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SONANGOL UNIVERSO ISSUE 44 – DECEMBER 2014 Houston, home to Sonangol USA and Chevron OVERVIEW

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

Executive administrators: Anabela Soares de Brito da Fonseca, Ana Joaquina Van-Dúnem Alves da Costa, Fernandes Gaspar Bernardo Mateus, Fernando Joaquim Roberto, Mateus Sebastião Francisco Neto, Paulino Fernando Carvalho Jerónimo Non-executive administrators: Albina Assis Africano, José Gime, André Lelo, José Paiva Shutterstock Sonangol Department for Communication & Image Director Mateus Cristóvão Benza Shutterstock Corporate Communications Assistants Sonangol’s American Nadiejda Santos, Paula Almeida, Hélder Sirgado, Kimesso Kissoka mission control Publisher: Sheila O’Callaghan Editor: John Kolodziejski Managing Editor: Mauro Perillo ouston, Texas, the North American hub of Sonangol’s Art Director: Tony Hill global operations, is the focus of our December Sub Editor: Brian MacReamoinn issue. Here, Universo visited Sonangol USA’s HQ, Proofreading: Gail Nelson-Bonebrake which deals with oil marketing and trading, and, Circulation Manager: Matthew Alexander Hin the same office suite, Stena Sonangol Suezmax Pool, which Production Assistant: Sebnem Brown oversees shipping operations. Nearby, we dropped in at the office Project Consultant: Nathalie MacCarthy of WAMS, the body allocating and looking after Sonangol scholars Group President: John Charles Gasser in North America. A fourth stopping point was Chevron’s Africa department in Houston’s downtown, where we got an update on the impressive engineering feat of the Congo River Crossing Pipeline and other major Chevron projects in Angola. Universo is produced by Impact Media Custom Publishing. The views expressed in the publication are not necessarily The lasting, uplifting impressions of Angola’s presence in those of Sonangol or the publishers. Reproduction in whole or in part without prior permission is prohibited. Houston’s oil sector were, firstly, the rapid career ascension and This magazine is distributed to a closed circulation. progress of young Angolans, especially in the areas of shipping To receive a free copy: and trading, and secondly, the massive rise in the numbers [email protected] Circulation: 15,000 of Sonangol scholars through the WAMS system, a figure that recently more than doubled to 500. Davenport House, 16 Pepper Street, London E14 9RP United Kingdom Even if one does not consider Houston ‘the oil capital of the Tel + 44 20 7510 9595 | Fax +44 20 7510 9596 world’ as one interviewee claimed, then it is certainly a great place [email protected] www.universo-magazine.com to see how Sonangol is expanding and how well young Angolans www.sonangol.co.ao are progressing professionally in the industry. [email protected] Front cover: Paenal John Kolodziejski

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2 SONANGOL UNIVERSO Contents Brazuk 4 ANGOLA NEWS BRIEFING

A roundup of national and international news concerning Angola

7 FIGURED OUT 8 A brief glance at Angola in numbers

8 CHEVRON TAMES THE CONGO

An update on the colossal projects of the US oil giant in Angola

16 SONANGOL NEWS BRIEFING

Highlights of noteworthy news items from Sonangol EP and 20 its subsidiaries Stena

20 SONANGOL USA: NEW ERA, NEW CLIENTS

Sonangol’s quest for new markets in the Americas as the United States becomes more self-sufficient in oil and gas 28 28 STENA SONANGOL: POOLING RESOURCES

An update on Sonangol’s successful joint venture in shipping Brazuk Ltd Stena

36 WAMS: SUPPORTING STUDENTS

How Sonangol’s scholarship support company is multiplying opportunities in North America for Angolan students 36

40 ASSET INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT: AIMING HIGH Jose Frade

The steps Sonangol is taking to manage some of its aging production assets

44 NATIONAL SHOW TIME The highlights of Angola’s national cultural festival, Fenacult 2014 44

DECEMBER 2014 3 Angola news briefing

Indonesia co-operation deal Jakarta ■ Angolan Vice President, Manuel Vicente conveyed President José Eduardo dos Santos’ congratulations to Indonesia’s newly elected President Joko Widodo during a four-day visit to Jakarta at the end of October. Vicente, on behalf of President dos Santos, also expressed Angola’s readiness to reinforce co-operation between the two countries and thanked Indonesia for its support in the recent bid for a UN Security Council non-permanent seat. Angola is Indonesia’s third-largest African trading partner, after Nigeria and South Africa. Vice President Vicente witnessed the signing of a framework co-operation accord intended to boost oil and gas trade between the two countries. The deal also covers the energy and service sectors. Indonesia produces about 800,000 barrels of oil per day, while demand is five times greater. Shutterstock

African art shines at London fair

■ Photographic work by art and aims to put together the Somerset House Angola’s Venice Biennale 2013 best collection possible. winner, Edson Chagas, was “Not the most expensive, nor on display at a London fair the largest in volume, but that dedicated to African art held in which stimulates and enriches October. The event, titled 1:54, the best African artistic scene,” represented the 54 countries Sindika Dokolo said. which make up the African The foundation is dedicated continent. Pieces by more than to collecting, preserving, 100 artists were on show in 27 safeguarding and diffusing galleries at Somerset House on artistic production, especially the banks of the River Thames in Angola. It launched the first in central London. African Triennial and is behind The fair was sponsored by the Third Luanda Triennial the Sindika Dokolo Foundation scheduled for 2015. The as part of its efforts to stimulate foundation is also believed and promote contemporary to be backing an initiative to African art. The foundation create a contemporary art holds 5,000 works of African centre in the Angolan capital. Shutterstock

4 SONANGOL UNIVERSO Angola news briefing

IMF sees 5.9% growth in 2015 Inventors

■ Angola’s economy is expected to grow 3.9 per cent this year and 5.9 per cent in 2015, according to the latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook. strike gold In a separate announcement, Angola’s central bank, Banco Nacional de Angola, has predicted the country’s economy will grow at an annual average of 5 per cent over the ■ Angolan inventors won 10 next four years, driven by the growing participation of the private sector. medals, including two gold, five silver and three bronze, at the 66th International Trade Fair – Ideas, Inventions and New Products (iENA). The gold medals went to the Medicines and Toxicology Information Centre (Cimetox) at the Faculty of Medicine of Lueji A’Nkonde University for the production of the first antiophidic serum and computer systems firm Sistec for its electronic voting station. The Angolan entrants were competing with more than 700 exhibitors representing 32 countries from every continent. The fair took place in Nuremberg, Germany from October 30 to November 2. Shutterstock

Angola in $250 million International UN funding deal golf tees off ■ The Angolan government is to receive $250 million in support from the United Nations ■ Angola plans to host an international open golf for social sector projects. Angola’s Minister tournament in February 2016, under the umbrella of for Planning and Territorial Development the professional association for the sport in Europe, Job Graça signed the agreement with Youth and Sports Minister Gonçalves Muandumba UN Co-ordinator for Systems Dr Hernando announced in October. Agudelo, on November 5.

The funds will be used in the areas Shutterstock of sustainability, social and economic development for the period 2015–19 in line with priorities identified in Angola’s National Development Plan (2013–17), explained Minister Graça. The support will allow greater UN co-operation in planning and implementing specific projects in areas such as education, health and social care. The Ministry of Planning and Territorial Development is responsible for drawing up and implementing Angola’s public investment programmes. Shutterstock

DECEMBER 2014 5 Angola news briefing

Finance minister takes charge

Minister Armando Manuel

■ Angola has taken over the presidency of the Ministers of Finance of Southern and East Africa regional group for the 2014–15 period. In the move, Minister for Finance Armando Manuel replaced his Namibian counterpart Saara Kuugongelwa in the post. At the opening meeting of the organisation’s Council of Ministers, which represents 17 member states, Manuel said Angola would continue developing and improving measures to fight money laundering and the financing of terrorism. He also congratulated Uganda on adopting money laundering laws in October 2013 and for beginning the implementation of these laws through the establishment of a financial intelligence unit. The presidency of Angola will seek to encourage member countries to develop legal mechanisms and structures to comply with the resolutions of the UN Security Council on preventing, suppressing and stopping the proliferation of weapons and their funding, he said.

Angolan handball champions again Angop ■ Angola’s Primeiro de Agosto female handball team won the African club championship in Tunisia in October with a narrow 27–25 win over its national rivals Petro de Luanda, the champions in 2013. In a remarkable show of the strength of women’s handball in the country, Angola’s Progresso de Sambizanga also took the bronze medal in the pan- African competition with a 28–25 victory over Étoile du Congo. Fans turned out in force to welcome home the new African champions at Luanda’s International Airport and on the streets of the city.

