JUNE 2010 malaria Net gains A gigantic fight against Progress in the Progress Superstructure deepwater tower The boom in Angola’s new universities The boom in Angola’s Result! Universo
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8 26 20 Universo is the international Inside this issue magazine of Sonangol he best way to invest in the Board Members future of a country is educa- Manuel Vicente (President), tion, and in this issue we Anabela Fonseca, Mateus de Brito, T Fernando Roberto, Francisco de Lemos, focus on the great expansion of Baptista Sumbe, Sebastião Gaspar Martins universities in Angola. For years there was just Agostinho Neto Sonangol Department for University, but in the last few years Communication & Image several new institutions have Director opened. Thousands of places are João Rosa Santos now available for Angolans to Corporate Communications study everything from business to Assistants engineering. Nadiejda Santos, Lúcio Santos, At the same time, the quality of Cristina Novaes, José Mota, life is improving across Angola. Beatriz Silva, Paula Almeida, Better roads now mean that the Sandra Teixeira, Marta Sousa Photolibrary country has its first Western-style
taxi service, with a call centre and Kamene M Traça Publisher 34 Sheila O’Callaghan ranks in central Luanda. We also have a story on the Editor Alex Bellos biggest killer in Angola – malaria – and how millions of dollars are Art Director being spent on buying and distrib- David Gould uting nets to combat it. Sub Editor We don’t just concentrate on Ron Gribble Angola domestically. In the final Advertising Design pages we print a world map show- Bernd Wojtczack ing just how influential Sonangol Circulation Manager now is around the world. Matthew Alexander 4 Photolibrary Project Consultants Kamene M Traça Nathalie MacCarthy Mauro Perillo 4 Angola news briefing 8 Education, education, 20 Biting back Group President Wild cheetahs spotted in southern education Malaria is the biggest killer in Sonangol News John Charles Gasser Angola; a new anti-corruption law; A special report on the growth of Angola, and a major focus of all Universo is produced by Impact Media Fernando da Piedade Dias dos further education in Angola. Thanks relief and humanitarian work in 30 Sonangol 42 New heights Custom Publishing. The views expressed in Santos made Angolan vice- to an influx of both private and the country. Yet behind the grim news briefing The compliant piled tower the publication are not necessarily those of president; Hervé Renaud made government money, many new reality much good is being done, Angolan oil output set to rise by Tômbua Lândana is, at 474m, Sonangol or the publishers. Reproduction in national football coach; future of universities have opened in the last such as the distribution of mil- 16 per cent by 2011; Daewoo one of the largest man-made whole or in part without prior permission is prohibited. Nations’ Cup stadiums; China few years, and the boom is expanding lions of nets which are greatly Shipbuilding has won orders for structures in the world remains biggest exporter to Angola; the opportunities for young Angolans reducing the death toll from the five Sonangol tankers; Baptista This magazine is distributed to a closed TAAG ban lifted; Angola at the disease. We also look at Vester- Sumbe and Gaspar Martins new 48 Extraordinary circulation. To receive a free copy: Expo in Shanghai; mobile phone gaard Frandsen’s remarkable on Sonangol board; a new law to [email protected] 14 University challenge exploration usage up; Angola in numbers; na- An interview with Dr Alberto LifeStraw support biofuels; news from the An interview with Severino Circulation: 17,000 tional woman’s handball team wins Chocolate, rector of Óscar Ribas blocks Cardoso, the director of DEX, African title (below) University – one of the newest 26 Hail the cabs Sonangol’s exploration universities in Angola, whose first The first cab rank Angola has 32 On the grid directorate 6 students will graduate next year had for years has just opened. Superleague Formula returns 6 Snow Hill, We look at the firm, AfriTaxis, 51 The Global Picture London EC1A 2AY Tel + 44 20 7002 7778 18 Top of the class with its fleet of more than 300 34 A happy birthday! A map of Sonangol’s interests Fax +44 20 7002 7779 A profile of Agostinho Neto cars in Luanda, Benguela, The annual press conference around the world [email protected] University in Luanda, the most Lubango and Cabinda, and we delivered by Sonangol board Cover: Photolibrary established university in the country speak to driver Inoque president Manuel Vicente
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GLORYhe Angolan women’s handball team struck gold at this year’s African GIRLS Nations Handball Cup, beating Tunisia 31-30 in the final and claiming their tenth African title. The match was tight throughout, with Angola leading at half-time by 14-13, but they held their Tnerve and clinched the trophy at the 19th continental tournament staged in the Egyptian capital Cairo. The team were welcomed home by Luanda’s governor Francisca do Espírito Santo and thousands of flag-waving fans at Luanda’s 4th of February Airport. They then took a tour around the city before going to the Cidadela Stadium for an official presentation event. A few days later, they met President José Eduardo dos Santos at the Presidential Palace. Angola’s winning streak began in 1989 when they beat Ivory Coast in Algeria. Since then they have claimed gold every year except in 1996 when they lost in Benin. They have played in ten World Championships and four Olympic Games – their best position was 7th in 1996. Thanks to this latest African win, they have qualified for the upcoming 2011 World Championship in Brazil. José Figueira Cola
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Important imports Cats back New coach China remains the biggest exporter Wild cheetahs have been Former Zambia coach Hervé Renaud to Angola according to 2009 figures spotted in southern Angola has taken the reins of Angola’s football released by the Conselho Nacional de Car- for the first time in decades. team. The Frenchman assumes the job regadores. Chinese goods and materials Laurie Marker, from the following the departure of the Portuguese accounted for more than a quarter (26.4%) Cheetah Conservation Fund former Al-Ahly manager Manuel José, who of the products imported into Angola. Por- tugal was next at 14.3%, followed by Brazil in neighbouring Namibia, left at the end of the Africa Cup of Nations 10number of times the Angolan 8.9%, Spain 8.1%, France 5.1% and Bel- said he saw two cheetahs (CAN) hosted by Angola in January. Renaud, women’s handball team have been gium 4.4%. The most imported product in the Iona region in south- who has signed a two-year contract with An- African champions ern Namibe province, home gola, guided Zambia to the quarter finals of was cement (28.9%) followed by construc- to Angola’s biggest national the Nations Cup, will not face any competi- tion materials such as granite, basalt and park. Long years of conflict tive action until September and the start of sandstone. in Angola saw natural the qualification games for the 2012 CAN. Block lifted 1.9 million habitats destroyed and Angola will play group members Guinea-Bis- Angola’s average oil production, in The European Union has overturned its much of Angola’s wildlife sau, Kenya and Uganda. barrels per day, expected until 2013 ban on Angolan airline TAAG, which hunted and used for meat. had been forbidden from flying to European “To be able to see wildlife destinations, except Portugal, because of starting to come back is a safety concerns. Before the restrictions, huge benefit for Angola and TAAG had services to London, Paris and it is wonderful news at a Frankfurt. Spokesman Rui Carreira said the biodiversity level in gen- $350m company was now studying the possibility of eral,” said Marker. Angola’s value of microcredit from the renewing its fleet and would be introducing a Minister of Environment, Angolan government to help farmers customer call centre. TAAG has recently Maria de Fátima Jardim, added new flights to Havana and Cape Town. has declared 2010 the Year of Biodiversity, and has
REUTERS/Amr Dalsh Expo excellence pledged to restore the Angola is taking part in the 2010 country’s parks and create Shanghai Expo, which began on new conservation areas. Stadium use May 1. Aspects of the country’s past and Photolibrary The Angolan government has pledged present, details of its national recon- to make good use of the four new 7.1% Ethical man struction plan and various cultural forecasted GDP growth for Angola football stadiums it built for the Africa Cup A new law has been approved by exhibits will be on show under the theme during 2010, according to the IMF Citizens’ rights of Nations tournament. Sports Minister the National Assembly to help New Angola, Better Life. The aim is to Angola has a new constitution which sets out Gonçalves Muandumba says that ensuring combat corruption and make sure showcase Angola’s development through how the country is to be governed and defines sustainable management for the future of public money is well spent. The Probity organisations such as Sonangol, attract citizens’ rights and ethical considerations for the stadiums is a government priority. He Act was announced by President José international investment and highlight the nation. Under the new charter, the post said a working group has been collecting the country’s rich cultural heritage. 15,000 Eduardo dos Santos at the inaugura- of prime minister has been removed and ideas from a number of countries. The plan tion of the new cabinet and voted replaced with that of vice-president. Angola’s is to create a public-private initiative to man- through parliament in early March. The Cells sell first vice-president was named as Fernando da age the four sites in Luanda, Lubango, tonnes move to improve the way Angolan Mobile phone usage in Angola is con- Piedade Dias dos Santos, known as “Nandó”, Benguela and Cabinda. Some games amount of coffee produced in resources are used comes after dos tinuing to rise, with 7.5 million registra- and formerly president of the country’s Na- from Angola’s domestic Angola during 2009 Santos called for a zero tolerance tions at the end of 2009, according to the tional Assembly. After the constitutional mat- league Girabola have approach to corruption and bad National Institute of Communications. Forty- ters were concluded and the new document already been management of funds at party and four out of 100 Angolans use mobile phones, incorporated into Angolan law, President José played in the government level. The president has compared to one in 100 who use fixed-line Eduardo dos Santos said the next election new stadiums, and in telephones. Operator Unitel has five million 330,000 described the new legislation as a key would be held in 2012. This will be a parlia- March Angola played step in creating a “strategy of ethical clients, while its competitor Movicel lists 2.5 number of jobs created in Angola mentary vote with the president elected from Lithuania at Luanda’s 50,000- standards for the provision of service Vice-President Fernando million. The cost of buying a mobile has fallen during 2009 the top of the winning party’s list. seater 11th November Stadium. in public administration”. Dias dos Santos from almost $300 in 2001 to around $25. REUTERS/Nacho Doce iStockphoto.com
