S O N A N G O L U N I V E R S O Universo JUNE 2 011 Sounds sensational I S S U E LURING TOURISTS: OLDEST ALLY: FIGURES OF POWER: 3 0 – how Luanda’s visitor why Brazil enjoys such Paris bows to the force INSIDE: J U N appeal is widening close links with Angola of Angolan art oil and gas news E 2 0 1 1 Universo is the international magazine of Sonangol Board Members INSID E THI S ISSUE Manuel Vicente (President), Anabela Fonseca, Mateus de Brito, Fernando Roberto, Francisco de Lemos, ur June edition throws light on different aspects of life in Baptista Sumbe, Sebastião Gaspar Martins Angola, reflecting its increasingly dynamic economy and Sonangol Department for reconstruction process. Communication & Image O Improvements in the quality of Luanda’s hotels along with the Director João Rosa Santos attractions of the capital’s short-break tourism options are examined in Corporate Communications our Luring Tourists feature. Assistants We follow this with an X-ray of Brazil’s long-standing connections Nadiejda Santos, Lúcio Santos, with Angola, relations that continue to expand, especially in the buoyant José Mota, Beatriz Silva, Paula Almeida, Sandra Teixeira, services sector. Marta Sousa Angolan music in its multiple and infectious forms is the theme of Publisher our third feature. Angola has not only inspired Brazilian samba but Sheila O’Callaghan newer genres, such as kuduro, which are wowing audiences worldwide. Editor John Kolodziejski Their sensationally elastic dance moves make Michael Jackson’s Art Director routines appear almost wooden in comparison. Tony Hill Paris, the birthplace of Cubism, is the fitting venue for our fourth Sub Editor story, where Angolan art is on show. Universo reviews the exhibition of Ron Gribble Angolan artefacts of a kind that served as inspiration for this giant step Circulation Manager Matthew Alexander towards modern abstract art. 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To receive a free copy: p p a D [email protected] e é 30 16 e s u Circulation: 17,000 M The Universo team while in Luanda stay at: www.hotelrouxinol.com Davenport House 16 Pepper Street, London E14 9RP Tel + 44 20 7510 9595 Fax +44 20 7510 9596 [email protected] a k o s s i K 48 o s s Cover: Chris Saunders e m i K 2 SONANGOL UNIVERSO CONTENTS . d t L ) a l o g n A ( n o i l t t a a r h b c o o l l 6 22 e 43 r p G x b P E e d P M B O P 4 AngolA news briefing 30 AngolA’s HeArtbeAt Angola’s giant dinosaur named; China’s Vice-Premier An A-Z of Angola’s music with a panorama of the visits Luanda; Russian credit boosts Angola satellite current scene in Luanda project; Namibe-Lubango railroad on track; Luanda sea John Kolodziejski, Editor terminals plan; Angola gets World Bank anti-poverty sonAngol news briefing loan; Luanda clampdown on traffic crime; Angola’s 39 largest import; Angolan census date set Sonangol pens 30-year São Tomé port and airport concession; El Paso Mississippi plant on schedule to receive Angolan LNG; Sonangol invests in accident figured out 5 prevention; Sonangol plans new office in Venezuela; A brief look at Angola in numbers Girassol Clinic starts paediatric heart surgery programme; Sonangol backs Saurimo schools; 6 luring tourists Sonangol rally team wins Desert Challenge race; Luanda’s hotel sector is rising fast in quantity and Sonangol petrol stations boom; go-ahead for more quality, helping provide growing visitor numbers subsalt wells; Sonangol drilling in Iraq begins for the embryonic local tourism industry which is also enjoying easier access to beaches, mountains and wildlife 43 PlAnet suite suCCess Sonangol names its latest floating production storage and offloading vessel, PVSM, after four planets, each 16 AngolAn Art letter representing an oilfield off Angola’s coast A look at inspirational Angolan art, traditional and modern, in Paris’ Dapper Museum 48 leAder role in refining Sonangol vice-president Anabela Fonseca takes the 22 oldest strAtegiC AllY chair of the African Refiners Association, which aims Brazil and Angola’s relationship dates back to the 16th to attract greater investment to the sector century but only fully-flowered in a mutually- beneficial way after Angola’s independence. Today, both countries are not only trading but investing 50 AngolA CountrY inforMAtion heavily in each other’s assets The key facts and figures JUNE 2011 3 Ang ola ne ws briefing Set for liftoff Angola’s giant Angola has been granted a loan worth $278.5 million from Russia’s Export and Import Bank to fund a new satellite project. Placing the satellite, planned since 2008, will make it possible to provide international access, support and expan- sion of broadband internet services, transmission to telecommunications operators and