6 SONANGOL UNIVERSO Angola news briefing

Population now Angola elected to over 24 million UN Security Council

■ Angola was elected a non- permanent member of the UN

United Nations Security Council for two years (2015–16) on October 16. Foreign Affairs Minister Georges Chikoti said Angolans were proud that their country had received the backing of other member states for the position. He promised that Angola would strive to make the UN Security Council more efficient and balanced. Shutterstock Georges Chikoti Minister Chikoti stated that, in ■ Preliminary results of Angola’s 2014 census show that the area of peace and security, the population now stands at 24.4 million, of which a Angola will be promoting dialogue little over half is female. Furthermore, the metropolis of among nations as an essential element for a culture of peace, respect for Luanda now houses 27 per cent of Angolans, with only difference and conflict prevention. 38 per cent living in rural areas. “Angola will also contribute to a more efficient identification of the Just seven provinces account for almost three- causes of conflict and to the reduction of violence through preventive quarters (72 per cent) of the entire population: Luanda, diplomacy, promoting the African agenda and contributing to peace and Huíla, Benguela, Huambo, Kwanza Sul, Bié and Uíge. security in Africa and the world,” he explained. The nationwide count, the first since 1970, was carried out in May.

FIGURED OUT Angola in numbers $5.6 billion 24.4 million investment in Chevron’s Mafumeira Sul project latest Angolan population (2014 census) $15 billion amount BP Angola will invest in next 10 years 5.9 per cent 117 metres IMF forecast of Angola’s GDP growth in 2015 estuary depth where Congo River Crossing is located

DECEMBER 2014 7 OIL MAJOR CHEVRON TAMES THE CONGO

8 SONANGOL UNIVERSO As well as having a long, proud oil production record in Angola, Chevron is currently also at the leading edge in developing landmark projects. Universo TAMES checks up on their progress

Chevron HQ in downtown Houston

DECEMBER 2014 9 Brazuk Ltd OIL MAJOR

f Chevron’s three large-scale The CRX1 is a component part of a ALNG was formed as a joint project in projects currently under much wider project aimed at supplying 2008 involving Sonangol (22.8 per cent); way in Angola, perhaps the natural gas to Angola’s liquefied natural Cabinda Gulf Oil Company (CABGOC), a most dramatic is the pipeline gas (LNG) plant at Soyo in Zaire province, subsidiary of Chevron Corporation (36.4 Ocrossing beneath the wide estuary of located on the southern shore of the Congo per cent); BP (13.6 per cent); Eni (13.6 the mighty River Congo. The Congo estuary. The pipeline crossings will provide per cent) and Total (13.6 per cent). The River Crossing (CRX1) project involves increased capacity to supply associated gas stakeholders will provide associated gas simultaneously drilling vertically from from Chevron-operated Blocks 0 and 14 to from their respective offshore oil fields. platforms on both sides of Africa’s deepest, the Angola LNG (ALNG) plant and thus Ali Moshiri said he is very proud of most powerful river to a depth of 610 drastically reduce flaring. The well-being ALNG which is the first plant of its kind metres, then drilling horizontally to join of personnel working on the project is to be fed only from associated oil and gas the pipelines at a mid-way point under clearly vital: Moshiri stressed that safety is fields alone, rather than just gas fields. In the river bed. The 140km pipeline conduit Chevron’s “number one priority”. other words, the plant makes use of the has a diameter of 20-22 inches and it will natural gas by-product of oil production. A contain the gas pipeline, thus protecting it Angola LNG update huge system of pipelines channels the gas from the river’s strong currents. The $10 billion ALNG plant started up towards the LNG plant. The idea behind “Everything is going well in this in 2013 but has since then experienced ALNG is to monetise the associated gas amazing project,” Ali Moshiri, president operational difficulties. There have been while reducing carbon emissions. of Chevron Africa and Latin America design and engineering problems in the gas Once the Congo River Crossing is Exploration and Production, told Universo. processing unit, but the LNG section has complete, ALNG will absorb gas from a “The drilling across is a very complicated been run successfully, Moshiri explained. network of pipelines spread over a large part of the procedure.” The plant will only start full production area of the seabed and shore. One of the According to Moshiri, the CRX1 drilling again once the issues identified have been plant’s main challenges and innovations operations on the pipeline well intersection dealt with. “We need to get it right and do it is the processing of all this natural gas that should start in mid-December and the safely,” he emphasized. arrives at different pressures. whole pipeline should be finished by the Angola LNG aims to produce 5.2 million third quarter of 2015, but he said there were metric tonnes per year of LNG and up to Mafumeira Sul on track already plans to build a second crossing 63,000 barrels per day (bpd) of natural The second of Chevron’s three major following completion of CRX1. gas liquids. projects underway is at Mafumeira Sul.

“Safety

Shutterstock / Brazuk is Chevron’s number one priority” – Ali Moshiri, president of Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production

10 SONANGOL UNIVERSO OIL MAJOR Satellite image of the River Congo River Congo data

41,000 230 cubic metres per second 117 metres flow rate metres maximum depth of at estuary world’s deepest estuary depth where river crossing is located

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610 length (second-longest 140 metres river in Africa after Nile) km vertical depth of drilling length of pipeline before pipeline under River laying Congo 14,500 km

length of Congo’s navigable shipping routes

DECEMBER 2014 11 Corbis OIL MAJOR

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The $5.6 billion integrated offshore project activity around the project at the moment, The two countries will be co-operating in consists of a central oil and gas processing with 1,000 workers on-site. oil production in the Angola-Republic of the unit and an accommodation platform. There Platform construction began in the third Congo Joint Development Area. will also be two wellhead platforms, 121km quarter of 2013 and pipeline construction at “As the first cross-border development of subsea pipelines, 34 producing wells and the end of 2013. in the region, Lianzi represents a unique 16 water injection wells. Mafumeira Sul is co-operative approach to shared offshore designed to produce 150,000 bpd of oil and Lianzi field firsts resources and may serve as a model for 350 million cubic feet per day of natural gas. The third of Chevron’s eye-catching new the development of similar cross-border Chevron is taking advantage of the weather ventures boasts a number of ‘firsts’. It is the fields between the two countries,” said window stretching from November 2014 first joint project with another West African Ali Moshiri. through the first quarter of 2015 to place country: Angola’s neighbour, the Republic of Chevron’s overall interest in the Lianzi mobile equipment at the site. the Congo. In fact, it is the first cross-border Unitization Zone is 31.25 per cent. Total According to Moshiri, there is much oil development anywhere in West Africa. controls 36.75 per cent and other shares are held by Eni (10 per cent), Sonangol P&P (10 per cent), SNPC (7.5 per cent), and Galp (4.5 per cent). Chevron partners in Angola The Lianzi field is located 105km off the Angolan coast in a water depth of Block 0 Sonangol, Total, Eni approximately 900 metres and will have a subsea production system with a 43km- long electrically heated flowline to obviate Block 14 Sonangol, Total, Eni, Galp Energia, Inpex blockages, as hydrates can congeal at low temperatures. This will be the first use of this groundbreaking technology at this Mafumeira Sonangol, Total, Eni water depth. The pipeline will transport oil to the Benguela-Belize-Lobito-Tomboco (BBLT) platform in Block 14. Lianzi has Lianzi Sonangol, Total, Eni, Galp, SNPC a design capacity of 46,000 bpd of oil.

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Chevron uses local expertise

There are lots of Angolans making successful careers in Chevron, and they also have options outside Angola

DECEMBER 2014 13 Shutterstock OIL MAJOR

Republic of “Everything is the Congo going well in this amazing Atlantic Ocean project”

Angola – Ali Moshiri (Cabinda) Nemba Ali Moshiri and his Angolan giraffe sculptures

Block 0 Congo River Crossing Pipeline DRC

Angola Block 14 LNG

Angola Brazuk Ltd

Drilling has already begun and first oil Moshiri said the Angolanisation rate at There is already a significant Angolan is slated for late 2015. There will be four Chevron was now around the 89–90 per workforce there”, he noted. producing wells, three water injection wells cent level. The company is the largest and subsea tiebacks to an existing platform international investor-owned energy Chevron in Angola... in Block 14. company employer in Angola, with more Chevron’s subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Apart from CRX1, Mafumeira Sul and than 3,400 Angolan employees. Company (CABGOC) drilled its first well in Lianzi, Chevron is also very busy elsewhere “There are lots of Angolans making Angola in 1958 and made its first offshore in its Block 0 and Block 14 holdings, said successful careers in Chevron, and they discovery in 1966 in Block 0. This block is Ali Moshiri. “The main priority is to focus also have options outside Angola. Eunice still in service today and has so far yielded on economically increasing production Carvalho, country manager in Brazil, is an more than 4 billion barrels. in Angola. We also need to do this to keep Angolan,” he pointed out. Most of Chevron’s drilling operations Angola LNG full – it needs maximum He also said ALNG was offering are off Cabinda province in Blocks 0 and capacity,” he explained. many training opportunities. “We’re an Block 14 further west. The company also international company, and we like to has a production share in offshore Block 2 Angolans in Chevron... move experience around our operations. and onshore in the Fina Sonangol Texaco As far as personnel are concerned, That means using our knowledge of LNG. (FST) concession area. p