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Education, education, education After years with just one university, higher education in Angola is expanding rapidly
lbertina Gilberto chewed her pen architect or an accountant, Albertina knows with its sister Catholic universities in São nervously. She had just finished an it will not be easy to complete her course. Paulo, Brazil, and Porto, Portugal. Aentrance exam and if she passes it As well as tuition fees of around $250 a In 2007, another batch of new universi- means she could soon be studying mathe- month, she will spend over an hour a day ties was granted licences by the govern- matics at Lusíada University in Luanda. getting to classes, catching three minibus ment, among them the Methodist If she is accepted, the 21-year-old will taxis to the city centre from her home in University of Angola, Óscar Ribas Univer- be the first person in her family to go to Cazenga on the edge of Luanda. “It will be sity, Gregório Semedo University, the Tech- university, becoming part of a new genera- hard, but you have to follow your dreams nical University of Angola and Belas tion of Angolans benefiting from an don’t you?” she shrugged. University, which suddenly created an even expanding higher-education system. The recent expansion of the country’s wider educational playing field for Angola. “In the past, there was no way for ordi- higher-education system is giving thou- nary people like me to go to university. You sands of Angolans like Albertina the oppor- Investment could only go if your parents had lots of tunity to attend university. For decades, the The majority of the new institutions are in money,” she said. “But now that is chang- state-run Agostinho Neto University was the capital Luanda but some also have ing, and even those without a lot of money the only university in Angola and competi- campuses and affiliations in other parts of can study. It means they have a chance to tion for its limited places was extremely the country, mainly Cabinda, Benguela and get better jobs and make money in the high. Huíla. future.” After 1991, when Angola began to open Higher education is a central plank of up politically, new private higher-educa- Angolan government policy and a key area Proud tion institutions began to appear. These of investment. Former Prime Minister With a beaming smile, Albertina added: “I included the Catholic University of Angola, Paulo Kassoma, who is now chair of the am the third daughter but the first to go to Jean Piaget University, Lusíada University National Assembly, described university as university and my parents are very proud of and the Independent University of Angola. “a source of transmission of scientific me. I am very lucky to have their support, The Catholic University recently knowledge” but added: “It should also be but I also don’t have any children of my own became the first institution in Angola to the solution to society’s problems.” to hold me back.” offer a Master’s in Business Administration Mário Pinto de Andrade is the rector at
Dreaming of one day becoming an (MBA), which is being run in partnership Lusíada University, which opened in iStockphoto.com
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Today we’re at peace and it’s good that we can now educate our young people in our own country Dr Alberto Chocolate, rector of Óscar Ribas University
Building education: “the Catholic University of Angola ” Kamene M Traça 1999 and is now one of the most respected University in Moscow. “The Angolan educated with the country as it develops.” institutions in the country. He told government has invested a lot of money in Dr de Andrade of Lusíada University Universo: “I think it is a good thing that the educating its young people over the years,” shares this view: “During the war people government has supported this expansion he said. “I am a product of that went and studied in various parts of the by private universities when the state did investment because it was the government world, but today we’re at peace and it’s not have the capacity to respond to the who gave me the scholarship to be able to good that we can now educate our young demand. go to Moscow to do my studies.” people in our own country. Apart from it “This strategy has allowed the entry being cheaper than sending them abroad, into higher education of many young Development it’s part of the country’s development Angolans, but I believe this is still not “The phase has now come when we have and young people can take part in that enough because there is such a big demand started to think about the development of development.” from students. We need to keep investing, our country and that our workers should be He explained that the university has especially in areas such as civil engineering, educated here. By young people doing their nine faculties: Law, Computers, Human electronics, computer science and agricul- courses here in Angola they will be Resource Management, International ture. These are skills we need to develop in Angola.” In the 1970s and 1980s, scores of Outside Luanda, universities too Angolans were sent abroad to study on Even though Luanda has most of the country’s Huambo state scholarships. Many went to the universities, the government is also working to former Soviet Union, where members of decentralise higher education and in 2009 granted the ruling MPLA (Popular Movement for licences for a number of new universities to be the Liberation of Angola) had gone before based in the provinces. The new schools include them during colonisation under the the 11th November University in Cabinda; the Portuguese, among them Angola’s presi- José Eduardo dos Santos University in Huambo, dent José Eduardo dos Santos who studied with extensions in Bié and Moxico; the Mandume petroleum engineering and radar commu- University in Huíla but with campuses in Namibe, nications in what is now Azerbaijan. Kuando Kubango and Cunene; University Kimpa Vita with a base in Uíge but also covering Kwanza Dr Alberto Chocolate, rector of Óscar Norte; Lweji-Ya-Konde University in Lunda Norte; Ribas University, one of the new private Albertina Gilberto: Lunda Sul and Malanje; and Katiavala in Benguela “My parents are very institutions opened in 2007, earned his with a campus in Kwanza Sul. proud of me” degree in law from the People’s Friendship Kamene M Traça
10 SONANGOL UNIVERSO JUNE 2010 11 SU26.Education.pp8-19:SU26 28/5/1013:58Page12 12 ways bedependentonforeign expertise.” ment ofthecountry. If we don’t, we willal- need tohave skilledpeopleforthedevelop- ofcourses. thosesorts engineering, We medicine, agriculture, computerscience, need tochangethis. We needthemtogofor Angolans togoforsocialsciencesbutwe est inmore practical andtechnicalcourses. Angolan studentswouldshow more inter- national radio debates, hesaidwished topic onwhichhefrequently to contributes background isInternational Relations, a tional Relations. Law, Psychology, Economics andInterna- students withthemostpopularcoursesin tecture. There are closeto10,000 ment, Accounting, Psychology andArchi- Relations, Economics, Company Manage- EDUCATION the sectorsinisolation. research –ratherthandealingwith and scientificeducation improvement ofAngola’s technical tion, theideaistofocuson also responsible forHigherEduca- Science andTechnology Minister, In makingCândidaTeixeira, formerly for ScienceandTechnology João SebastiãoTeta, Secretary ofState Higher Education Nascimento, Secretary ofStatefor Adão GasparFerreira do Science andTechnology Minister forHigherEducationand Maria deCândidaPereira Teixeira, Education and Technical Vocational Benedito, Vice-Minister forTraining Narciso DamásiodosSantos and SocialAction Vice-Minister forGeneralEducation Ana PaulaInêsLuísNdalaFernando, terial teamare: Simão. Othermembersoftheminis- system isnowoverseenbyMpinda earlier thisyear, Angola’s education reshuffleFollowing agovernment Roll call SONANGOL “There’s atendencyforyoung Although Dr deAndrade’s own UNIVERSO lessons, eitherinthemornings, classesrun people. To helpstudentsafford their subject, andthisisalotofmoneyformany month, dependingontheinstitutionand tag. price institutionsfaceahefty who attendprivate has manybenefitsforAngolansbutthose Getting auniversity educationobviously from European orBrazilian-based colleges. fessors andothersleadingtoaccreditations with somecoursestaughtby visitingpro- ilar approach atotherAngolanuniversities, Brazil, andtheUnited States. There isasim- ticularly Portugal, especially LatinAmerica, with academicinstitutionsinEurope, par- Lusíada alsohasanumberofpartnerships Partnerships owned diamondcompanyEndiama. giantOdebrechtconstruction andstate- mobile phoneoperator Unitel, Brazilian Sonangol, thenationalairline TAAG, placements withlocalcompaniessuchas several andruns and tries partnerships connecting studentswithAngolanindus- “ of courses engineering, mechanicsthosesort agriculture, computerscience Courses range from $250to$500a Lusíada putsspecialemphasison We We need ” them togofor Mario PintodeAndradefrom LusíadaUniversity to study. Now theyare makingupforit.” war, peoplelostalotoftimenotbeingable tunity. It’s ofdemocracy. allpart During the but now more peopleare gettingtheoppor- ing. University usedtobejustfortheelite, isthatpeoplearewhat isimportant study- is justareality ofAngola,” hesaid. “But keep working topayfortheirstudies. That classes atdifferent times, sothatpeoplecan and theteachers. iswhywehave “This into accountthecostofbooks, equipment course feesare reasonable whenyou take ted thatuniversity isnotcheapbutsaid physical disabilities. children ofwarveterans ortostudentswith the universities, andsomegive discountsto either state-fundedoroffered by internally need help, there are scholarshipsavailable, making theirwaytoclasses. people clutchingfoldersandlaptops, streets are filledwithwell-dressed young most popularand,come5pm,Luanda’s makes theevening classesinevitablythe people toholddown ajobaswell. This ortheevenings,the afternoons toallow Lusíada rector Dr deAndrade admit- For themostpromising studentswho medicine, iStockphoto.com JUNE 2010 13