access to support for television and radio network services. The financing agreement for the An- gosat project was signed by Angola’s Fi- nance Minister Carlos Lopes and the chairman of Russia’s Eximbank, Nikolai Gavrilov, representing a syndicate of Russian banks including the Development and Foreign Trade Bank, Roseximbank and VPD. The satellite is expected to be sent into orbit by a Russian operator The first dinosaur found in Angola has been named the Angolatitan adamastor. in 2012. Angolatitan means ‘Angolan giant’ and adamastor refers to the mythical sea giant of the South Atlantic feared by Portuguese sailors. The long-necked sauropod was uncovered in 2005 about 70km north of Luanda by Portuguese paleontologist Octá vio Mateus from Portugal’s Universidade Nova de Desert line Lisboa and Museum of Lourinhã. Remains of the large plant-eating dinosaur, which was believed to have been 13 on track metres long and lived 90 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period, were The Moçâmedes train line (CFM) found in marine sediments. from Namibe to Lubango is due “These and other fossils tell us an amazing story about the climate and climate to relaunch in 2011. It will be followed change in this part of the world,” says Louis Jacobs from the Southern Methodist by the Benguela Railway (CFB), which University, who is a member of the Mateus PaleoAngola Project team. “In an oil- links the port town of Lobito with the producing country like Angola, this project helps us to understand the geology of the eastern border with Zambia via region and the implications for its richness.” Huambo in the heart of the country. The detailed description, in which the Angolatitan adamastor officially received its The Caminhos de Ferro de Luanda scientific name, was presented in the publication Anais da Academia Brasileira de (CFL) opened for service in late Ciências (Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences). December 2010 linking the capital As well as discovering Angola’s first dinosaur, the PaleoAngola team has uncovered Luanda with Malange. mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, turtles and other cretaceous marine animals. The long-term goal of the project is to create a strong and lasting institutional and scientific collaboration with Angolan academia. China raises co-operation Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan visited Luanda on a two-day visit to promote relations between China and Angola. The two countries established a strategic partnership in 2010, and Wang Qishan said a ç a China was ready to increase its co-operation with Angola. New areas in the partnership, he r T M e said, could include trade, energy, mining and the agricultural sectors. n e m a K 4 SONANGOL UNIVERSO Figured out Sea terminals plan Angola is to get eight maritime passenger terminals Five along the coast of new hospitals are being built Luanda, Transport in Luanda during 2011 Minister Augusto da Silva Tomás told parliament. The sites will be at the slave museum (near Luanda golf course), e t o c Panguila, Samba and a P o i r Benfica with longer-term a M .55 plans to extend the scheme to Cabinda, Zaire, Benguela and Namibe – and to rivers in Kuando Kubango. Last year a private water-taxi service began commuter services between Futungo, Luanda Sul, Sonils and Ilha do Cabo in the centre of Luanda. 8mil lion World Bank loan carats of diamonds produced by Angola in 2010 The World Bank has lent Angola $81.7 million to fund development projects. The money will be spent on local schemes run by the government’s anti-poverty agency, the Social Action Fund. It includes developing infrastructure, strengthening institutions and improving local economic opportunities. 399,469 Red light for traffic crime expatriates living in Angola The provincial government of Luanda has created a special unit to combat traffic problems and reduce congestion in the city. Plans include cracking down on traffic- O law violations by using cameras to record them, and having extra traffic signalling in order O to promote freer flow of vehicles. There are also plans for increased public transport services, particularly to outlying areas. 1GDP0 growth p.red5iction for Cement leads imports Census date set 2012 by IMF Cement is Angola’s largest import A full population census is to be item. Figures from the Conselho carried out in Angola in 2013. Amount to be spent on preserving Nacional de Carregadores (CNC) show The long-awaited study will collect data the Palanca Negra giant antelope: that Angola imported more than 14 million on all aspects of Angolans’ lifestyles tonnes of goods in 2010 with cement including occupation, income, living making up 19 per cent of that total.