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Chevron’s proud record in Angola

starts Angola 1930s business selling Texaco products

drills first oil 1958 in Angola

makes first 1966 offshore discovery

begins Kuito, 1999 first deepwater production

Benguela-Belize- Lobito-Tomboco 2013 project surpasses 250 million barrels

Angola LNG 2013 starts up

DECEMBER 2014 15 Shutterstock Sonangol news briefing

Sonangol and SBM set up schools ■ In Luanda there is evidence of unsafe for children, Paenal immediately corporate social responsibility strategy. growth at every turn. Newly built reacted and committed to building a In Lubango, another project skyscrapers are accommodating brand-new one. completed in December 2011 has shops and businesses, including Rallying support from a number provided a home for up to 120 orphans. those from the international oil and of partner companies, Paenal has built The orphanage has had a hugely gas industry. However, beyond the a school that will accommodate 350 positive impact on the lives of the city limits dramatic changes are also local children. Additional resources girls there, who range from toddlers taking place. Four hours from the provided include a computer room to young adults, according to Sister metropolis, the fast-developing Paenal for Information Technology classes Bernadete Ngueve, who relies on shipyard at Porto Amboim is not only and a school library. The school will the financial support of OPS (a joint making history for its pioneering work ensure that the children obtain the venture between Sonangol and SBM) on FPSOs (floating production, storage appropriate skills required for their to run it. and offloading vessels), but is also futures. Coinciding with celebrations SBM Offshore Angola financed investing in the local community. for Angola’s National Day the school construction of the purpose-built Paenal is a joint venture between was officially inaugurated by Vice- facility, which took place in Huíla Sonangol and international players Governor of Kwanza Sul, Dr Maria de province on land donated by the SBM Offshore and DSME. The Lourdes Veiga, on November 17. Archdiocese of Lubango. The girls company’s concern for, and awareness As the town of Porto Amboim gain an education at the on-site of the needs of the local community are continues to prosper, more families will school, and there are plans to expand an integral part of its presence in the arrive in the area and the need for better the building to allow 500 children from region. So when it was brought to the equipped schools is likely to increase. neighbouring villages to attend. Paenal attention of management that the local Paenal plans to fund other schools also intends to provide IT and English school was in disrepair and potentially in the future as part of its dedicated language training at the school.

Porto Amboim school Paenal – participating companies: Paenal (sponsor) Heerema (library) Chevron (prefab building with part-funding by Paenal) Conduril (civil works) PIC (furniture for teaching rooms) Sodexo (computer room, computers, desks) SPIE (desks, chairs, blackboards) CG Africa (football and basketball court) Yuri Cazanga, the assistant engineer Movex (building construction) who project-managed the construction Sonnel (one year’s maintenance and cleaning) of the orphanage

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International report sees rise in Angolan oil

■ Angola is set to replace Nigeria, albeit only temporarily, as Africa’s leading oil producer, according to an International Energy Agency report in October. The IEA forecast Angola will overtake Nigeria from around 2016, but Nigeria may bounce back in the mid- 2020s. The change in positions is partly the result of an expected increase in production in Angola, but is mainly due to domestic issues in Nigeria. The report estimated that Nigeria currently loses 150,000 barrels per day to oil theft, the equivalent of $5 billion per year, which has led investors to postpone decisions. Shutterstock Strategic deal between Sonangol and Eni New oil ■ Sonangol board president, Francisco de Lemos José Maria, and Italy’s Eni CEO Claudio discovery Descalzi signed a strategic oil and gas agreement on November 17. ■ Sonangol partner, the Italian firm Eni reported As part of the pact, the two a new oil discovery off the coast of Angola in companies will jointly study the September. Eni estimated the new deepwater potential of non-associated gas discovery in Block 15/06 contained 300 million in Angola’s Lower Congo Basin. barrels of oil. State-controlled Eni is the biggest The idea is to analyse the best Claudio Descalzi and foreign oil and gas producer in Africa and, under options for obtaining value for Francisco de Lemos José Maria (right) its new CEO Claudio Descalzi, is focusing its the gas both at home and abroad. business on exploration. The Sonangol-Eni partnership will benefit from Eni’s proprietary expertise “This new find exemplifies the results and experience in developing gas resources. we can achieve by applying leading-edge “This agreement will strengthen the prolific cooperation between technologies to exploration, and substantiates Eni and Sonangol, confirming Angola as one of the key countries for the the decision to refocus Eni on key oil and gas company’s organic growth strategy”, Descalzi said. “In the coming years, competences,” Descalzi said. Angola will become one of the most important oil and gas hubs for Eni’s Eni is the operator of Block 15/06, with a 35 sub-Saharan activities”. per cent stake. Sonangol P&P holds 30 per cent, Eni has been in Angola since 1980 and currently has an equity SSI Fifteen Limited has 25 per cent, and Falcon production of approximately 80,000 barrels of oil per day. It is also the Oil Holding Angola SA and Statoil Angola have operator in the upcoming start-up of the deep water Block 15/06 West Hub 5 per cent each. project, which is due to commence by the end of 2014.

DECEMBER 2014 17 Sonangol news briefing

Sonangol stands out at Rio Expo ■ Sonangol pulled out all the stops with its eye-catching Sonangol’s sleek stand stand at Rio Oil & Gas 2014 Expo and Conference, one of at Riocentro the largest oil industry events in the world, in September. Over 47,000 people attended the site at Riocentro in Rio de Janeiro city in the event’s 17th edition. The theme of the Expo and Conference was ‘The New Geopolitical Scenario: Overcoming the Challenges’. The futuristic Sonangol stand was designed to have an impact. Its dynamic sinuous lines and two floors linked by a sweeping staircase, together with its strong colours gave it a strong Angolan and modern identity. The stand also emphasised the company’s commitment to technological innovation and respect for the environment. During the expo, 828 meetings were held with 176 suppliers and 37 anchor companies. A total of 652 technical papers were also presented in oral and poster sessions. The conference registered an attendance of some 3,800 delegates from 31 countries. In the exhibition, visitors could learn about the main innovations of the sector in the booths of more than 1,000 participating companies. Of these exhibitors, 72 were debuting at the event. The fair also boasted 14 international pavilions, two of them taking part for the first time: Singapore and Poland. New crude deal with Pertamina Girassol on the ■ Indonesia’s state energy firm Pertamina is to import crude oil from Angola, the country’s energy minister Sudirman Said announced in late October. Indonesia is Southeast road to excellence Asia’s largest economy and has ■ Sonangol healthcare subsidiary Clínica Girassol held its second congress ‘Girassol growing demand for energy. 2014’, at Luanda’s Talatona Convention Centre in October. The theme of the event “The government-to-government was ‘Healthcare towards Excellence, Technology and Humanisation’. discussions have concluded. It will The aim of Girassol 2014 was to offer a panorama of the best knowledge be a business-to-business [deal]. The available in healthcare and also to provide a space for discussion between health agreement today will still be high level - professionals in Angola and those from the countries invited. The focus was on the at a global level,” the minister explained. use of new technologies in clinical practice. Minister Said did not reveal how Around 2,000 delegates took part in the congress, which much crude would be involved in the covered cardiology, infertility, mother and child health and deal but, in return for the imports, intensive care, medicine, video surgery, oncology and infirmaries Sonangol is expected to invest in a among other topics. refinery in Indonesia. The first Clínica Girassol gathering was held in 2012.

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Sonangol engineer wins SPE award chemists, economists, managers and educators. Its library contains more than 50,000 technical papers, while products of SPE conferences and periodicals are made available to the entire industry. These papers are now electronically archived. The organisation’s head office is located in Dallas, Texas, and it also has offices in Houston, Calgary, London, Dubai, Moscow and Kuala Lumpur. Any oil industry professional worldwide can become a member.

Angola chapter There are also university student chapters in many countries. The first such chapter in Angola was set up at Jean Piaget University and was officially inaugurated on October 31, 2014. Others are due to be formed Tako Koning presents the award to Engineer Cruz (on the right) next year at the Catholic University and at Agostinho Neto University. University student members have ■ Abel Claudino Cruz, a Sonangol Africa. The SPE’s Africa region has about access to the SPE’s technical papers and Pesquisa e Producão drilling completions 4,000 members. The Angola section is can attend the monthly meetings, which engineer, has won the Society of extremely proud that Cruz was able to are held in the AAA Building on Avenida Petroleum Engineers’ (SPE) African beat off strong competition to land this Lenine in Luanda. Regional Service award. It was presented prestigious award. The Angola section of the SPE first at a special event organised by the Angola Engineer Cruz was given the award began to hold meetings on an informal section of the SPE in August. in recognition of his role as a very active basis at Cabinda Gulf Oil’s base in The SPE is a not-for-profit professional member of the board of directors of the Malongo, Cabinda, in 1982. This branch organisation founded in the USA in 1957 Angola section for the past 10 years. He was officially inaugurated in 1986, and whose mission is to disseminate and exchange was also involved in organising two of the monthly meetings have been held on a technical knowledge on the exploration, SPE’s advanced technology workshops, continuous basis since then. A volunteer development and production of oil and gas held recently in Luanda. “The award board of directors is responsible for resources and related technologies for the belongs not only to me but to all Angola’s the activities of the SPE in Angola. public benefit and to provide opportunities SPE members. On receiving this SPE Over the years, many distinguished for individuals to advance their technical and award I would like to thank Sonangol, Angolan engineers have graced the professional competence. in particular the executive commission board, including Joaquim David, former The society has sections in all of of Sonangol P&P,” said Cruz. The SPE CEO of Sonangol and former Minister the Africa countries where oil production provides a global forum for oil and of Finance; António Orfão, current and exploration is taking place, including natural gas exploration and production, CEO of the Angola LNG Project; and Nigeria, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, and a professional hub for more than Ruben Costa, current CEO of Sonagás Egypt, Tunisia, Uganda and South 124,000 engineers, geoscientists, (Sonangol Natural Gas).