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Dr Alberto Chocolate: “We are moving forward UNIVERSITY every day.” CHALLENGE Óscar Ribas University’s first students will graduate next year
hen you visit the campus of important feedback to work with.” courses designed for civil construction and Óscar Ribas University (UOR) in UOR students need to pass internal the telecommunications industry. All stu- WLuanda Sul, the first thing that exams to graduate but there is currently no dents are required to do at least one mod- strikes you is the newness of the complex countrywide evaluation scheme or a set of ule in English, to help them with their from the security lodge at the entrance to national standards. It is also easier to gain studies and to create employment oppor- the tree-lined student walkways next to the a place at the university because fewer stu- tunities down the line. classrooms. Much of the site is still being dents apply and there are no entrance “These are the demands of the mar- built upon, and on the day Universo paid a exams, just the requirement of a high- ket,” said Dr Chocolate. “We are trying to visit we had to shout to be heard over the school education. encourage all our students to learn Eng- whirr of the cement mixers. lish, not just to be able to read the many “Here we will have more classrooms Reputation textbooks which are printed in English but and a library, and over there a new resi- While some courses at Agostinho Neto also to make our graduates more attractive dency area for our teachers,” said the uni- University (UAN) can attract up to one to employers. Longer term, we hope to versity’s rector Dr Alberto Chocolate, hundred applications per vacancy, Dr open an English language study centre pointing at the building site below his first- Chocolate, who also teaches at UAN’s eco- here on site so that English can be a part of floor office window. “We are a very new nomics faculty, admitted that not all his all our courses.” university. There is still a lot of building to university’s places were filled. He said it UOR’s teaching staff come from a be done, as you can see, but we are getting would take time for the school’s reputation variety of countries beyond Angola, there piece by piece.” to develop and in order to guarantee the including Brazil, São Tomé and Príncipe, UOR was among a clutch of new pri- quality of the courses offered, an internal Cuba and Portugal and many live on vate universities granted government evaluation project was being set up with campus. Some are to be housed in the licences in 2007 and this academic year, the Polytechnic of Porto in Portugal. new residency wing currently under which began in March, will see the institu- “It is important that we are a univer- construction. tion’s first batch of graduates. sity of quality and reference. I don’t like to With working partnerships with King “This is an important year for us,” said say ‘excellence’, I prefer the term ‘refer- Juan Carlos University in Madrid, the Dr Chocolate. “We have many questions ence’,” said the rector, who has been in- Autonomous University of Barcelona and that will be answered – how does society volved with the UOR since the early the University of Lisbon, UOR hopes to see us? How will our students fit into the consultation stages. “We are still in an em- bring established expertise and educa- employment market? Will they be bryonic phase, but we are moving forward tional know-how to Angola. accepted? Will they be seen as students of every day.” “We are a very young university and quality? UOR, which was named after the late we still need to grow and learn, which is “At the moment, we can’t make an Angolan writer Óscar Ribas, offers the why we have chosen these well-estab- evaluation because we do not yet have stu- usual university courses such as law, eco- lished public universities to form partner- dents in the market. But when we see the nomics and social sciences, but it also has ships with because they have a culture
reaction of the market, this will give us a specialist engineering faculty with over many years,” said Dr Chocolate. Kamene M Traça
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ÓSCAR NOMINATIONS: STUDENTS “I want to work in politics ” “Without university, TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVES you won’t get a ourença dos Santos is beginning the second year of a four-year in- good job” “It will give me more opportunities” ternational relations course at Óscar Ribas University. Married and L living in Viana, she chose UOR because of its location outside the city centre. “It’s easier to get here,” she said. “You don’t have all the has- sle with the traffic that you have in the city centre.” Lourença, 26, had already started an international relations course through her job at the Foreign Ministry but was starting afresh. She is paying course fees of around $300 which she admits is expensive, but believes is worth it. “I want to work in politics or abroad for an Angolan embassy,” she said, “so I need to study. I like studying and learning more about the world.”
fter a number of years work- ing on construction sites in A Spain, Yannick Cruz decided it was time to come back home to Angola and study. The 26-year-old is hoping to be accepted to an econom- ics course at Lusíada University so he can study at night and get paid work during the day. “Life has been complicated. Before I had to work, but now I am back in Angola and I want to study. Without university, you won’t get a Kamene M Traça good job, so you need to get a inga Julio Francisco Baptista is in the second year of university’s administration department to help make ends degree. I’m doing economics be- his law degree at Óscar Ribas University and spends meet. His classmate and friend José Republican, from cause, like everyone else, I want to Z over an hour a day getting to classes from his home Morro Bento in Luanda Sul, also wants to be a lawyer and work in a bank and get rich.” in the bairro of Sapú in Kilamba Kiaxi on the outskirts of hopes after five years at UOR to do a master’s degree in Living close by in Maianga, Yan- Luanda. “I am studying because it is important to get an the United States. nick said he chose Lusíada because education,” the 21-year-old told Universo. “It will give me “I want to be a lawyer so that I can defend people and of its location, but also because of its more opportunities in the future as I want to be a lawyer. make Angola a better place,” he said, explaining that he reputation and the fact that his “I chose this university because it had a good reputa- paid for his studies by working part-time at his uncle’s mother and brother studied there tion and I like how it is organised. It’s hard to get into some private health clinic nearby. before him. “It’s a four-year course, universities because of the competition for places, so I José, who spent his childhood in Namibia where he which is a long time and a lot of decided to come here because it wasn’t so difficult to get learnt English, said it was good news that more universities maths for someone like me who left a place.” were opening up in Angola, but he felt it was important school nine years ago. It’s not going Zinga, however, is not finding paying the course fees as quality was maintained. to be easy, but I am determined to easy as the studying and he has had to take a job in the do it.” Kamene M Traça
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EDUCATION TOP OF THE CLASS Agostinho Neto University is the best in the country, with courses of an international standard, reports Cécile de Comarmond
tate-funded, the University of Agostinho Neto is the oldest uni- versity in Angola. Created in 1962 as the Estudos Gerais Univer- Ssitários (General Studies University), it was renamed the Universidade of Luanda in 1968, and then in 1979 the Universidade de Angola. It became Universidade Agostinho Neto (UAN) in 1985 in hon- our of Angola’s first president, who died in 1979, four years after the country attained independence from Portugal. “Agostinho Neto University is the alma mater of all universities in Angola,” says Dr Albano Kanga, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering since 2002. “And in my mind, it is still the best in the country in terms of education and organisation, and many of the leading executives in Angola graduate from here.” Dr Kanga says competition is high, Dr Albano Kanga: “Many of the particularly for engineering places. Every year as many as 2,000 leading executives in Angola : Kamene M Traça candidates sit an entrance exam, but the university accepts only 10 graduate from here.”
Pictures per cent of them. Recruitment Many international oil companies operating in Angola recruit directly from the course, he says, taking students into jobs as soon as they graduate and sending them on further training. In 2002, UAN launched a post-graduate degree in Petroleum Engineering which is run in conjunction with the French Petroleum Institute. Dr Kanga says funding comes in part from oil companies and all students are guaranteed a job at the end. Another UAN department with its eye on maximising students’ professional potential is the Faculty of Law, which in partnership with BP has started a Master of Laws degree specialising in oil and gas leg- islation. It is the first of its kind on offer in Angola, and UAN is one of only a handful of institutions in the world providing this specialism. In terms of facilities, UAN has lots to shout about too. In about a year from now, its 3,500 Luandan students will take their first steps into a brand new campus in Luanda Sul, which is scheduled to be Neto profits: students (left) fully completed by 2013. UAN has branches in ten of Angola’s 18 and classes (right) at provinces. Its faculties include Law, Engineering, Education Sciences, Agostinho Neto University Economy, Medicine, Social Sciences, Nursing and Arts.
