HOUSTON, TEXAS and LONDON, UK (By Baker Hughes, 25.Jun.2026, Words: 252) — Baker Hughes announced a significant award from Azule Energy to provide subsea production systems to support safe, efficient operations in Angola’s Greater PAJ development. Under the agreement, Baker Hughes will supply its deepwater horizontal tree systems to optimize production […]
Category: Angola
Eni boasts start of gas delivery from the Quiluma field, offshore Angola
ATLANTA, GEORGIA (By Chad Archey, Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Mar.2026, Words: 202) — Eni celebrated the first gas delivery from the new gas consortium (NGC)’s Quiluma field, a major milestone for Angola’s energy sector. Initial gas export from Quiluma is expected at 150 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscf/d). And, Eni […]
PRESS DIGEST 17 MAR. 2026: General Mill’s Brazil exit; Eni output offshore Angola; MORENA
MONTERREY, MEXICO (By editors with Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Mar.2026, Words: 225) — The following briefs are the top stories from the top media outlets on 17 Mar. 2026 across the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and beyond, as compiled by editors from Energy Analytics Institute (EAI). EAI has not verified […]
TotalEnergies reports start-up of new gas consortium Quiluma offshore gas field
ATLANTA, GEORGIA (By Chad Archey, Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Mar.2026, Words: 185) — TotalEnergies started production from the Quiluma field in Angola. This is the first development of a non-associated gas field in the African country. The gas produced will be a stable and important source of gas supply for the Angola […]
Seadrill reveals contract extension for Sonangol Quenguela in Angola with Sonangol
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (By Steve Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Mar.2026, Words: 99) — Seadrill Limited announced Sonadrill Holding Ltd, its 50:50 joint venture with an affiliate of Sonangol E.P., has been awarded a contract extension. Seadrill earns a management fee for providing management, operational and technical support to Sonadrill. A 7-well […]
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EAI brief: Chevron details 2025-2030 project activities from Angola to Guyana [info. graph]
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (By Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 25.Feb.2026, Words: 95) — Chevron Corporation eyes continued 2025-2030 major capital project activity from 2025-2030 spanning from Africa to South America and beyond. This, according to new details revealed to investors in a Feb. 2026 presentation.
McDermott delivers first subsea project offshore Angola for France’s TotalEnergies
HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Isaac Silvestre, Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Oct.2025, Words: 292) — McDermott revealed the safe and successful completion of engineering, procurement, construction, installation, pre-commissioning and commissioning activities for TotalEnergies‘ Begonia field development. Begonia is located in block 17/06, approximately 150km off the coast of Angola, and marks McDermott’s first subsea project […]
Oceaneering inks Esso contract for Angola block 15 for ROV services and integrated solutions
ATLANTA, GEORGIA (Chad Archey, Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Jul.2025, Words: 226) — Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that its subsidiaries, Oceaneering Angola, S.A. and Oceaneering Marine Technologies Ltd., have been awarded a contract by Esso Exploration Angola (block 15) Limited, an affiliate of ExxonMobil, for services in support of Esso’s offshore operations […]
ANPG, ExxonMobil and partners in Angola’s block 15 ink PSC that expires in 2037
HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 14.Jul.2025, Words: 252) — Angola’s National Agency for Oil, Gas, and Biofuels (ANPG) and the partners of the block 15 contractor group, operated by ExxonMobil and partners Azule Energy, Equinor, and Sonangol E&P, signed an addendum to the block 15 production sharing […]
NRGBriefs May 2025: Chevron’s Wirth on Venezuela, GranMorgu, Petrobras on Proquigel
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 31.May.2025, Words: 5,844) — Global energy, finance and project briefs as well as other from the front pages of the top newspapers across Latin America and the Caribbean during May 2025. RELATED: Chevron says CABGOC responds to an incident at BBLT platform
Chevron confirms 3 dead in Angola after BBLT incident
ATLANTA, GEORGIA (Chad Archey, Energy Analytics Institute, 29.May.2025, Words: 499) — Chevron Corporation confirmed the death of a third contractor as a result of the Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) incident in Angola that occurred on 20 May 2025. RELATED: Chevron says CABGOC responds to an incident at BBLT platform
Chevron says CABGOC responds to an incident at BBLT platform
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 20.May.2025, Words: 193) — Chevron Corporation announced that at approximately 3:10am a fire occurred on the cellar deck of CABGOC’s Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) deepwater facility, located in Block 14 offshore Cabinda. All personnel on board have been accounted for, Chevron announced […]
Fire at Chevron oil platform offshore Angola injures 17
CAPE TOWN, AFRICA (Reuters, 20.May.2025, Words: 185) — Seventeen people were injured, four seriously, when a fire broke out in the early hours of Tuesday at Chevron‘s deep-water Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) oil platform, Angolan authorities and the US oil major said in statements. The cause of the fire, […]