This article was contributed by Tako Koning, a Canadian petroleum geologist and long-term resident of Luanda. He has served since 1998 as Programme chairperson of SPE Angola’s board of directors.

DECEMBER 2014 19 Sonangol USA SONANGOL USA: NEW ERA NEW CLIENTS Crude oil sales to the United States are tumbling as the country taps its own huge deposits more effectively. Sonangol’s oil traders are facing the challenge of finding new clients in the Americas for Angolan oil

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Fracking in California

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onangol USA, the Angolan oil According to Almeida, Sonangol USA’s clients, both existing and new, to explain company’s trading subsidiary for latest sales efforts are concentrated on Sonangol marketing abilities and Angolan the Americas, is living in interesting Canada, the US West Coast and South crude qualities and to understand times. From its Houston, Texas- America. The company has already built individual client needs,” she added. Sbased office, Sonangol USA has a front-row network relationships with these potential Notwithstanding America’s new view of the radical changes underway in clients through industry meetings and oil boom, Angola’s oil exports to the the United States, which are shaking up the events, but is aware they have current and United States had already been falling as global oil and gas market. long-standing supply chains, free-trade alternative emerging markets proved more Thanks to the extensive use of more agreements, local sources or qualities that alluring. China took 45 per cent of Angola’s efficient recovery methods, generally have been in these systems for a long time. 783,000 barrels per day (bpd) oil exports in known as fracking, the United States is “Sonangol USA understands the 2013, followed by India with 12 per cent. sharply boosting yields of oil and gas from dynamic oil supply pattern shifts that Taiwan was the third-largest importer of its vast, once declining, onshore fields. As have occurred because of the shale oil and Angolan oil, and the United States, the it is the world’s largest economy and major Canadian oil booms. Indeed, American biggest customer a few years ago, occupied oil and gas importer, this has already meant shale oil and Canadian production is only fourth place. sharp falls in US fuel prices and imports. impacting global oil flows,” she said. CEO Almeida, however, is confident “The biggest market challenge is “Still, Sonangol USA is responsible that there will always be room in the to try to find new clients, but we’re for developing outlets for Sonangol crude US market for Angolan oil owing to its confident we will do so and Sonangol cargo sales in the Americas. It is our top qualities. It has heavy and sweet grades will be strengthened as a result,” said priority to reach all regions there. Selling that permit its successful blending with Elma Pegado de Almeida, Sonangol USA’s sweet crude oil cargoes into the global local grades, whereas US oil from shale is president and CEO, whose team faces the marketplace is a highly competitive and characteristically light and sweet and often task of identifying alternative outlets for aggressive business. Sonangol USA is requires blending with other grades. Angolan crude. dedicated to working with all American “Many American refineries have

Houston by night

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renewed interest in Angolan grades experience. As an example of the shake-up because of the economic advantages these it has caused, he pointed to the fact that qualities provide in refinery blending and Nigeria, for the first time since 1986, has processing, especially with the abundant not managed to export a single barrel to the supplies of extra-light sweet shale oil United States. “Texas alone now produces from Bakken [North Dakota] and Eagle a massive 3.3 million bpd.” This is almost Ford [Texas] deposits. Angolan crude twice Angola’s current output. qualities assist refiners to achieve optimal Despite the challenges, Wayland economics,” she explained. sees reasons for optimism in sales of David B. Wayland, crude oil and Angolan oil to the United States apart trading manager at Sonangol USA for over from its inherent qualities. “There are four years, agreed. “Angolan oil is a good good prospects of selling crude to the US fit. Its variety and quality combines well West Coast and Hawaii. Canada is also a with fracked oil. possible new outlet.” “Globally, fracking is the biggest Sonangol’s efforts to find new buyers development in the oil business,” and raise crude exports in Latin America said Wayland, who has over 40 years’ have made some headway. The company

“Globally, fracking is the biggest development in the oil business” – David B. Wayland, crude oil and trading manager at Sonangol USA

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already has customers in the region, such Looking forward, Wayland sees Sonangol to become the largest oil and gas producer as Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. USA working more closely in concert with in the world. Oil trading and exploration co- Sonangol Shipping as a means to leverage The writing is on the wall and it is operation with Brazil is well established. its oil trading and attract fresh buyers. clear: oil-producing companies serving In addition, Chile signed an agreement in “It is important Sonangol USA remains North America have to adapt to this new August 2014 whereby Sonangol will supply attentive to client needs and takes time to situation. The oil that major exporters local oil company ENAP with 9 million develop new partners. Our goal remains to such as Nigeria once sold to the United barrels of crude in 2015, three times more sell Angolan crude to valued customers and States will now have to find a market than previously, thus making Angola achieve the best possible market price for elsewhere, and this will contribute to Chile’s largest supplier. Sonangol crude oil sales,” declares Elma falling world oil prices. Apart from US fracking, oil trader Pegado de Almeida. There is hope, however, that new Wayland identified the other big oil market- emerging markets will pick up the slack, movers as China and India, both of which Changing oil world especially the huge energy-hungry are already receiving larger shipments of The US oil and gas market is changing, economies of China and India, where Angolan oil and have refineries capable of and changing fast. Thanks to the Angola is already a major player. handling all oil grades. blistering success of fracking, the world’s US shale gas success has altered Wayland believes Angola has made largest economy is sharply reducing its the destination of liquefied natural gas great progress in consolidating its dependence on oil and gas imports. (LNG) from the Angola LNG project. reputation and has created a “trustworthy In November 2013, the White House The $10 billion LNG plant at Soyo in and safe environment” for the oil business announced that for the first time in 20 years Zaire province in Angola was originally and investors. He cited the fact that major the country was importing less oil than it destined to supply the United States, but operators such as Chevron, Exxon, BP and was producing at home. By the end of 2014 the fall in US prices has reduced demand. Total are well established in the country, oil imports are expected to fall below 7 Fortunately, Angola LNG has been able to and this enhances confidence in Angola’s million bpd compared to 10 million bpd in gain much higher prices for its gas in the oil trade. 2009. In 2015, the United States is expected Far East. p

Elma Pegado de Almeida – Sonangol USA president and CEO

Elma Pegado de Almeida is a product of Sonangol’s corporate training scheme. She joined Sonangol’s finance department in 1982 and holds a degree in Accountancy. In 1994/1996 she was seconded to Italian state oil company ENI. In Milan, she concluded her master’s degree in Economics, Energy and Environment. She has lived in the United States since 2001, where she initially took English classes in Austin, Texas. In 2007 she was nominated Sonangol USA’s employee of the year.

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Inácio Bueti - Holding to account

Huambo-born Inácio Bueti is finance manager at Sonangol USA. He has been based in Houston since 2008, having originally studied Accountancy and Finance at Scotland’s Aberdeen University. Bueti’s role is to ensure that finance funding is available for operational needs, and he also evaluates customer creditworthiness. Until now there have been no defaults, he said with satisfaction. Although he comes from an upstream background, Bueti is happy that he gets to handle all aspects of accounts at Sonangol USA. “Here the accounting is more general. There’s a good budgeting process. I forecast expenses and provide advice to meet budget needs so that there are no delays in office operations. I am also involved in relations with the banks. Sonangol gives me good support in my work.” The 34-year-old Bueti likes being in Texas: “It’s the epicentre of the oil industry. Houston is the oil capital of the world. It’s a good place to be for oil.” He also sees Houston as a good place for leisure and somewhere he can indulge his appreciation of theatre and music, especially the guitar and drums. Brazuk Ltd

“Selling sweet crude oil cargoes into the global marketplace is a highly competitive and aggressive business” – Elma Pegado de Almeida

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Eunice João - 24/7 service

Whatever the future of oil sales graduating in Computer Science to the United States, Sonangol at Salford University near USA’s Houston HQ will continue Manchester, England. to help provide the round the She moved to Houston 10 clock coverage for operations it years ago as an operations analyst shares with Sonangol’s offices and became operations manager in London and Singapore. These in 2011. She enjoys her job, which offices, strategically placed in she describes as “never boring three important time zones, and very motivating”. ensure that any cargo of crude “Sonangol’s a good company shipped throughout the world is to work for and Houston a good supervised around the clock. place to work.” João says. Eunice João is Sonangol She also derives great USA’s operations manager. In satisfaction from training up tandem with her colleagues in new Sonangol employees in her Europe and Asia, she oversees department and has mentored some 25 cargoes a month. Her seven people so far. role is one of troubleshooting in Life in Houston agrees with the period from the sale of the oil her. The weather is good and suits to receipt of payment. her love of outdoor activities, Born in Luanda’s Maianga such as riding bikes, jogging “Sonangol’s district, João has been with and hiking. She also enjoys Sonangol for 18 years. She networking and having friends started her career in Sonangol’s from all over the world including, a good IT Department in 1996 after of course, ex-pat Angolans. company to work for and Houston a good place to work.” – Eunice João, operations manager at Sonangol USA Brazuk Ltd

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What is fracking?