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BACKGreat strides are being made in the fight against malaria, Africa’s biggest killer, thanks to the distribution of millions of mosquito nets. Nina Hobson reports ➔ Photolibrary
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alaria is the most common cause of illness and death in Africa, As all workers Mwhere one child dies every 30 seconds from the disease. Yet despite its are volunteers, shocking prevalence, there is a simple and effective way to stop the disease from there are no spreading: sleep under a mosquito net. In the last decade, a massive drive has administration been under way throughout the continent “ to distribute millions of free nets. And there costs, so every is a cautious optimism that the effort is bringing results with the aim, set by the dollar donated United Nations, to halt the spread of the disease by 2015. goes straight In 2005, American President George W. Community help: Esso Angola staff volunteers Bush set up the President’s Malaria Initia- demonstrate how nets towards the tive (PMI), run by the US Agency for Inter- should be used national Development (USAID), and Kamene M Traça purchase of Angola was selected as one of the first The results have so far been positive. A Deaths are also down from 25,000 in 2003 countries to be targeted. Since then, the 2006 survey showed that usage of insecti- to just over 7,000 in the last 12 months. nets PMI has spent more than $63 million on cide-treated nets in Angola increased from Helping to bring down these numbers fighting malaria in Angola, including the less than 2 per cent in 2001 to over 18 per is the United Nations Children’s Fund distribution of three million nets and in- cent in 2006. Another survey in Uíge (Unicef), which has given out nearly two vestment in community programmes. A province, one of the most malarial areas, million free bednets since last April, and further $35.5 million has been earmarked showed that the proportion of households hopes to distribute at least the same quan- for 2010. with insecticide-treated nets increased tity by the end of this year. It has also been USAID receives its funds from the US from 8 per cent to 86 per cent in a year. taking a far more active approach to its dis- ” government and also private organisations As the number of nets distributed goes tribution system. such as the ExxonMobil Foundation, which up, so the number of cases of malaria and Whereas it used to provide free nets has donated $3.5 million over the past four deaths related to the disease is going down. and wait for people to collect them, it is Stephen Morrison/epa/Corbis years to the PMI. In addition to this, since According to Filomeno Fortes, the national now going into the community. Typically, and Disease Control, he says, recently received a donation of $300 from a school northern part of the country and along the 2009 the Global Fund to Fight Aids, co-ordinator for the Angolan government’s Unicef workers set up stalls in local com- announced the distribution of over 150,000 somewhere in Texas, for example, where the coastal lowlands of the Atlantic Ocean. Tuberculosis and Malaria has spent more anti-malaria campaign, there were 3.1 mil- munity centres or public spaces and adver- mosquito nets in Huíla province. students were raising some money to offer Incidence rates and levels of understanding than $78 million on fighting malaria in lion cases of malaria in the country in 2009, tise free distribution throughout nearby On a smaller scale, the Angola Mos- mosquito nets to Africa.” In 2005, the proj- of the disease also vary according to the Angola. down from more than 3.4 million in 2008. villages, with the help of local leaders. quito Net Project (AMNP) is completely run ect even received $9,000 from an oil execu- region. by volunteers. It distributes nets to areas tive who had run the Dublin marathon. According to Dr Francisco Saute, resi- Combat which larger organisations might have diffi- dent adviser at the President’s Malaria Ini- Dr Koenraad Vanormelingen, Unicef repre- culty accessing because of transport or lo- Volunteers tiative in Angola, “the main driver of malaria sentative in Angola, says that mosquito nets gistical problems. It was set up in 2000 after As all workers are volunteers, there are no transmission is by far the climate”. Recent not only protect those sleeping under Toril Ostvedt, a Norwegian worker at administration costs, so every dollar research has also found that the risk of them, but also help reduce the number of Unicef, became concerned about the des- donated goes straight towards malaria in Luanda is comparatively low, de- mosquitoes in the region. “Communities perate need for bednets in hard-to-reach the purchase of nets. spite a high density of mosquitoes. This with large-scale coverage of insecticide- rural areas. She teamed up with other vol- Since its launch, AMNP is because higher levels of pollution treated nets have 50 per cent less malaria, unteers and the AMNP was born. has distributed about hinder the malaria-carrying but also 80 per cent fewer malarial mosqui- Project manager Tako Koning is pas- 20,000 nets. They are type of mosquitoes from toes. So if you sleep under a net, you are sionate about the work: “We are distributing family sized, so assuming breeding. actually helping to reduce the number of nets free of charge to Angolans who don’t three people sleep under Travel just over mosquitoes in the environment. have the funds to buy nets or live in remote one net, the charity has one hundred kilome- “The Angolan government has dedi- rural areas where nets are unavailable. So, provided protection from tres east to the region of cated a lot of resources to fighting malaria. in our own small way, we are trying to make malaria to about 60,000 Kwanza Norte, however, and Over 20 per cent of Angola’s national a difference.” Angolans. the rate surges to hyper-en- budget is allocated towards social services, The charity raises on average $15,000 a Malaria is endemic demic. Equally, the region of which includes programmes to combat year through private donations from all over throughout Angola, being Uíge has one of the highest
Kamene M Traça malaria.” The Department for Public Health the world. “We are on the internet and we hyper-endemic in the levels of malaria in the
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Vestergaard Frandsen has developed the Permanet 3.0 mosquito net that offers better protection against Angola-specific insecticide resistant mosquitoes
taste“ makes it appealing to children, and in Mali have delivered promising results so is optimistic that Angola will halt the spread because it can be dissolved in milk and far, with the vaccine producing a robust of malaria over the next five years. Indeed, other drinks it is easier to administer than immune response in young children. the government has set a target of complete the previous large, bitter-tasting tablets. elimination of the disease by 2030. Fast-acting, it cures over 97 per cent of Research “Angola has a huge window of oppor- patients after a three-day treatment course. Microsoft founder Bill Gates of the Bill and tunity to dramatically reduce” malaria,” he Chris Hentschel, chief executive of the Melinda Gates Foundation, which is leading says. “It has huge national and international Medicines for Malaria Venture, says: “As the research, said recently: “We have a resources at its disposal and consistent malaria is essentially a paediatric disease, vaccine that’s in the last trial phase. A economic growth to fund anti-malarial we are hopeful that this child-friendly for- partially effective vaccine could even be programmes. It has good co-ordination in mulation will contribute to a reduction in available within three years, but a fully place and it is actively addressing the child mortality in Africa, and give children effective vaccine will take five to ten years.” underlying factors behind malaria, such as back their future.” With new scientific developments and poverty. Demand for our nets is increasing; Perhaps the greatest hope for the joint efforts from the government, the it is really encouraging that people are future is the chance of an anti-malarial private sector and NGOs, as well as faith becoming more aware of malaria and know vaccine. Tests by US and African researchers and civil society groups, Dr Vanormelingen what to do.” Straw of survival
Company Vestergaard Frandsen has come up with an Elliott Yamin distributing bednets to ingenious way to stop the spread of other diseases in Africa. children during a malaria-prevention event held in Luanda
Kamene M Traça The LifeStraw (pictured below) looks like an oversized version of an ordinary drinking straw, but actually country. Here, communities are aware of and broadcast throughout Africa in English, Permanet 3.0 mosquito net, the only net contains a water filter which protects against diar- the problem, but when it comes to nets, de- French, Portuguese, Swahili, Wolof and that offers improved safeguards against An- rhoeal diseases. The larger LifeStraw family ver- mand outstrips availability. Meanwhile in other local African languages. In it, football gola-specific insecticide-resistant mosqui- sion lasts for up to three years, and will be Cunene, the problem lies in the lower level stars warned about the dangers of malaria toes. Another net, which contains available in Angola this year. of public awareness and how best to fight and how best to prevent the disease. The insecticide within its fibres and never needs the disease. campaign was sponsored by Sumitomo retreating, has also been produced by Sum- Chemical, manufacturers of mosquito nets, itomo Chemical. The tough, tear-resistant Education and was supported by the Angolan minis- net, called the Olyset, is not yet on the An- Unicef’s Dr Vanormelingen underlines the ters of health, youth and sport. golan market, but some charities have ex- importance of sensitising people to the More recently, Elliott Yamin, a singer pressed an interest in future distribution. risks of malaria. “It is essential that people from the TV series American Idol known for While nets are currently the best way develop their own capacity to diagnose the his hit single Wait for You, and Idol judge forward, there are other ways to fight symptoms of malaria. Recognising the Kara DioGuardi came to Angola to raise malaria. A new version of the life-saving symptoms and getting treatment within 24 awareness of malaria and to help distribute anti-malarial drug Coartem is now avail- hours saves lives,” he says. Angola Mos- free nets. This was facilitated by Esso able in Angola. Coartem Dispersible is the quito Net Project manager Koning adds: “I Angola and happened because ExxonMobil first dissolvable combination therapy think education is the most important way is a major corporate sponsor of the developed to treat malaria among children. to combat malaria.” programme’s initiative “Idol Gives Back”. Angola’s National Programme for An example of recent efforts to raise Not only are more nets being distrib- Malaria Control is offering this cherry- awareness includes a TV and radio cam- uted, but protection is getting better. flavoured medicine to children from six
paign linked to the Africa Cup of Nations Vestergaard Frandsen has developed the months to eight years old. Its sweet, fruity Vestergaard Frandsen
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Service with a smile: taxi driver Inoque HAIL THE Gonçalves
CABSLuanda’s roads have improved so much that one enterprising company has launched a new taxi service