EAI’s ‘Africa NRG Insights’ investor report (FREE PDF download-prologue)
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Jun.2024, Words: 136) — Energy Analytics Institute‘s recently released ‘Africa NRG Insights’: Africa’s ‘Just’ Energy Transition: An Investor’s Perspective on Opportunities and Challenges, explores the continent’s resources and opportunities as well as its major headwinds. The full 42-page report taps into the insights and thoughts […]
Baker Hughes Awarded Order for Kaminho Project in Angola
(Baker Hughes, 15.Oct.2024) — Baker Hughes has been awarded a contract, to be booked in the third quarter, to supply advanced compression solutions to Saipem for TotalEnergies’ Kaminho Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) project in Angola. Baker Hughes’ centrifugal BCL compressor and Integrated Compressor Line (ICL) technology were selected because of their capacity […]
Flex LNG on Mandatory Notification of Trade by PDMR
(Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Sep.2024) — Flex LNG Ltd. said it has received trade notifications from the following two persons discharging managerial responsibilities (PDMR). Øystein Kalleklev, CEO of Flex LNG Management AS, has in the period 18-19 Sep. 2024 exercised 100,000 options and subsequently sold 100,000 shares on New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) […]
POWERCHINA Alleviates Harsh Conditions with Construction Projects
(Power Construction Corp. of China, 9.Aug.2024) — Power Construction Corporation of China continues to do its part to alleviate the harsh summer climate change challenges affecting many regions worldwide. The company’s series of construction projects and actions have enhanced the flood control and drought resistance capabilities of various regions in Americas, Africa, and Asia, improved […]
Rockefeller Foundation Green Power Gap
(Rockefeller, 7.Aug.2024) — The Rockefeller Foundation released a new report that calculates an 8,700 terawatt-hour (TWh) “Green Power Gap” across 72 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Currently home to 3.8 billion people, these countries must deploy 8,700 TWh of clean power by 2050 – approximately twice the United States’ annual generation – […]
SLB OneSubsea Awarded Contract for TotalEnergies’ Kaminho Project
(SLB, 3.Jul.2024) — SLB has announced the award of a contract by TotalEnergies to its OneSubsea™ joint venture for a 13-well Subsea Production System scope, including associated equipment and services, in the development of the Kaminho project, offshore Angola. The project will be developed by TotalEnergies and its Block 20/11 […]
Aker Solutions Secures Brownfield, Modification Frame Deal with Azule Energy
(Aker Solutions, 6.Jun.2024)) — Aker Solutions secured a sizeable (1) long term frame agreement with Azule Energy to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services (EPC) for brownfield projects and modifications for two FPSOs in Angola. This is a continuation of the current frame agreement Aker Solutions has with the operator […]
The US and Angola: Partnering for Prosperity
(US State Department, 24.Jan.2024) — Secretary Antony J. Blinken will visit Luanda, Angola, 24-25 Jan. 2024, where he will meet with President João Lourenço and Foreign Minister Tete Antonio to discuss the U.S.-Angola bilateral relationship and commitments made during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit on key areas such as climate, food security, global health cooperation, economic engagement, […]
Coretrax Reveals Sales and Operations Appointments
(Coretrax, 19.Dec.2023) — Coretrax, an oil and gas well integrity and production optimisation, has appointed Colin Graham as the company’s first sales and operations manager for Africa as it plans for further growth in the region. Colin joins the business with nearly four decades of oil and gas industry […]
Chevron, Angola Gov’t to Collaborate on Low-Carbon Opportunities
(Chevron, 30.Oct.2023) — Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited (CABGOC), a Chevron’s subsidiary in Angola, hosted in Luanda a signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Chevron New Energies, a Chevron U.S.A. Inc. division, and the Angola government to explore potential lower carbon business opportunities in Angola. Chevron and the […]
TAAG Angola Airlines to Renew Fleet with Boeing 787 Dreamliners
(Boeing, 10.Oct.2023) — Boeing [NYSE: BA] and TAAG Angola Airlines announced that the African carrier is adding the highly fuel-efficient 787 Dreamliner to its fleet with an order for four widebody jets. “Our goal is to work with the best manufacturers in the world towards a multi-type fleet, in order to […]
Eni Tops TotalEnergies as Africa’s Top Producer
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Sep.2023) — Eni actually takes the top spot as Africa’s top producer, not TotalEnergies, according to Welligence Energy Analytics. Producing around 900,000 boe/d, 40% of Eni’s output comes from Algeria and Libya. The rest is sourced from Nigeria, Ghana, Congo-Brazzaville, Mozambique, Angola and Tunisia, Welligence announced 11 […]
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An African Gas Renaissance En Route to a ‘Just Energy Transition’ [PDF Download]
(The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 5.Sep.2023) — The impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on the natural gas trade, inter alia, continues to be felt well beyond Europe’s borders. As the accelerated decarbonisation of the world’s economies is being pushed forward, Europe’s unexpected interest in alternative sources of gas imports […]
TechnipFMC Awarded Contract by TotalEnergies for Girassol Project