Non-conventional oil recovery conventional oil recovery method, methods, broadly lumped together horizontal drilling, which provides under the name ‘fracking’, are the access to oil reservoirs. One reasons behind the current US oil significant advantage of horizontal and gas boom. These techniques drilling is that it minimises vertical exploit large untapped reserves in drilling through non-productive existing oil and gas fields, mainly in geological layers. Instead, the drill the southern state of Texas, in the is maintained in the geological north in Montana and North Dakota, layer where there are already and Pennsylvania in the east. proven oil and gas deposits, Fracking, or hydraulic ensuring continuity of flows. fracturing, is the process of drilling According to the US Energy into the earth, then directing Information Administration, just a high-pressure water mixture one per cent of the country’s containing sand and chemicals natural gas came from shale in into the rock to release the gas 2001. This rocketed to 20 times that inside. This allows trapped gas to in 2010 and is forecast to reach 45 flow out of the well. per cent in 2038. Consequently, US Fracking is often used in reliance on imports is now down conjunction with another non- from 60 per cent to 34 per cent.

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As Sonangol’s shipping joint venture with Sweden’s Stena Bulk now nears its 10th anniversary, Universo takes stock of what it has achieved to date

Sonangol Huíla at sea

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onangol Marine Services and The pool has access to Swedish shipping giant Stena Bulk established the Stena-Sonangol Suezmax Pool (SSSP) joint venture a fleet of 23 modern Suezmax Sin 2005. The aim was (and still is) to maximise profits for Pool tonnage and attract owners of quality Suezmax tonnage tankers and recently completed to join the Pool. Stena Bulk’s long history, experience a fleet renewal programme and size has allowed it to be an ideal partner for Sonangol Shipping and provide both professional commercial their position rather than head fruitlessly The most important client consid- and operational on-the-job training and home to base. erations when choosing a carrier are cost employment opportunities with the Pool The SSSP has access to a common and safety, and the SSSP is able to meet and enable Sonangol to help Angola client base, and the client base has access both client expectations. Currently the develop its seafaring culture. to all of the vessels. SSSP commercially manages 23 modern Sonangol made the strategic decision “We have a fleet with comprehensive Suezmax tankers, the latest additions to to participate in the wider global shipping [geographic] coverage. The shipper needs the fleet arrived in 2013. market as a semi-autonomous player to be a one-shop stop. We have the critical The oldest Sonangol Suezmax in rather than concentrate exclusively on mass and are big enough to get the call,” the SSSP was built in 2000 and the last carrying only Angola’s daily oil output. Mark Heater, president of Sonangol Marine Sonangol Suezmax to join the SSSP The logistical thinking behind the SSSP Services, told Universo in his office in fleet was Sonangol Cabinda in 2013. is similar to that of a co-operative of truck Houston’s Energy Corridor in Texas. All the ships are double-hulled to meet drivers. After making a delivery, drivers On the wall opposite his desk a wide environmental protection requirements in may find themselves in an area where it computer screen shows the details and case of accident and to benefit from lower makes much more economic sense to pick positions of all the SSSP ships. They appear insurance premiums. Sonangol’s newer up another load and take advantage of quite evenly distributed across the seas. Suezmaxs are also designed to be energy efficient and allow fuel savings of around 15 per cent compared to the older Sonangol A Sonangol LNG carrier Suezmaxs. The Sonangol Cabinda is about 20 per cent more fuel efficient than the Sonangol Luanda (built in 2000). Performance of all of the SSSP’s vessels is closely supervised so that they make the best use of energy and contribute to profitability. “The SSSP very closely monitors the ships, and we note lower energy use because payout is directly related to consumption efficiency,” Heater explained. He believes most of the savings from design modifications is at a stage of diminishing returns and the ‘low- hanging fruit’ has already been picked. Nevertheless, he believes that Sonangol Shipping’s most recent Suezmax ships, ordered in late 2014, will continue to show performance and efficiency improvements. A measure of Sonangol Shipping’s increasingly sophisticated workforce is the fact that it employs Oscar Muteba, a 38-year-old Angolan naval architect who trained in Genoa, Italy. He has contributed

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to construction work on several pool Suzemax rather than Very Large Crude Asked if the boom in US domestic oil vessels, his first being the Sonangol Namibe Carrier tankers: “For the same amount of and gas production would affect freight back in 2006. funding, we could build more Suezmaxs, rates, Heater replied, “Will there be an The SSSP currently has yet no concrete and more rather than fewer ships would impact? Yes. But it’s hard to say what it plans to expand its pool beyond a allow Sonangol to train additional sea staff.” will be – of most interest to a ship-owner maximum of 30 ships, but as vessels age it Rates for shipping can be volatile, is the question ‘Will the global ton miles will have to replace them. so managing a fleet requires both luck travelled increase or decrease?’ The jury and skill. The highest average monthly is out.” Swelling numbers earnings of the Sonangol Suezmax fleet was The task facing all shippers is a tough Sonangol Shipping requires increasing achieved by the Sonangol Namibe in July one, given increasing competition in an numbers of qualified Angolan personnel, 2008 at $84,160/day. The lowest average unstable market with many factors to and the good news is that they are coming. monthly earnings of the fleet came from take into account, such as excess tonnage There are many students in Sonangol’s the Sonangol Kizomba in October 2013: availability and the effects of depressed training pipeline, but currently few of them just $10,150/day, Heater said. economies on trade. have substantial maritime experience – this Heater has calculated that the SSSP Owners have to decide when it is best paucity has meant that the company has manages to obtain vessel utilisation rates and cheapest to build new ships, and then had to deploy the small number with such “above the industry average”. This has not must take a view on whether there will be experience onshore in managerial positions. been easy to achieve but the combination cargoes when they are launched. of quality tonnage, worldwide coverage Sonangol Shipping and the SSSP are Sonangol and Suezmax (Houston, Gothenburg and Singapore) and both training up their staffs to meet these According to Mark Heater, there are two an excellent reputation with the market has difficult challenges. We wish them well. reasons why Sonangol chose to build gone a long way to generating these results. Boa viagem! p

Aguinaldo António Pedro – Chartering experience

The opportunities for the He analyses spot market advancement of Angolans in the conditions, seeks suitable charter Brazuk Ltd SSSP are significant. Aguinaldo cargoes and negotiates freight António Pedro, a 36-year-old from rates. “I have a lot of responsibility. the Cassaquel district of Luanda, is The value of the vessel may be $50 an excellent example. million and the freight cost $3-$4 He studied for a year in India million with a crew of around 25. followed by a year in Scotland at “Working for Stena Bulk City of Glasgow College - and after Sonangol is very rewarding. There training reached the post of second are so many opportunities. You can mate at sea. He spent nine years at become anything you want,” he sea altogether, a relative rarity in told Universo. Angola, where very few workers Pedro has always found life have such long experience. at sea interesting. “The crew is He joined the SSSP in November varied and you may be working 2009 as a commercial operator and with Indians, Eastern Europeans spent over two years in Houston and Filipinos, so you are obliged to on the operation’s desk. He then speak English,” he said. moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, to This seaman is proud that learn and work on the chartering Angola is the only African country side, where he stayed over a year to have its own pool. altogether. Pedro was the first “I would definitely encourage Angolan to be seconded there. Angolans to follow my career path.”

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Oil travels first class with Stena-Sonangol

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Oil tanker types

Ultra Large Crude Carriers (ULCCs) The largest oil tanker ever built was Seawise Giant. This 458-metre-long was indeed a giant. It weighed well over 560,000 dry weight tonnes (dwt) and needed a draft of 24.6 metres. Owing to its size, it was not only too big for the Suez and Panama canals, but could not even use the English Channel when fully laden. Built in Japan in 1979, the vessel has since been scrapped. Currently the largest ULCCs in service are TI Europe and TI Oceania, each with 441,893dwt. They were built in 2002-03.

Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) These carriers are the most common type of ‘super tanker’. They usually weigh around 250,000dwt and are able to carry 2 million barrels of crude oil.

Suezmax Suezmax tankers get their name from their capability of using the Suez Canal. Maximum draft is 20.1 metres and they typically weigh around 160,000dwt and have a width or ‘beam’ of 50 metres. Usual capacity is around 1 million barrels. Stena Bulk Sonangol’s Sonangol Rangel is 157,756dwt and has a 48-metre beam.

Panamax Panamax are named for to their ability to traverse the Panama Canal. Maximum draft is 12 metres, but there are also length restrictions (294 metres) as ships must use locks on the canal. A bridge also causes restrictions depending on the variable water depth.

Aframax This is a ship size which has nothing to do with Africa! An Aframax is an oil tanker smaller than 120,000 tonnes and with a beam of 32 metres. ‘Afra’ stands for Average Freight Rate Assessment, a tanker classification introduced by Shell in 1954 to standardise contract terms. Aframax tankers can serve most ports in the world and are optimal for short- and medium- haul crude deliveries.

