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SONANGOL UNIVERSO Uwww.universo-magazine.comniverso SEPTEMBER 2013 MUTUAL BENEFITS: Angola’s China links ON TRACK FOR SUCCESS: The Lobito Corridor ROOM FOR GROWTH: Sonangol in Asia Angola wins Biennale gold ISSUE 39 – SEPT EMBER 2013 INSIDE: oil and gas news 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 2 SONANGOL UNIVERSO SEPTEMBER 2013 3 Angola news briefing Angola news briefing 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 6 SONANGOL UNIVERSO SEPTEMBER 2013 7 Shutterstock INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL 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.
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