(TechnipFMC, 23.Aug.2023) — TechnipFMC (NYSE: FTI) has been awarded a significant(1) contract to install flexible pipe and associated subsea structures for the Girassol Life Extension project (GIR LIFEX) by TotalEnergies EP Angola and its Block 17 Partners. The Company was previously awarded the engineering, procurement, and supply of subsea flowlines and […]
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IGU 2023 World LNG Report [PDF Download]
(IGU, 20.Jul.2023) — The International Gas Union (IGU) presented its 14th annual edition of the IGU World LNG report. ____________________
How the Russia-Ukraine War is Changing Energy Markets
(WoodMac, 23.Feb.2023) — Ukraine’s battle is existential. The country has suffered a year of lost lives, its people forced to live each day in perpetual fear and witness the destruction of homes, communities and infrastructure. Millions have fled the country. Russia’s war has had a huge impact outside Ukraine, too, […]
TechnipFMC Awarded Contract by TotalEnergies EP Angola
(TechnipFMC, 20.Feb.2023) — TechnipFMC (NYSE: FTI) has been awarded a significant(1) contract to supply flexible pipe and associated hardware for the first subsea life extension project by TotalEnergies EP Angola and its Block 17 Partners in West Africa. The contract covers the engineering, procurement, and supply of flowlines and connectors […]
Azule Energy Begins Operations in Angola
(Eni, 2.Aug.2022) — bp and Eni confirmed that Azule Energy, the new 50/50 independent joint venture combining the two companies’ Angolan businesses, has been officially established. Azule Energy is now Angola’s largest independent equity producer of oil and gas, holding 2 billion barrels equivalent of net resources and growing to […]
TechnipFMC Says 2Q:22 Subsea Inbound Orders Were $1,928mn
(TechnipFMC, 27.Jul.2022) — TechnipFMC plc announced subsea inbound orders were $1,928mn for the second quarter of 2022. Book-to-bill in the period was 1.4. The following awards were included in the period: — ExxonMobil Yellowtail Project (Guyana)Awarded an additional contract and received notice to proceed for the Yellowtail development in the Stabroek […]
3t EnerMech to Provide Exclusive ECITB training in Angola and Guyana
(3t EnerMech, 18.Jul.2022) — 3t EnerMech signed a four-year exclusivity agreement with the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) to become the sole provider of its licenced training in Angola and Guyana. The strategic alliance between 3t Energy Group and EnerMech, will deliver unique ECITB accredited skills programmes through its […]
New Contract in Angola for Seadrill Joint Venture
(Seadrill, 25.Apr.2022) — Seadrill Limited announced a new contract has been secured by Sonadrill Holding Ltd, Seadrill’s 50:50 joint venture with an affiliate of Sonangol E.P. Sonadrill has secured a ten-well contract with options for up to eight additional wells in Angola for the West Gemini drillship. Total contract value […]
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NRGBriefs: Chevron Corp.’s $2bn debt in Venezuela [PDF downloads]
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Mar.2022, Words: 583) — Energy briefs including ExxonMobil Angola celebrating an important milestone for the Kizomba A FPSO in its achieving its 1000th crude offload; Petrobras filing its Form 20-F for the year ended 31 Dec. 2021; Ecopetrol reporting that the ordinary General […]
NRGBriefs: Renewable Energy Ops In The Caribbean
(Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Oct.2021) — Energy briefs including details of four renewable energy-exporting opportunities in the Caribbean in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana; TotalEnergies extending the contract for the Maersk Voyager in Angola for Ondjaba-1; and more. EVENTS — The Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum 2021 takes place from […]
Maersk Gets Contract Extension In Angola
(Maersk Drilling, 15.Oct.2021) — TotalEnergies E&P Angola has exercised an option for the 7th generation drillship Maersk Voyager to drill the ultra-deepwater Ondjaba-1 exploration well in Angola’s Block 48. The contract extension has an estimated duration of 54 days, which means that Maersk Voyager is now contracted until February 2022. […]
Total Starts Production From Zinia Phase 2
(Total, 6.May.2021) — Total (Paris: FP) (LSE: TTA) (NYSE: TOT), operator of Block 17 in Angola, together with the Angolan National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency, announce the start of production from Zinia Phase 2 short-cycle project, connected to existing Pazflor’s FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading unit). The project […]
Africa’s Richest Woman to Cooperate In Corruption Probe
(Bloomberg, 7.Jul.2020) — Isabel dos Santos, who is accused of causing billions of dollars in losses to the Angolan government during her father’s 38-year rule, said she is available to cooperate with authorities to clear her name and find out the truth. “What I want to resolve as quickly as […]
Galileo Sales VP Gabriel Lorenzi Interviewed By GBR
(Global Business Reports, 9.Apr.2020) — Twenty years ago it was impossible to think about an off-grid natural gas network. Today, Africa can build it with our innovative and efficient technologies, which work very well both in large producing countries and those looking at gas imports or monetizing small gas fields. […]
Oceaneering Awarded Well Intervention Contract By BP
(Oceaneering, 10.Feb.2020) — Oceaneering International, Inc. announced the award by units of BP p.l.c., of a contract to provide comprehensive riserless light well intervention (RLWI) services offshore Angola in Blocks 18 and 31. The value of this meaningful award is reflected in our 31 December 2019 Subsea Products backlog. In […]