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Stena Bulk Sonangol Suezmax Pool (double-hulled vessels)

NAME YEAR BUILT DWT (dry weight tonnes) STENA BULK SUNRISE 2013 159,000 STENA BULK SUPREME 2012 159,000 STENA BULK SUPERIOR 2011 159,236 AST SUNSHINE 2013 159,000 MONTESTENA BULK 2012 159,179 PRINCIMAR COURAGE 2013 158,368 PRINCIMAR INTEGRITY 2012 159,000 PRINCIMAR PRIDE 2012 158,542 SONANGOL CABINDA 2013 157,500 SONANGOL PORTO AMBOIM 2012 157,500 SONANGOL HUILA 2012 157,500 SONANGOL KALANDULA 2011 157,955 SONANGOL RANGEL 2011 157,756 SONANGOL NAMIBE 2007 158,425 SONANGOL KASSANJE 2005 158,706 SONANGOL KIZOMBA 2001 159,165 SONANGOL LUANDA 2000 159,178 ALMI NAVIGATOR 2013 149,999 ALMI EXPLORER 2013 157,786 YASA POLARIS 2009 158,475

YASA SCORPION 2010 158,475 A Suezmax passes under the YASA SOUTHERN CROSS 2010 158,475 Golden Gate Bridge

Celma Zeferino – Making oil add up

Celma Zeferino was cherry-picked as one of specialist in shipping accounts, she added with the three best Sonangol scholarship students a smile. Zeferino is responsible for the accounts completing an Accountancy degree at the of four tankers and three LNG carriers, a University of Tennessee. Her task now is to work robust workload for the 30-year-old born in Vila on the complex accounting procedures involved Alice, Luanda. with the Sonangol Shipping fleet. As part of her preparation for this role, she “Each vessel is treated individually for spent time training in Luanda and Dubai. accounting purposes, and the work is very Zeferino told Universo that one thing that technical and demanding,” she explained. pleased her very much was seeing more It does however mean she is developing as a Angolans now working in her area.

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João Almeida – Keeping watch

João Almeida is a general manager the fleet’s key performance at Sonangol Marine Services, with indicators and monitors the technical responsibility for the ships around the clock. He also day-to-day running of shipping receives daily detailed reports so operations. Almeida, from the he can be promptly made aware Comandante Valódia area of of any deviations from normal Luanda, is a 38-year-old with many running that may require action. weighty tasks on his shoulders. Almeida is another relatively

He was promoted to his present veteran sailor among the Stena position at the end of 2013 and youthful group that makes up has to ensure the fleet is operated the bulk of Angolan seafarers. efficiently, safely and with due He was part of the first Angolan concern for the environment. cadet intake at City of Glasgow “The decisions I have to take College in 1998. Previously, he involve a lot of money and lots of was Sonangol’s representative risks, and they have to be made in in Korea overseeing the a very short time on a daily basis, construction of tanker Sonangol but we’ve been very successful. Rangel during the six months it We’ve had near misses, but took to complete. they have been controlled and Almeida said his greatest accidents have been avoided. satisfaction has been seeing Our fleet is 15 per cent more fuel his former juniors trained and efficient than it was 5 to 10 years succeeding in their jobs, such as ago,’ he said with a hint of relief. chief engineer Francisco Miranda

He keeps a close eye on who he is now managing. Brazuk Ltd

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Bernabe Ndinofina, WAMS president and CEO

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ernabe Ndinofina is a big, hearty as well as Mining. Other favoured courses man who hails from Angola’s include Geography, Chemistry, Geophysics, southern desert province of Computer Science and Mechatronics, Cunene. The stifling heat and a hybrid subject where electronics and Bhumidity outside his cool bright suite of mechanics meet. This last discipline is offices hold no fears for him as he surveys Sonangol’s important and useful for specialists in the wide flat sea of dark greenery that is remote-controlled subsea wellheads. George Bush Park on the edge of the mostly To date, WAMS has mostly allocated grey concrete city of Houston, Texas. scholars scholars to places in around 80 US Ndinofina is president and CEO of West universities, but in recent years it has Africa Management Services, LLC (WAMS), included two universities in Canada. Sonangol’s scholarship management are directed This move north of the border is part company, which has been operating in the of the company’s efforts to diversify its United States since 1999. service suppliers. Canada’s prestigious The role of WAMS is to select and towards the Alberta University, with its reputation monitor the performance of university for producing excellent oil engineers, is a faculties in US and Canadian universities destination for some of Sonangol’s best so that Sonangol’s scholars are directed best places students in Mathematics, Physics and towards the best places and courses to Chemistry. Canadian universities have study their subjects. Once the students are accepted 53 Angolan students via WAMS enrolled in the universities, WAMS monitors and courses since 2013. This growth in student numbers them to see how well they are progressing. has benefited from the assistance and close A second and extremely important to study links WAMS enjoys with the Canadian function is to support the everyday needs Consulate in Luanda. of their students, who are often away from home for the very first time and a very long their subjects Only the best will do way from their families. WAMS has the task of finding more and more university places for a Specialist subjects growing number of scholarship winners Reflecting its goals as an oil company, as Sonangol expands to meet the Sonangol mostly selects courses that are needs of its increasingly technically related to Civil and Mechanical Engineering sophisticated workforce.

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Luis Costa, Academic & Logistics entrance examinations and rigorous department manager selection tests for the scholarship scheme. University courses are constantly monitored What WAMS does for quality and their rankings revised. According to Ndinofina, improved West Africa Management testing at Sonangol has led to a rise in Services, LLC has been in candidate standards. This comes as no existence for over 15 years. surprise, as Sonangol selected just 500 WAMS originally operated in students out a total of 14,000 examination Dubuque, Iowa, under American candidates aiming to study in the United ownership, but since June 2004, States and Canada in 2013. the company has relocated US universities with Angolan students to Houston, and is now under include Texas Tech University in Lubbock, direct Sonangol control. University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas WAMS undertakes the A&M University, Louisiana and University placement of Angolan student of Denver. in US and Canadian higher educational colleges on behalf Brazuk Ltd In loco parentis of Sonangol EP. In September 2013, the number of WAMS also exercises a very important Although mainly functioning students passing through the hands of pastoral role and provides a wide range of as a scholarship support WAMS’ Houston office jumped from 200 to support services for the young Angolans, company for Sonangol, WAMS 500. By 2017, the numbers will more than who mostly have never travelled abroad also offers these services to double again to 1,200 as Sonangol expands its before. These include a welcoming other companies, organisations pool of graduates and potential employees. reception and orientation; help with and individual sponsors who In the period 2004–13, of the 400 visas, tickets and travel arrangements, wish to place their students graduates emerging from the Sonangol accommodation and health insurance in the United States, including scholarship scheme in the United States, as well as assistance with opticians and those doing short-term courses most went on to work for Sonangol and dentists. In emergencies, students can such as English Language. the Angolan government. One student, a count on WAMS, which provide support in WAMS specialists work with graduate in Architecture some five years cases such as bereavements. academic and international ago, is now deputy governor of one of The organisation is called upon to advisors at the universities its Angola’s southern provinces. stand in for the parents of students abroad. students attend. WAMS manages Sonangol is keen to select the best The course completion and success rate of the financial, housing and health students and place them in the highest- Sonangol students in the United States and aspects of student scholarships rated universities. To achieve this goal, Canada is testimony that WAMS is doing its as well as individuals’ living Sonangol conducts highly competitive job well. p expenses. It also deals with their travel requirements and secures any necessary visas. In Top students: Aurea Dias, José Van-dunem, Bruna Sousa and Ariadne Dias addition, the company organises annual student meetings where students get together and report to their sponsors. WAMS surveys the colleges on an annual basis to see how they perform in the key subjects Sonangol is seeking and adjusts its student allocation policy accordingly.

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Bernabe Ndinofina – World experience Brazuk Ltd

Bernabe Ndinofina was born in after seven long days aboard, his and has suffered isolation, hunger Nehome, 150km from Ngiva, also money ran out. In order to buy and disease in a foreign land. known as Ondjiva, in Cunene food and survive the journey, he If anyone should have empathy province. He is no stranger was so desperate that he was and sympathy for the new young to studying abroad, and his forced to sell his watch! arrivals in Houston, then surely varied academic life experience While in Russia he contracted this is the person. has equipped him very well malaria and had to be nursed One hopes that no Angolan psychologically for the demands of back to health, surrounded by students will have to suffer the the role he now performs at WAMS. staff whose language he could hardships that the CEO did, and Ndinofina had a traumatic not speak. WAMS will certainly be available baptism of fire during his own All was not gloom and doom, to help out should they face any student career, after he was though; while he was there, he met such difficulties. awarded an Angolan government his future wife. Bernabe Ndinofina joined scholarship to the former Soviet Prior to his trip to Russia, Sonangol in 1995 and worked as a Union. He was sent from Moscow Ndinofina also spent four years crude oil trader from 1996 to 1998, by train to Tashkent Institute studying in Cuba. when he was posted to Sonangol in the very distant republic Later in life and now working USA in Houston. He was appointed of Uzbekistan, where he was for Sonangol, this much-travelled to his current position at WAMS to spend six years studying Angolan was posted to England to in 2004 and oversaw the move of Russian and Economic Planning. study English for 6 months. operations first from Dubuque, Unfortunately for the young So Ndinofina has studied Iowa, to Sonangol USA’s office in Angolan, he was given just 10 abroad in three greatly contrasting Houston and then to the dedicated rubles (a few dollars) to cover his climatic and economic situations, office WAMS occupies today, just food expenses on the train and, has learned three new languages a 10-minute drive away.