ngola has been at peace for eight years, and during that time the country has undergone extensive redevelopment. AThe capital Luanda is awash with new skyscrapers and of- fice buildings, testament to the booming economy and the fact that communities across the country are gaining new schools, hospi- tals, airports and health posts. But ask any Angolan to pinpoint the biggest change they have seen, and it is likely they will say the new roads. There are now good fast links from Luanda on the country’s west coast to all the major provincial cities, such as Benguela, Lubango and Huambo. And a number of places previously accessible only by air because of the risk of landmines can now be reached by car. Luanda has also enjoyed a roads renaissance, with many poorly-maintained potholed tracks replaced by multi-laned smooth tarmac highways with roundabouts, slip roads and traffic lights. As well as making driving easier and safer, reducing traffic queues and cutting journey times, the improved road system has also seen the launch of a new private taxi service. Launch AfriTaxis operates a fleet of more than 300 cabs in Luanda, Benguela, Lubango and Cabinda, offering for the first time in several years the option of hailing a taxi from a designated rank, rather than squashing into a shared blue and white public-service minibus or paying out for a private hire car and driver. The company – which is a public-private partnership – had been planned for the middle of 2010, but its launch was brought forward in time for the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament which Angola hosted in January. “We started working on the project
in 2009,” says AfriTaxis boss José Manuel Rasak. Kamene M Traça “With the Cup of Nations coming, we thought, how will visitors cope without being able to hire taxis? So we brought All pictures:
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things forward and started running on January 4,” says Rasak, who is also the general manager of vehicle-hire company WAPO Angola We went for 4x4s Gestão e Serviços Lda. This is a major step in the right direction for Angola. You can because they are larger now get off a plane at Luanda airport and walk into a taxi just like you can in any other city in the world. The initial investment was and more comfortable for $12 million and Rasak says $8 million more will be spent during 2010, but the plan is to develop the service gradually. clients, and because they are “We have to go slowly otherwise we will fail, so it’s a case of “ step by step,” he says. A call centre opened in March, so that higher they are safer customers can now ring and order a taxi rather than go to a rank. José Manuel Rasak, AfriTaxis
Comfortable just over $1 – per kilometre or on a time and distance basis. AfriTaxis uses white Kia Sportages which are five-door 4x4 models. “This is a business-class service. It’s not going to replace the “It’s not that we’re going off road,” says Rasak. “We went for 4x4s blue and white minibuses, because that is public transport. But this because they are larger and more comfortable for clients, and be- does give a new option to people who can afford it and who want cause they are higher they are safer. Kia vehicles also come with to travel in style,” says Rasak. “It might be expensive” if you’re stuck more than two years without maintenance and we don’t have prob- in traffic because the meter keeps going, but out of traffic we’re lems getting spare parts. around 25 per cent cheaper than taxis in Portugal and Brazil and “This was a problem for Macon, a company which tried to run offer a fair price. a taxi service five years ago. The road conditions were very bad then “So far, the business is going very well indeed. It was extremely and their cars’ suspension got damaged and they had difficulties popular during the Cup of Nations, especially with visiting journal- in making the repairs.” ists, many of whom booked our taxis for the whole day because it Learning from Macon’s mistakes, AfriTaxis have a policy of was better value than hiring a car and a driver.” waiting in ranks to be hired, instead of driving around looking for Other types of clients, says Rasak, are parents sending their clients, getting stuck in traffic and wasting petrol. children to school by taxi and people going shopping who do not Rasak, a Mozambican who has been working in Angola for 15 want the hassle of parking. The taxis, he explains, are fitted with years, also stressed the strict hiring policy for his drivers who must trackers so they cannot go faster than 70kph or further than 25km be over the age of 30 and know the city inside out. All applicants from the centre of Luanda. must sit several tests and the company has left some vacancies The services in Benguela, Lubango and Cabinda are also open in order to make sure that it gets the right type of staff. Drivers proving popular, and with less traffic in these smaller cities taxis earn a basic salary of $700 a month and up to 10 per cent of their are a winning way to get around. Rasak says the provincial arm of daily takings on top of that, plus customer tips. the business will be released to local franchises in the coming The Kias are spacious with leather seats and air conditioning months, but Luanda will stay centrally owned and managed. and are cleaned daily, sometimes twice a day. The minimum charge is 300 kwanzas – just under $3 – and then around 120 kwanzas – AfriTaxis call centre is on +244 222 311 754. Hey taxi!
Inoque Gonçalves, aged 38, is a driver at AfriTaxis. A father of four, he has only been doing the job for a month but really enjoys the new rou- Luanda has also enjoyed a roads renaissance, with tine. His shift starts at 3pm from Monday to Friday at the company’s headquarters. He checks his car to make sure it is clean, and then many poorly-maintained potholed tracks replaced by goes to Mutamba, one of the most important bus stops in downtown Luanda where AfriTaxis has a rank. “We see all kinds of people in this multi-laned smooth tarmac highways with job,” he says. “Tourists, businessmen, local people, foreigners.” Inevitably, Gonçalves spends a fair amount of time in traffic jams. roundabouts, slip roads and traffic lights But he is quite stoical about it all: “Those things are part of daily life. Of “ course, sometimes there are people complaining, but what can we do? They have to be patient as well!” Before becoming a taxi driver, he used to work in a factory making aluminium fences. “It was OK,” he says, “but I feel good here. There’s a feeling of mutual respect among all the staff.”
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utput of Angolan oil is set to rise by 16 per cent
by 2011, according to Jupiterimages News from the blocks O Cobalt International Energy Inc has (20%), Total (15%), Falcon Oil Holding Angola M-I SWACO, a drilling fluids venture Aníbal Octávio Teixeira da Silva, announced risk-service agreements SA (5%), Petrobras International Braspetro BV partly owned by Schlumberger Ltd, has the Deputy Oil Minister. The for Blocks 9 and 21 offshore Angola. The (5%) and Statoil Angola Block 15/06 Award won a contract from Chevron for work off forecasted increase in produc- Houston-based company has a 40 per cent AS (5%). ENI has been in Angola since 1980 Angola that could lead to $800 million in rev- interest in the blocks, working in conjunc- and its current daily production is around enues over six years. M-I SWACO will provide tion is attributed to a number of tion with Sonangol EP, Sonangol P&P, 130,000 barrels per day. drilling and completion fluids, drilling-waste new deepwater projects coming Nazaki Oil and Gáz SA, and Alper Oil Limi- management, and cleaning tools and services on stream in the coming tada. The agreements form the basis of The China Petroleum & Chemical for six to ten rigs in two blocks off Angola for months and more than 30 other Cobalt’s exploration, development and pro- Corporation (Sinopec) has bought a the Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Ltd, a sub- duction operations on these blocks. The 55 per cent stake in the joint venture sidiary of Chevron. discoveries currently under drilling programme is expected to begin Sonangol Sinopec in Block 18, from its development. The deputy oil within the next 12 months. parent company China Petrochemical. The minister made the comments at deal is the company’s first acquisition of Italy’s ENI has made two new oil discov- overseas upstream assets and is set to an energy conference in South eries in Block 15. The two new wells – push Sinopec’s proven crude oil reserves Africa and said production Nzanza-1 and Cinguvu-1 – were drilled in a up by 3.6 per cent or by 102 million barrels, would rise to around 2.2 million water depth of 1,400m, located around 350km with daily crude-oil production rising by 8.8 per cent, according to a Reuters report. barrels per day (bpd) by next northwest of Angola’s capital Luanda. ENI has a 35 per cent working interest and is the oper- The east zone of Block 18 has been on year, above its current output of ator in Block 15/06, while Sonangol EP, is the stream since October 2007, with a daily 1.9 million bpd. According to concessionary. Other partners are Sonangol production capacity of 240,000 barrels. BP industry studies, Angola’s oil Pesquisa e Produção (15%), SSI Fifteen Ltd is also a partner in Block 18. iStockphoto.com industry will attract more than Bloomberg via Getty Images $50 billion in investment Ship sales between 2009 and 2013. Green fuels Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co has won orders to build five iStockphoto.com Angola’s parliament has approved a new In the following pages we 160,000-ton tankers for Sonangol. The South Korean shipbuilder said the deal law to support biofuel production and publish board president signed in Lisbon was worth $344 million and the ships would be delivered from regulate the industry in a move to create mid-2011 to early 2013. The tankers are 274m long, with a beam of 48m, and can Manuel Vicente’s annual press jobs and future renewable energy sources. cruise at an average speed of 15.4 knots or 28.5km an hour. Since 1995, Sonangol Under the new legislation, foreign compa- conference to the media, has placed orders with Daewoo for 12 offshore plants, three LNG carriers and five nies that invest in biofuels will have to together with the highlights of oil tankers. ensure that local populations have access the subsequent question and to water, basic services and medical care. answer session with him and Growth potential Personnel news They will also be required to sell a portion of their biofuels to the state oil company other board members. In the Angola will provide 19.7 per cent of Baptista Sumbe and Sebastião Pai Sonangol to supply the local market. Africa’s oil by 2014, according to a report Querido Gaspar Martins have been exchanges, the conversation Sonangol has a 40 per cent stake in Bio- by Business Monitor International. BMI’s report named as new executive board mem- often covers Sonangol’s increas- com which is planting sugar cane in the also notes that Angola has the greatest produc- bers of Sonangol and Albina Assís Angolan province of Malanje. A factory is ing presence abroad. tion growth potential, with Nigeria continuing to Africano as a new non-executive mem- also being built to process sugar and In order to show how much experience political problems. Overall, African ber. Thus, the board of Sonangol, produce ethanol and electricity. Speaking oil production was 7.84 million barrels per day chaired by Manuel Vicente, now has of an international outlook the in parliament at the approval of the new (bpd) in 2001, and averaged an estimated 9.79 seven executive members and three legislation, Oil Minister José Maria company now has, the inside million in 2009. It is set to rise to 12.52 million non-executive members. José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos said: “Biofuels back pages show a global map by 2014. In 2001, the region was exporting an Botelho de Vasconcelos has been reap- will create jobs and a renewable supply of average 4.86 million bpd. This has risen to an pointed as Angola’s oil minister following of the company’s activites energy for the future.” estimated 6.19 million in 2009 and is forecast to a government reshuffle. Aníbal Octávio around the world. ➔ reach 8.4 million by 2014. Teixeira da Silva continues as his deputy.
