion great pride among the staff at Sonangol’s reinforce client connections. our best for each sale. Our potential is the people in China and India alone in a region Singapore office. José Fonseca Coelho, Sonasia’s whole Asian market,” he says.

The complete Sonangol Asia team at the Singapore office Work-life balance

The consensus among Angolan staff is that Singapore is an easy city to live in. It offers a good standard of living and services. English is spoken. Amenities are good. International schools – American, Australian, French, British and Chinese – are available for the highly mobile international business community. Many parents are seeing the benefits of giving their children an understanding of Mandarin. Vanda Assis, Sonasia’s senior finance, says Singapore has a high standard of living, is good for education, health provision and safety, and the climate is summer all year round, so she is happy to bring up her two children there. Assis found it easy to adapt to the city-state and her colleagues, who echo her views, helped make it a welcoming place.

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“We provide the vital support service” Januário Jorge Chivangulula, Sonasia’s “There’s a lot of space indeed for growth,” Well connected - Januário Jorge Chivangulula, senior finance officer Key support senior finance officer when explaining emphasises Manuel. Nevertheless, he is well Singapore is one of the world’s most the role of Sonasia’s finance department, aware of the big challenge new markets advanced cities in terms of infrastructure, Finance, administration and says: “We provide the vital support service represent as many are already tied into long- and also in environmental care. It is an human resource manager, to trading and operations. We make sure term Middle Eastern supply contracts. excellent air-transport hub and has good Clarisse Figueira, says that payments are made accurately and in a Manuel sees a need to expand public transport. The city also boasts one of Sonasia serves an important timely manner.” operations and employ more staff at the the busiest container ports in the world. role in covering and Singapore office to deal with the existing The government provides a very representing Sonangol’s Future expansion and future workload. “Thanks to company favourable and welcoming environment name in the Far East The huge Chinese and Indian oil markets policies, Sonangol already has many for business, making it easy to establish region. She added that still have great potential for growth. capable, trained personnel within its new offices. the department that she is However, Luís Pedro Manuel sees a lot of ranks ready to step up to the challenge,” heading is also critical as space for sales elsewhere in the region too. he notes. Strategic location it contributes by looking Tan agrees that well-established major The port city of Singapore was founded in after Sonasia personnel. oil consumers must not be overlooked Sonaci adds value 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles, the British East in Sonangol’s quest for a wider range of The subsuming of Sonangol’s three India Company agent, because of its key “We contribute by looking after clients. “Let’s not forget that Japan is still marketing offices – London, Houston location in the narrow Malacca Straits on the Sonasia personnel” - Clarisse one of the world’s largest economies and and Singapore – under the umbrella of main shipping route between India, Japan Figueira, finance, administration and human resource manager Korea is also very important too.” Sonangol Comercialização Internacional and China. Raffles was largely responsible for Manuel would also like to grow Sonangol’s (Sonaci) management is positive and will the creation of Britain’s Far Eastern empire. business in Taiwan and Thailand while at the improve efficiency, Manuel believes. Sonasia’s Alex Tan describes Singapore same time look for an opportunity to enter “Sonaci will concentrate on strategy as “a big city in a small country”. Business new markets such as Indonesia, Malaysia, and the mission of bringing greater value to and commerce on Singapore’s river was the Myanmar, the Philippines and Vietnam. our shareholder, Sonangol EP,” he predicts. starting point of the former British colony. It developed into a major transport hub

and warehousing facility where large bulk cargoes were parcelled off into smaller Singapore’s Asian air access quantities by middlemen for selling on to regional markets, he explains. Capital city Flying time Indians, Chinese and the local Malay (hours - minutes) populations settled at this junction of seaborne goods traffic and have continued to > 8 hours Tokyo...... 7.06 trade here with enthusiasm ever since. Tan says there is a pioneering spirit in Singapore’s > 7 hours Beijing...... 6.40 population similar to that found in highly Lahore...... 6.45 functional entrepreneurial and immigrant Seoul...... 6.17 societies elsewhere, such as New York. The people are naturals at commerce with a > 6 hours Delhi...... 5.38 strong urge to create and build businesses. Today the city is truly an international,

> 5 hours Taiwan...... 4.19 multicultural and multiracial society with a population of over five million. Gone are Singapore’s original warehouses – in > 4 hours Hanoi...... 3.13 their place are modern, glass-fronted Hong Kong...... 3.42 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs hrs skyscrapers clustered along the waterfront Manila...... 3.28 serving multinational companies and banks, dedicated to investment and trade > 3 hours Bangkok...... 2.16 finance. Foreigners and locals alike still fill Yangon...... 2.52 Singapore’s waterfront, where merchants once sat at their storeroom gates, but they are > 2 hours Phnom Penh...... 1.54 more likely to be jogging along the bay side Jakarta...... 1.37 or having a drink in the busy bars, perhaps Kuala Lumpur...... 0.53 chatting to tourists breaking their journey on a stop-over from a long-haul flight. p

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Supplying the world…

SS Sonangol Sambizanga leaves Soyo, Angola, with the first cargo of LNG bound for Rio de Janeiro

ANGOLA LNG

Liquefied Natural Gas was always going to be an intelligent move and Angola LNG has begun the first of many shipments to the world of this precious, clean and reliable fuel.

One that will not just fuel the Angolan economy but the world at large.

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