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ASSET INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT: AIMING HIGH A substantial portion of Angola’s oil and gas production assets is aging, and output is tailing off. Sonangol engineer Geraldo André Raposo Ramos guides us through the scale of the problem and the remedies

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il and gas production “Sonangol EP needs to reinforce AIM equipment needs to be kept in good condition throughout its lifetime. Asset integrity to reduce production loss Omanagement (AIM) is the term used in industry to describe the steps needed to by delaying the decline and ensure this is the case. All major oil companies, including extending the lifetime of its facilities” Sonangol, view AIM as a major concern. “Sonangol EP needs to reinforce AIM – Geraldo Ramos to reduce production loss by delaying the decline and extending the lifetime of its facilities,” says Engineer Ramos. shutdowns, production losses and delays, objectives, procedures, standards, codes Oil producers have to make decisions and keep the facilities in good condition and systems of data control. This will help on how they maintain and dispose of their until the end of the production sharing to prevent, detect, control and mitigate assets. A good analogy would be with a car. agreement when these facilities are handed infrastructure deterioration. It will not Normally someone buys a car with a view over to the concessionaire (Sonangol EP). only require laws, regulations, and a well- to using it over a period of time – say, 15 Good management will allow the developed AIM programme, but it will also years. After that, they might come to the facilities to continue processing safely, be critical for Sonangol to have permanent conclusion that it isn’t worth maintaining extend the life of aging assets, and ensure and that it should be scrapped and recycled. the integrity of wells and marine/platform On the other hand, the aim might be to or marine/rig interfaces. Platforms with 30 or more conserve this asset and keep it running in Elements that affect installation safety years of production (2013) the best possible condition for as long as are fatigue, corrosion, geotechnical and possible. This is the case with vintage cars geological hazards, accidental damage, Block Platform Years where meticulously maintained cars, some extreme weather, modifications or changes over a 100 years old, have all their major to existing facilities, and marine growth. 0 GS-Alpha 45 parts renovated so that the vehicle can still Sonangol EP needs to continue perform well and even run a good race. monitoring the operators’ corrosion 0 GS-Bravo 45 The maintenance of an individual car programmes by using the cathode 0 GS-Charlie 44 and its eventual disposal probably affects protection method, corrosion inhibitors very few people; however, an oil rig or a and emulsifiers, specific coatings, filling 0 GS-Delta 44 pipeline could have negative impacts on all storage oil vessels and painting hundreds of people’s health and safety and programmes, or employment of other 0 GS-Delta Aux 44 on the environment if not managed well. technologies available on the market. Well integrity may be maintained by 0 GS-Echo 44 Angola’s asset monitoring the quality of injected water, 0 GS-Fox 42 management pressures, leaks on wells, work-over “The age of Angola’s petroleum facilities activities, chemicals injected and sand 0 GS-Hotel 36 ranges from months to 46 years. This production. For all changes and for the implies a need for more effort and a addition of new structures, Sonangol EP 0 GIP-Delta 32 good AIM programme with periodic or needs to consider the weight of topsides systematic inspections and maintenance and of new modules. 0 GIP-Fox 32 of petroleum facilities,” says Ramos. Angola is not a country with strong or Angola has 251 offshore oil structures: severe weather, but monitoring structure 0 GIP-Hotel 32 wellhead jackets, compliant towers, jack- foundations is critical because damage 2 Essungo ‘A’ 32 ups, conventional and accommodation may occur first in members and joints in platforms, tension leg platforms (TLPs), steel substructures, structural supports 0 GS-Julie 31 floating production, storage and for risers, topside structural supports, and offloading (FPSO) and floating storage equipment on lower decks. 0 GSL 31 and offloading (FSO) units, buoys and Engineer Ramos believes Sonangol EP accommodation barges. must work on laws and regulations for AIM 0 GSL-Aux 31 AIM will reduce unprogrammed to ensure the inclusion of policy, strategy, 0 GS-KILO 30

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personnel on production platforms or support for oil and gas infrastructure, areas, such as process safety, mechanical drilling rigs as well as at the engineering facilities and equipment. They offer support integrity, corrosion and metallurgy and phase of all projects. to oil companies through the conception, risk analysis. Sonangol EP’s Department of design, construction, commissioning, Management programmes are holistic; Production began drawing up an AIM operations and decommissioning phases. they deal with everything that impacts on programme with a number of different Their goal is to help effectively manage the assets, and there is clearly a community stages in 2012. corporate assets in order to gain maximum of interests with QHSE. Phase I relates to planning and value, profitability and returns while The approaches of AIM and QHSE are execution of more rigorous inspection plans safeguarding personnel, the community similarly all-embracing and they share for petroleum infrastructure. The team has and the environment. the same aims for optimum outcomes in now been enlarged by adding Sonangol’s Thorough AIM programmes incorporate terms of performance, safety and reducing Quality, Health, Safety and Environment design, inspections and maintenance environmental risk. A successful AIM (QHSE or QSSA in Portuguese) division and as well as management concepts, as all programme will maximise facility reliability, representatives of the Ministry of Petroleum. these affect infrastructure and equipment. availability and ease of maintenance Specialist companies are permitted to Therefore, specialists and engineering with a view to extending and enhancing provide AIM and lifetime management support are needed in a wide range of performance and profit. p

Engineer Geraldo Ramos Number of offshore platforms in Angola

Type of platform Qty Block

Wellhead jackets 181 0, 2, 3

Compliant tower 2 14

Jack-up 1 0

Conventional 37 0, 2, 3

Accommodation 5 0, 2

TLP 2 15

FPSO 12 0, 4/05, 14, 15, 17, 18, 31

FSO 1 3

Buoy 8 0, 14, 15, 17, 18

Accommodation barges 2 2, 3

Total 251

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Oil and service support companies in Angola

The main international oil companies (USA) under joint venture operation (Norway/UK), Cameron (USA), and GE with production sharing agreements contracts, and Cobalt (USA) under a (USA); and the main contractor drilling in Angola are ExxonMobil (USA), BP service risk agreement. companies such as Transocean (USA), (UK), Statoil (Norway), Eni (Italy), In addition, there are some technical Seadrill (Norway), Saipem (Italy) and Total (France), Maersk Oil and and service support companies such ENSCO (USA), among others. Gas (Denmark), Petrobras (Brazil), as ABB Vetco Gray (Switzerland/USA), Current oil and gas production ConocoPhillips (USA), Repsol BJ Services Company (Scotland), FMC is supported by 12 blocks with (Spain), Cobalt (USA), Chevron (USA), Technologies (France), Halliburton nine offshore and three onshore SOMOIL (Angola), Sonangol P&P (USA), Schlumberger Oilfield Services (Cabinda Sul, Fina Sonangol and (Angola), Pluspetrol (Spain), Chevron (France), Technip (France), Subsea 7 Fina Sonangol Texaco).

Blocks in production

Off Off Off Off Off Off Off Off Off On On On

Block 0 2 3 4/05 14 15 17 18 18 FS FST Cabinda Sul

Sonangol Sonangol Sonangol Operator Chevron Chevron Esso Total BP BP SOMOIL SOMOIL Pluspetrol P&P P&P P&P

Off = Offshore, On = Onshore

DECEMBER 2014 43 Shutterstock CULTURE NATIONAL SHOW TIME Angola has revived its national cultural festival, Fenacult. Universo witnessed the recent extravaganza and asks what the future holds for the event