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GRIDuperleague Formula, a motor racing championship sponsored by Sonangol, had the first race of its second season at Silverstone, England, in April. The format in- Svolves racing cars that run under the flags of top football teams, including Liver- pool, Porto and Olympique Lyonnais (see picture). At each race meet – 12 over the season – there are three races. The grid of the second race is the inverse of the results of the first race, which gives the race added excitement as the on-form drivers must start from the back of the grid. The third race is the Super Final with only the six best drivers from the first two races. The overall winner at Silverstone was Craig Dolby, racing for Tottenham Hotspur. Superleague Formula
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BIRTHDAY!On February 25, when Sonangol celebrated its 34th birthday, board president Manuel Vicente gave his annual press conference. He was joined by board members Mateus de Brito, Francisco de Lemos and Anabela Fonseca. On the following pages we present an edited version of his speech and selected questions ➔ Kamene M Traça
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n behalf of the Administration Questions to Manuel Vicente We are also looking to OCouncil of Sonan- gol we would like to thank you for your presence and The 2008 bidding round was put on hold for the elec- enter the petrochemical to tell you that it is an hon- tions but still there is no set date for the auction – can sector, and still have in mind our to have you here. you say when this might be?
As usual when the Manuel Vicente: In relation to when there might be an auction for the listing of Sonangol in the company’s anniversary is new blocks, I told the press during the Opec meeting in December celebrated, we look in the that this activity was continuing to be delayed. This is to do with “principal financial scope of our mission, vision structural changes happening in the country. We have been busy and values at how to satisfy creating our new constitution and only after the consolidation of markets Manuel Vicente our stakeholders and society. So we are going to use this occasion this new government will we return to this process. We are not to share with you some information in relation to the operations saying that the auction has been cancelled, but that it will continue
and economic activity of 2009. Photolibrary to be delayed until we take a new decision on this. Sonangol then exercised its right of refusal. After the first warning, As we said last year, 2009 was really a difficult time. It was a Profitability of assets was 10.84 per cent, profitability of our Marathon then tried to sell the company which was title-holder of year of many restrictions where the economic situation, national own capital 20.24 per cent and profitability of invested capital 19.76 What is happening about Sonangol joining a stock this 30 per cent share of Block 32. This would automatically have and international, was totally unfavourable. We had to make per cent, leaving a liquidity index of 1.6. exchange after it was put on hold last year during the meant disposing of the assets. Sonangol informed Marathon that if adjustments to our programmes of work, and consequently our Despite the crisis and its effects and impacts on the financial financial crisis? it went ahead with the ”sale it would take legal action, not only in budgets at operational and investment levels. and operational activity, Sonangol continues to be strong, based on This is a challenge which remains ahead of us. The idea is to start Angola but also in the United States. As concessionaire, Sonangol During 2009 we continued with our restructuring process to its profits, which are above $2 billion. It has a debt which we can with Johannesburg and then go into other markets. It is important also told Marathon that it would use its right to acquire the 20 per consolidate the organisational chain of Sonangol so that Sonangol consider moderate of just half of its equity capital. It has strong, that we do this to improve our accountability with our international cent share available. EP can become a financial house with the business solid and growing net petty-cash funds and a desir- ‘‘ patrons. It is taking more time than we had envisaged, but the Companies have the right to explore these resources, but when being done at the level of its various subsidiaries. At able liquidity. objective remains and it will be achieved. they are no longer interested they have to return them to the owner, the subsidiary level, we continued to strengthen the In terms of obligations of taxation to the the government of Angola, and cannot commercialise them role of Sonangol P&P as an operating company. We Statement national treasury, we paid taxes last year of $936 mil- What happened in Block 32 with Marathon? publicly. Consequently, earlier this month Sonangol paid Marathon also entered into the refining business. During the by Manuel lion and we paid to the state in terms of dividends Marathon Oil, the previous holder of 30 per cent of Block 32, tried $1,000,300,000 for its 20 per cent share. We will add this share year we consolidated control of the Luanda refinery for operations during 2007/08 $436 million. to commercialise part of its share on the international market in Block 32 to a joint venture we have with the Chinese called and its operational aspects, and studies were car- Vicente In general, these are the outcomes of our finan- without consulting us, the national concessionary, breaking prom- China-Sonangol. ried out to see how to improve and modernise it. cial performance, but I would like to highlight the ises made under legal arrangements, and Sonangol intervened. ‘‘In terms of Sonangol Logística, we continued challenges ahead: it is our vision to transform There was an agreement, made outside of Angola, which What is happening with the refinery in Lobito? The to implement the programme of expanding the capacity of ware- Sonangol P&P and Sonangol Gás Natural (Sonagás) into outstand- involved a consortium of two large Chinese companies and project seems to have slowed down. Has it stopped? housing to improve services. At present, Sonangol is the only oper- ing operators for oil and gas production. Another big task is the Marathon for the sale of 20 per cent of its share in the block. The preliminary work continues. The studies for the engineering ator in this area, but in the future other operators will come in as the management of the decline of the largest fields. As you are aware, government has opened up the market. there are oil fields almost 30 years old; they are nearing the end of The distribution chain has also expanded and more will be their production and others are on the way. done this year. In shipping, we continue to grow. We also consoli- Another challenge will be the replacement of these reservoirs. dated the support given to all internal operations, and we looked We have to be more aggressive in terms of our exploration to strengthen Sonangol Holdings which handles all the social shares campaigns in future. We are going to continue with the amplifica- that Sonangol EP has in other businesses. tion and modernisation of the refinery of Luanda; proceed at a Since we are doing the balance, it is important to highlight that faster speed with the construction of the refinery of Lobito; and there are fundamental indicators that influence our performance. introduce significant improvements in the distribution segment to The operational performance was highly influenced by the adjust- expand the network. This is ment of Opec production quotas imposed on Angola, which meant now more justified with the that the quota for Sonangol fell overall by 15.67 per cent. Lower opening up of the prices also affected our income. These events led to a reduction in market. receipts and foreign exchange sales of 51 per cent. We are also looking to We worked last year with oil priced at an average of $61.74 a enter the petrochemical barrel. The quota for Sonangol was 684,000 barrels per day and the sector and still have in mind average exchange rate was more or less 89 kwanzas to the dollar. In the listing of Sonangol on terms of financial performance, we had sales valued at $13.2 billion, the principal financial mar- costs of about $1 billion and a net operating profit of $2.4 billion. I kets. want to underline that these are only provisional results; we are in
the phase of finalising them for publication. Kamene M Traça
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The costs for this work are much higher than the government had initially approved, so we are seeking
approval for our new budgetary estimations Manuel Vicente “Manuel Vicente Mateus de Brito ” Kamene M Traça and the environment have been done. The costs for this work are André Vieira much higher than the government had initially approved, so we are seeking approval for our new budgetary estimations. Only after the
government validates this can we carry on, but I would like to stress Kamene M Traça that this project has not stopped. The extra investment is $8 billion, whereas the first request made was for an estimated $2 billion. Questions to Mateus de Brito What about the chance of a third refinery in Soyo? This is a private initiative; it’s not coming from Sonangol’s purse. Can you tell us about Sonangol’s interest in São Tomé Just two weeks ago, a meeting took place between the ministry of and Príncipe? petroleum and a group of investors. So this refinery is not dead, it Mateus de Brito: We have been in São Tomé for many years. There is going to happen. are signed agreements. We are engaged not only in the oil sector but also in other areas. Is Sonangol going to continue to invest in areas which Last year, we signed an agreement to hold the customs-free are not core business? area and the exploration of the airport and port. As for the oil issue, We made it clear last year that we are doing these investments on we have carried out consulting activities for the government of São the instructions of the government. It was not Sonangol’s will to Tomé for a better legal structure of its oil activity and a suitable
André Vieira pull out from its core business. We are doing it on the orders of the strategy for oil exploration. state. I have also said that as foreseen by the law, as soon as the state creates a proper way to transfer the shares, it will do so. The whole What about Sonangol’s other international interests? of last year was spent trying to create a sovereign wealth fund which We have been in the Mexican Gulf since 2008. We have a partner- will bring together all these shares and continue to invest in them. ship with Cobalt and Total. We have already drilled the first well up Unfortunately this fund is not yet in place. to a certain objective and are carrying out studies for the conclu- sion of this well. Sonangol International Exploration and Produc- What is happening with Sonangol in Iraq? tion, an enterprise which was created in the US, is monitoring these We were given two concessions costing $200 million and we have activities. been approached by a number of big international companies We are also in Cuba, in the Exclusive Economic Zone, where interested to share the risk with us. But no decision has been made we have two blocks. At the moment we are working on legal and yet. We are registering this intention. There will be an evaluation technical issues and hope to start our activities, mainly seismic and we will make an announcement when a consortium has been studies, this year.
