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Spotlight | Angola
Winners and losers as Gaspar Martins and João Lourenço shake up Sonangol

Amid plummeting crude prices, Angola's president has decided to make sweeping changes to Sonangol, the state oil firm. But not everyone is happy. [...]

Published on 27/05/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Deloitte & Touche confirms status as leading oil auditor

Le ministère angolais des finances, dirigé par Vera Daves, vient de sélectionner Deloitte & Touche, filiale locale du cabinet de conseil Deloitte, pour réaliser l'audit des comptes des sociétés pétrolières pour les années 2021-2022.

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Quanten Consortium painstakingly tries to inject life into Soyo refinery project

The government's Soyo refinery project, which has been advancing at a snail's pace, is finally showing a few signs of life after months at a standstill.

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Why Sonangol won't see increase in oil output from Luanda refinery this year

The work carried out by the Italian firm Maire Tecnimont to improve the performance of the country's only oil refinery will not be complete by mid-2021 as planned.

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Spotlight | Angola
Sonangol determined to oust Isabel dos Santos's husband from its Dutch subsidiary

Angola's national oil company Sonangol has accused local businessman Sindika Dokolo of buying into its Dutch offshoot Esperaza at a discounted rate and has managed to convince a Dutch court to examine the case.

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Isabel dos Santos and her husband Sindika Dokolo, in 2011.

Angola
ANPG boss Jeronimo tries to save appearances in Kwanza and Congo basins

With oil production in Angola in free fall, exploration has been at a standstill since the start of the second quarter. The situation is likely to last until at least the end of 2020.

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Angola
IMF calls for settlement of overindulgent dos Santos-era loans

As the IMF starts the third review of its Angolan programme, João Lourenço's administration is working overtime to seek repayments on the state-owned bank BPC's bad credit, now all held with Recredit.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics, Business 28.05.2020

Angola
Unrepaid Dos Santos era loans risk becoming an economic fragmentation bomb

Choked as it is by the fall in oil prices, Angola is already dangerously exposed to the risk of being unable to reimburse its private debt. Its finances have been complicated by another problem, however.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics 08.05.2020

Former President José Eduardo dos Santos created the public company Recredit in 2016 to take care of the toxic claims of the PCB.

Angola
Why is attorney Gros after China International Fund, Sonangol's ally?

By seizing property from Sonangol's partner, China International Fund, the attorney general is declaring war on the architecture of Angola's relations with China, Manuel Vicente.

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Sonangol privatisation: behind the scenes of Lourenço's last chance operation

While the economy is continuing to suffer with the drop in national oil output, Luanda is busy preparing the sale of the state-owned firm in the background. Here's how.

Subscribers only Energy 18.02.2020

Spotlight | Angola
Manuel Vicente's circles still in command of oil dollars

Former Angolan vice president and ex-Sonangol chairman Manuel Vicente may have had to leave executive government when President João Lourenço stepped into office in 2017, he certainly hasn't lost any of the stronghold of the country's oil industry he patiently [.

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Sonangol privatisation: Luanda's tactics to bump up bidding

Luanda has grand ambitions for the state-owned Sonangol in 2022, the year it is planned to be partly privatised. The [...]

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Sonangol reshuffle gives Vaalco its freedom

Three years after announcing that it was calling quits on its operations in Angola, the American junior Vaalco Energy can [...]

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Angola ANPG boss Jeronimo tries to save appearances in Kwanza and Congo basins

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Spotlight | Angola
Winners and losers as Gaspar Martins and João Lourenço shake up Sonangol

Angola
Deloitte & Touche confirms status as leading oil auditor

Angola
Quanten Consortium painstakingly tries to inject life into Soyo refinery project

Angola
Why Sonangol won't see increase in oil output from Luanda refinery this year

Spotlight | Angola
Sonangol determined to oust Isabel dos Santos's husband from its Dutch subsidiary

Angola
ANPG boss Jeronimo tries to save appearances in Kwanza and Congo basins

Angola
IMF calls for settlement of overindulgent dos Santos-era loans

Angola
Unrepaid Dos Santos era loans risk becoming an economic fragmentation bomb

Angola
Why is attorney Gros after China International Fund, Sonangol's ally?

Angola
Sonangol privatisation: behind the scenes of Lourenço's last chance operation

Spotlight | Angola
Manuel Vicente's circles still in command of oil dollars

Angola
Sonangol privatisation: Luanda's tactics to bump up bidding

Angola
Sonangol reshuffle gives Vaalco its freedom