Victor Gama plays his Acrux

44 SONANGOL UNIVERSO DECEMBER 2014 45 Rui Peralta Minister for Culture Rosa Cruz e Silva CULTURE

e will show the brand Angola to the world, to honour the legacy of our forefathers. “WThat’s what Fenacult is – the glorification of our culture,” said Minister for Culture Rosa Cruz e Silva at the opening ceremony of Fenacult (Festival Nacional de Cultura) 2014 at the 11 de Novembro National Stadium in Luanda. The festival, in only its second edition in 25 years, took place in venues across the country between August 30 and September 20. The first ever Fenacult – in 1989 – was originally intended to be repeated every four years. Recognising its importance, the Angolan Ministry for Culture has worked tirelessly for the past two years to resurrect the event. Angop Thousands attended Fenacult’s opening, at which a choir of 300 voices sang the national anthem. The ceremony featured dance choreographed by Ana in Luanda was a brilliant example of on buildings in Luanda’s city centre was Clara Guerra Marques, symbolising the innovative art that is emerging from Closed Circuit (in the Middle of Sweden), a key moments in Angolan history, from Angola. It involved the projection of video short work by Mattias Härenstam. cultural confrontations during the arrival art on buildings on Luanda’s Rainha Ginga ... The video – Closed Circuit (After Peter of the Portuguese to the recovery of Street. Petchkovsky is a video art lecturer Tillberg: In the Middle of Sweden 1972-73) national identity and the country’s drive and curated his project through Video – is, as the title suggests, a paraphrase of the for independence. It also showed the Guerrilha from Brazil. older artist’s painting. Rows of houses are new Angola, eager to develop further “Fenacult aims to build a sense of parked along a lead-gray street, which ends in the future. It was a splendid start to creative responsibility for the future. Now is in a circular pothole. We are washed down what Fenacult embodies: preservation the time to show the world the creative soul the hole, through a mouth opening and of Angola’s diverse traditional culture of Angola’s young generation,” he explained. carted around in a winding tunnel system coupled with futuristic innovation. The artist was born in North East and eventually spat out on the street again. Luanda occupied Fenacult 2014’s Angola in 1956 and has his roots in the The trek begins again. This time the journey central stage. It hosted 28 sub-festivals and Tchokwe ethnic group, which is known for ends with a plunge into something that spectacles; 25 speeches; 16 fairs, exhibitions the artistic representations of its culture. looks like an anus. Again, we fall onto the and workshops; 12 round-table discussions He started his career at the Angolan street. It goes on like this. The organic chaos and seven concerts and colloquiums. These Cinema Institute in 1980 as a filmmaker, put together with the tenacity of middle- were held at some of the capital’s historical and then studied painting at the famous class suburbia turns into a surreal, ominous landmarks, including the National Gerrit Rietveld Academy (1987–92) in pulp… Everything is familiar, and yet not. Stadium, the Congress Palace, the Angolan Amsterdam, where he currently lives. – Excerpt from a review by Sara Arvidsson Writers’ Union, the National Library and It was the first time that Video Guerrilha published at Swedish online art magazine the cultural centre Casa 70. had used its new image projection technology konsten.net Other events were held at locations that in Africa, Petchkovsky told Universo. The project also featured five Brazilian represent the capital’s modern face, such “We plan to use the same technology and 12 Angolan artists. as restaurant and club Miami Beach, Belas at future events in Angola, such as the “The audience was so creative and Conference Centre, cinema Cine Atlântico, inauguration of the new Luanda airport, inspiring during the workshops, seminars Hotel Epic Sana and the newly renovated the Museum of Science and Technology, and lectures that accompanied our project. Bay of Luanda waterfront. and the Agostinho Neto Memorial during That underlines the need to let people, the celebration of the 40th anniversary of especially Angola’s younger generation, Video art: streets ahead Angola’s independence in 2015,” he said. participate directly in innovative art Miguel Petchkovsky’s multimedia project An example of the videos projected technology,” Petchkovsky said.

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Interactive instruments of them a breathtaking piece of art in itself. and the Kalahari deserts. The Acrux is an Another highlight of Fenacult 2014 was the “The exhibition is a space for free installation of four instruments with metal award-winning exhibition INSTRMNTS by experimentation and interaction where discs and glass soundboards that resemble artist, composer and electronics engineer visitors are invited to play the instruments. spaceships. The Tipaw, an instrument Victor Gama, shown at Luanda’s National Video projections and touchpads offer with 10 ringing bowls, was inspired by the Anthropology Museum. them the opportunity to engage more Bengal tiger. Gama has been designing and building deeply with my work,” Gama told Universo. The exhibition included a performance his impressive array of instruments Fenacult’s audience had the of Gama’s latest multimedia concert, Vela since the early 1990s, blending current opportunity to play instruments such as the 6911, written for three of his instruments fabrication technologies with nature- Toha, the Tahra, the Acrux and the Tipaw. plus an ensemble of violins, violas, cellos, inspired materials and traditions. The The Toha comprises two 21-string timpani and bassoons. exhibition is laden with symbolism. diatonic harps in a single instrument with On display were more than 30 entirely two resonators. Its design was inspired by Tradition and innovation new, contemporary musical instruments the nests of the sociable weaver birds that Gama has closely collaborated with known as ‘Pangeia instrumentos’, each one inhabit the regions between the Namibe and recorded the music of artists in

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Angola’s interior for the past 20 years. The instruments’ origins are strongly influenced by the traditional musical instruments of Angola” he said. INSTRMNTS has taken Angolan culture to the rest of the world. It has enchanted audiences at the Royal Opera House in London, Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast, the Portuguese Cultural Centre in Maputo, the Fundación Carlos de Amberes in Madrid and Lisbon’s Centro Cultural de Belém, among other places. A five-year collaboration with the Kronos Quartet had its world premiere at Carnegie Hall in New York and its European premiere in Lisbon in 2010.

The play’s the thing In the realm of theatre, A Tree (Uma Árvore) by Nuno Milagre took centre stage. It was performed at Luanda’s oldest theatre, Elinga. The play was directed by Miguel Hurst and had a cast comprising Virgílio António, Helena Moreno, Yuri de Sousa, Silvio Ferreira do Nascimento and Orlando Sérgio, who is also the producer. Sérgio was born in 1960 in Malange, Angola and is known for Haircut (Corte de Cabelo,1995), The Hero (O Herói, 2004) and At the Photographer’s (No Fotógrafo, 2000). A Tree is a story about conflict between nature and modernity. In a remote part of Africa, a tree is affected by the proposed building of a motorway near Mutu’s house. Mutu is visited by several people trying to explain the inevitable victory of progress over nature. He bursts out in arguments in favour of preservation of the tree. Every person visiting him is a step higher in the power Boy playing the Bidon hierarchy, until the king visits him in person. Rui Peralta Mutu gives each a different speech, increasing the forcefulness of his arguments. He begins by underlining the importance of the tree in his daily life, “Fenacult aims to build a sense of creative along with environmental issues. With the growing importance of the visitors, he uses responsibility for the future. rhetorical tricks and techniques in order to convince them. He creates the tree’s Now is the time to show the world the historic and symbolic value, mixing legends with historical accounts borrowed from creative soul of Angola’s young generation” different African oral traditions. Almost in a trance, he manages to link the tree to Bantu – Miguel Petchkovsky myths of the creation of Earth.

48 SONANGOL UNIVERSO Miguel Petchkovsky (left) with world- CULTURE renowned video artist Gary Hill

At the end, the king proclaims the preservation of the tree, while Mutu himself dies. The future of Fenacult Fenacult 2014 was organised in just three months. “In Europe, a project of this scale would normally require three years of preparation,” Miguel Petchkovsky said. “This extremely short timeframe had profound implications for the festival’s promotion. That is the important lesson we take with us to Fenacult’s next edition in 2018.” Victor Gama agreed. He is convinced that the next festival will manage to surpass Fenacult 2014 across the board. “It will become an established national celebration of Angola’s music and culture.” Both artists feel that Fenacult 2014 has far-reaching ramifications. “I think the exchange of innovative ideas on how to take Angolan culture to the next stage is Fenacult’s most important legacy,” added Petchkovsky. “Minister of

Culture Rosa Cruz e Silva has an open and Miguel Petchovsky

Fenacult: a festival for everyone

Fenacult 2014 was not restricted to Luanda. A ‘culture’ train with artists and officials aboard travelled along two lines: from the capital across to Dondo and Malange and, in the south, from Lubango to Menongue. Angolan artists exhibited their work inside the train carriages, and traditional bands gave musical performances both onboard and at stations en route. Fenacult also staged a jazz festival in Lubango. The nationwide event also featured a cultural fair, a music marathon and a celebration of Angolan cinema in the eastern province of Moxico, while central Angola saw traditional dance displays in Huambo and gospel and hip-hop shows in Bié. The people of Kwanza Sul enjoyed a gospel music festival, and several poetry events and theatre performances took place in the coastal cities of Benguela and Lobito. The province of Uíge had a varied programme that included a film exhibition, a photographic exhibition on the life of Angola’s first president, António Agostinho Neto, and a kuduro performance. Further North, Zaire organised various exhibitions at the Museum of the Kongo Kings, a traditional dance show and a ‘Feminine Voices Festival’ in Soyo, while Cabinda hosted a cultural jamboree featuring many different activities.

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Playing the Tipaw at INSTRMNTS Victor Gama

explorative mind, and I praise her for that. or elsewhere, is always daunting. But in includes an art academy that covers art “Fenacult 2014 managed to deliver Luanda, it was gratifying to gradually history, contemporary art, art research the message that innovation is key to the feel that we were all working towards the and new art technology. Angola needs progress of Angolan society. It has proven same goals.” a museum of contemporary art, and its to the audience that culture is a dynamic, existing museums will need a ‘facelift’ to multi-layered, multidisciplinary, hybrid, Tomorrow’s artists attract young audiences.” fascinating platform.” In Luanda, the closing ceremony of The Ministry for Culture has already For Gama, the exhibition INSTRMNTS Fenacult 2014 featured a dance and expressed its encouragement for the in Luanda was one of the most challenging multimedia spectacle, 3D historical images reopening of art schools in Angola. productions he has ever experienced, but and videos on Angola’s history and its Petchkovsky feels that the new also one of the most rewarding. economic and cultural potential, as well generation of Angolan artists is looking “Organising a festival of this nature as a performance by a variety of Angolan to him and his fellow experienced artists requires building bridges between various musicians and dance groups. and cultural managers for support stakeholders interested in expanding Although the festival was a success, the and inspiration. and developing the cultural scene for the real work has only just begun. “We have the responsibility to pass our next generation. “Angola needs to urgently define a knowledge on to them, and inspire them “The perspective of dealing directly credible and pragmatic methodology of to explore new territory. Not in the future, with ministry officials, whether in Angola art education,” Petchkovsky said. “That but now.” p

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“We have the responsibility to pass our knowledge on to the new generation of Angolan artists and inspire them to explore new territory. Not in the future, but now”

– Miguel Petchkovsky

Victor Gama in a Toha duet

DECEMBER 2014 51 José Frade Sonangol wishes a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to all its employees, partners, customers, suppliers and friends