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NEWS NEWS
Francisco de Lemos In the refinery Kamene M Traça sector, the Luanda refinery will continue to be protected. In “the sub-sector of logistics, Sonangol is currently the sole operator and it is almost assured that some subsidy will continue Francisco de Lemos
tected. In the sub-sector of logistics, Sonangol is currently the sole Questions to Francisco de Lemos operator and it is almost assured that some subsidy will continue. In the sub-sector of distribution, the” government wants more competition. Some subsidy, however, will continue in geographic Is Angola sticking to its Opec quota? areas. Because the state needs to give incentives in order to Francisco de Lemos: We are doing our best to meet a certain stimulate investment in remote areas, it will do so through an percentage as required by Opec. This means that in the coming appropriate tax system. years we will also have the same production rate as 2009, which will be 1.8 or 1.9. However, technically there are oscillations in produc- What is the situation with reliance on imported oil tion as other new fields start. We found new fields last year and we products at the moment? São Tomé and Príncipe
need a long-term test to check how productive these reservoirs Sarah Monaghan will be. This is the differential that exists and Opec is aware of this Anabela Fonseca issue. Of the main products that Angola consumes, 70 per cent are cur- for the construction of large, medium and small capacity supply rently from the external market. Having new refinery facilities will posts. What is happening with the Caixa Geral de Depósitos? significantly improve the distribution. We have the Lobito refinery, The Bank of Promotion and Development, a joint-venture by capable of processing 200,000 barrels of oil a day, and Luanda, Sonangol and Caixa Geral de Depósitos, is a partnership between which may increase eventually to 100,000 barrels a day. Question to Anabela Fonseca Angola and Portugal. We had approval from the Conselho de Min- istros in December for the Banco Nacional de Angola to issue a li- What is being done to improve distribution? cence. There is currently an ongoing legal and logistics process in We are seriously investing in the construction and rehabilitation of Why is the Luanda refinery shutting down for a short order to start up the bank. Let’s hope that on the conclusion of this supply posts. By the first half of this year we will have between 10 time this year? process the bank will be operating sometime this year. and 12 in Luanda town, with the possibility of 20 to 25 by the end Anabela Fonseca: Refining facilities stop once every four years or of 2010. But this will not solve the problem immediately, due to the so for maintenance. There is a certain type of inspection that must Will the government continue to subsidise oil sold traffic congestion in Luanda. For this reason we are also improving be carried out on the refinery that cannot be done while it is in op- domestically? the logistic operations and warehousing in Luanda’s surroundings, eration. That is why there will be a complete shutdown for four to Current subsidies will be adjusted and reduced gradually. We do in order not to rely solely on supplies from the Boavista area. six weeks in order to revise and assess all the hardware and equip- not believe that they will be completely removed. While some prod- Driving from Boavista to the nearest post at Marginal takes two ment there. ucts will continue to be subsidised, others will not. It will depend to three hours to travel two or three kilometres, so you can imagine The Luanda refinery is likely to shut at the beginning of May on the tariff system according to the framework of fuel distribution. what the distribution to other areas is like. We are also strengthen- and everything is scheduled for the arrival of the necessary equip-
In the refinery sector, the Luanda refinery will continue to be pro- Kamene M Traça ing warehouse facilities in the outskirts of Luanda and have plans ment and replacement spare parts.
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509m NEWS Taipei Financial Center
474m Tômbua Lândana NEW HEIGHTS tower Tômbua Lândana, the tallest structure in Angolan waters, is an engineering marvel ➔
324m Eiffel Tower, 321m Paris Burj Al Arab hotel, Dubai Richard Duckett/nbillustration.co.uk
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Tower Base Section made in Texas NEWS
t’s one of the world’s largest structures and it’s helping Angola maintain its The main tower, a four-leg Iposition as Africa’s biggest crude oil producer. configuration, is secured to the sea The Tômbua Lândana tower in Angolan waters is an incredible 474m high floor by 12 foundation piles and the (1554ft). That makes it more than a third higher than the Eiffel Tower and almost as platform will provide a drill-deck for high as the Taipei Financial Center in “access to 38 well slots Taiwan, one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world. Tower Base Template and foundation piles Tômbua Lândana is a compliant piled time zones. Maintaining communications Angola, Tômbua in the south of the country shipped from the Netherlands tower located in deepwater offshore and alignment between all those groups, and Lândana just north of Cabinda. Cabinda in Block 14 and came on stream in that’s a challenge,” he added. The Tômbua field was discovered in 1997 Tower Base Section towed to Angola August 2009. It aims to reach peak produc- Global as it is however, like all and Lândana in 2001 and development of tion of 100,000 barrels of oil per day by CABGOC projects in Angola there has been the reservoirs began in 2006. 2011. But it’s not just the size of Tômbua a strong focus on “local content” in terms ” Lândana that sets it apart, it’s also the of training and human capacity and local Difficult project’s global dimension. contracts. As well as Sonamet in Lobito, Brubaker said it made economic and CABGOC used a number of Angolan commercial sense to operate the two fields Global source companies for the project and these together – which so far have “booked” oil Chevron’s Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Angolan contracts are worth more than reserves of more than one billion barrels. It (CABGOC) sourced installation compo- $260 million in direct value to the country’s is Chevron’s third deepwater development nents from four continents from different economy. in Angola and uses similar technology to an suppliers in Scotland, the United States, Training-wise, 23 Angolans from the earlier project in Block 14, Benguela Belize, Korea and Angola: Tômbua Lândana project spent between making it Angola’s second compliant piled ● Drilling templates were built at Son- three to 10 months at Chevron’s Employee tower and only the fourth in the world. amet’s facility in Lobito, in Angola. Resource Training Center in Lafayette, Brubaker explained: “Block 14 is deep- ● The Topside modules were made at Louisiana, learning about Gulf of Mexico water, so the first thing is we need to keep Daewoo’s yard in Okpo, Korea. operations, which like Angola are in everything out of the water. We looked at a ● The tower foundations and templates offshore deepwater environment. number of alternative development were done by Heerema in Vlissingen The training included 16 months of concepts, and basically the ones you can in Holland. on-the-job training, skills fine-tuning and have are ones which float on the surface ● The export pipelines are from Acergy working on various offshore production and those that are fixed to the seabed. Subsea manifold completed in Lobito in Paris, France. platforms. “At this particular water depth it’s a ● The Subsea equipment came from “We strive for a 90 per cent Angolan very difficult decision. In this case – be- Subsea flowlines assembled in Luanda harbour Platform topsides installed offshore Angola Subsea 7 and VetcoGray in Aberdeen, workforce so this training is one of the cause we had 30 wells we had to drill – the Scotland. strategies we use to achieve that goal,” said decision was made that we would use a ● The bottom of the tower section came Brubaker, who works in both Houston and tower construction like we had done with from Gulf Marine Fabricators at Angola. Benguela Belize.” Ingleside, Texas, and the living quar- The tower is fixed to the seabed but ters section from Channelview, also Proficient has been designed to be flexible to resist the in Texas. “We recognised that there were not enough forces of the water. “It flexes with the ● The top of the tower section was put experienced operators in Angola to operate forces,” Brubaker said, who has been together in Houma, Louisiana, by the facility, so very early on we hired local involved with Tômbua Lândana since 2004 Gulf Island Fabrication. labour and started the training that was and the initial technology development “The global extent of the project has necessary to get them proficient offshore. stage. “It’s like the old analogy of the oak definitely been the largest challenge,” said Then we took them over to the US to our tree and the willow in the storm, where the Jeff Brubaker, Tômbua Lândana project training facility in Louisiana, and gave oak tree snaps with the force of the wind, manager. “People were designing and fabri- them very intensive and hands on training but the willow tree bends.” cating all over the world, so we had this onshore and offshore.” The 35,300-short-ton Tômbua Lân- Chevron large team spread out geographically Tômbua Lândana is actually two dana platform is composed of a large inte-
Pictures: around the world all working in different separate fields, named after two towns in grated deck with production facilities
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An illustrated view of the subsea infrastructure required to produce oil from the Tômbua Lândana field. The subsea trees Chevron’s (well heads) are connected via a network of manifolds and pipelines back to the compliant piled tower structure. Cabinda Gulf Oil Company (CABGOC) “operates Tômbua Lândana with a 31% interest. Other shareholders in Block 14 are Sonangol, Italy’s ENI, Total of France and Galp of Portugal
and a 120-person accommodation building supported by a 56,400-short-ton compliant piled tower. The main tower, a four-leg con- figuration, is secured to” the seafloor by twelve foundation piles and the platform will provide a drill deck for access to 38 well slots. The project, expected to run for up to 25 years, has also been designed for zero routing gas flaring and zero discharge of produced water. Associated gas will be processed and stored in Block 0 for later use by the Angola Liquefied Natural Gas facility currently being built in Soyo in northern Angola by Chevron, Sonangol and partners. Saleable This will eliminate huge amounts of harm- ful CO2 that otherwise would be flared and turns what has previously been a by- product into a saleable commodity. CAB- GOC operates Tômbua Lândana with a 31% interest. Other shareholders in Block 14 are Sonangol, Italy’s ENI, Total of France and
Chevron Galp of Portugal.
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NEWS EXTRAORDINARY EXPLORATION Severino Cardoso, the director of DEX, Sonangol’s exploration directorate, talks to Universo about its role
How did you begin your career? How long have you basins. This data will be used to calculate the oil resources of the been at Sonangol and how long have you been in blocks in those basins, mainly in the pre-salt. An aeromagnetic sur- your present job? vey is being done by Sonangol to delineate the basement morphol- In 1976, I joined the Algerian Institute Superior of Petroleum with ogy and to plan a new 3D seismic survey in the offshore Kwanza a lot of other Angolans, some of whom are still Sonangol employ- deep open acreage. ees. Four years later, I joined Sonangol as a geophysicist. In 1989, I graduated as a petroleum engineer from Agostinho Neto University What have been Sonangol’s main exploration in Luanda. I have been trained in many things at Sonangol. In 1985, achievements in the last few years? I did a three-month course in seismic processing at CGG University, In the last few years, we have discovered resources of 7.87 billion and in 1989 I trained in seismic acquisition and processing in Brazil barrels in Angola, which represents an annual average of 1.12 bil- with Petrobras. The following year, I spent 12 months at Halliburton lion barrels of oil. We are very confident that this year we will over- Geophysical in Bedford, England, training in exploration geo- take this average. This is the result of exploration activity over many physics. In 1992, I was appointed head of Sonangol’s Geophysical years. Since 1984, Sonangol has been doing non-exclusive seismic Department, and in 2005 I was appointed head of Sonangol Explo- surveys in shallow and deepwater sedimentary acreages. Along ration Direction (DEX). with these extraordinary oil exploration achievements, we should emphasise the local content development. Five local processing What are the main features of your job as exploration centres and two G&G [geology and geophysics] centres so far have director? How many people are in your department been built in Angola. Those centres along with Sonangol-DEX are and how big is the budget? supporting the oil industry and the universities by providing final I supervise and control all petroleum exploration activities in degree training to the students and offering first training and Angola. I evaluate, divide the blocks and promote the Angolan employment after graduation.
sedimentary acreages. DEX has a staff of 123 people, divided into Photolibrary six departments. The 2009 budget was $120 million. What are the main challenges for your department over the next few years? How do you view the pre-salt discoveries in Brazil in imentary basins, so this means that only 10 per cent of the oil What are the main projects your department is in- The main challenges are to maintain the extraordinary perform- regard to what may be found under Angolan waters? resources have been discovered. The future of the oil industry in volved in? ance of DEX over the last few years – in which one billion barrels of Angolan and Brazilian margins are genetically correlated as we Africa is very promising. Our aim is to increase Angolan oil reserves. This strategy can be oil per year were discovered – and to continue the local content share the same pre-salt depositional environment and tectonic his- explained in five points: world oil exploration references; identify- development by implanting G&G centres in Angola to support the tory. In this context the possibility of making similar discoveries in What vision do you have for your department? ing new potential basins; evaluating Angola’s new sedimentary industry and the Sonangol exploration objectives. This will be done the Angolan basins is very likely. Right now, Sonangol-DEX is The administration council objectives are to maintain or increase basins; applying new technology; and local content development. by looking for unexplored offshore basins, searching for new plays focusing on an exploration challenge in the pre-salt play in Angola. Angolan oil reserves from the actual plateau. Based on this, We have planned and budgeted several projects, along with [prospects in the same region that are controlled by the same set of An aggressive programme was implemented to evaluate both the Sonangol-DEX is implementing the exploration strategy referred to restructuring DEX from three to six departments to face this task. geological circumstances], and providing a new strong insight into onshore and offshore pre-salt potential. For us, Brazil’s experience above. Because of the civil war, the onshore acreages were not very Consequently, the main projects are the evaluation of oil re- the onshore basins. and results are a very good example of what we may achieve in the well explored. With the interior now at peace, the vision is to rein- sources of the onshore and offshore Congo, Kwanza, Benguela, very near future. force the exploration activity of the onshore and interior basins. By Namibe and interior basins. In the onshore Kwanza Basin, a How important is Angola’s membership of Opec to restructuring DEX, Sonangol has created a field geological depart- 2,000km, 2D seismic survey is being done by Sonangol-DEX to sup- your department? How do you see the future of the oil industry in ment with the objective to improve the studies of those basins. DEX port this evaluation. Technically speaking, in my opinion as exploration director, I Africa? has high-performance activity offshore and will follow this on- In the interior basins, a 100km aeromagnetic and gravity sur- believe it is important to exchange professional experience. The With the new technology currently being used in the oil industry, shore. The aim is to maintain this goal by using new technologies, vey was completed which will be used to delineate a future seismic benefit of Opec membership is that we can exchange oil explo- the possibility of finding oil in the African sedimentary platform is advanced training of staff, and by implementing joint projects with programme. A long offset seismic survey is being done to get a bet- ration experience with other members. very good. In Angola, the future looks impressive. Angolan oil pro- oil and service companies. ter image in the offshore Congo, Kwanza and Namibe deepwater duction comes only from the Congo Basin, but Angola has 11 sed-
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SONANGOL: THE GLOBAL PICTURE
USA Sonangol USA is responsible for marketing and commercialisation of Sonangol’s oil UK and gas in the United States. Sonangol UK is responsible for marketing and commercialisation of Sonangol’s oil and gas in the UK.
London Cuba India Sonangol P&P is starting explo- Portugal Sonangol has signed an MOU with ration in Cuba in two blocks, and Sonangol has invested in compa- India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp hopes to start technical activity, nies here including Millennium BCP (ONGC) to work together on future principally seismic studies, by the and Amorim Energia. Lisbon exploration activities in Angola, end of 2010. India and other countries. Iraq Houston Cape Verde Sonangol Cabo Verde Nigeria Iraq Sonangol P&P Havana Sonangol bought exploration rights India Hong Kong Gulf of for the Qayara and Najmah fields in Mexico northern Iraq in December 2009 and says it has received many offers from Cape Verde international companies for development of the sites. Nigeria Hong Kong China Sonangol engages Gulf of Mexico in oil, gas and minerals Sonangol P&P, the first African oil São Tomé and Príncipe Singapore Ecuador Gabon investment and explo- company to be operating in the Sonangol São Tomé and Príncipe is São Gabon Sonangol P&P is in part- ration, crude oil trading Gulf of Mexico, is working with currently working to develop the Tomé nership with Addax Petro- and large-scale national Cobalt Energy and Total. islands’ airport and port. Soyo leum and Tullow Oil reconstruction projects. Offshore With the headquarter Luanda office in Hong Kong, the company also has Lobito branch offices in China, Africa and Latin Amer- ica.
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Angola Luanda – Sonangol headquarters. Base for Sonangol P&P, Son- Ecuador Brazil Air, Sonangol Logística, Sonangol Distribuidora, Sonangol Ship- Following the signing of an MOU between Sonangol plans to invest $1 billion in the next ping, MSTelcom and Essa. Singapore Ecuador and Angola in October 2009, two years, working with Brazilian operator Sonangol Asia is responsible for Soyo: Sonagás is involved with the Angola LNG project. Sonangol plans to invest $1.5 billion in Starfish. marketing and commercialisation of blocks 28 and 29 in upstream and Lobito: Sonaref is developing a new refinery. Sonangol’s oil and gas in the Asian exploration activities with Ecuador’s state market. Offshore: Sonangol P&P has concessions and operational oil company Petroecuador. interests in various production and exploration blocks Picture: iStockphoto.com onshore and offshore and in deepwater and ultra deepwater.
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