By Tom Wilson and Candido Mendes (Bloomberg) — Angola’s oil minister accused neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo’s government of wrecking an agreement to jointly develop offshore oilfields after it failed...

ExxonMobil has announced this week that oil production has commenced at the Kizomba Satellites Phase 2 project in Block 15 offshore Angola. The company says Phase 2 of this project consists of subsea tiebacks from the...

Eni announced this week their N’Goma FPSO has commenced oil production from the West Hub Development Project located in deepwater Block 15/16 offshore Angola approximately 350 kilometres northwest of Luanda and...

She was once the FPSO Xikomba, and prior to that she was known as the tanker Mosocean, and prior still as ESSO Bonn, a crude oil tanker owned by Exxon.  As of last week...

By Colin McClelland and Manuel Soque April 25 (Bloomberg) — Angola’s main port installed new cranes and provided more training to reduce its cargo unloading time by 80 percent as...

Following Total E&P Angola’s $16 billion final investment decision on Monday, Technip and Heerema Marine Contractors have been awarded the largest SURF (subsea, umbilical, riser, flowline) contract ever to develop...

Total and its joint venture partners have made the $16 billion final investment decision today to develop the ultra-deepwater Kaombo project offshore Angola. With a production capacity of 230,000 barrels...

Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) — The reported hijacking of Greek oil tanker Kerala off the Angolan coast earlier this month was fabricated by the crew and the vessel’s owner, according to...

Dynacom Tankers has announced today that communications with their missing tanker, MT Kerala has been re-established and all crew are safe and accounted for.  The shipowner states that pirates had...

Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, ConocoPhillips and Statoil ASA are among oil explorers investing at least $3 billion in wells off Angola next year in the country’s biggest deepwater...

July 23 (Bloomberg) — The Angolan capital Luanda has overtaken Tokyo to become the world’s most expensive city for expatriates in a survey of 214 cities by Mercer, which cited...

By Emma Farge GENEVA, July 16 (Reuters) – Angola’s monthly crude exports will slip in September to 1.67 million barrels per day (bpd), a provisional shipping list showed, indicating that...

June 16 (Bloomberg) — Chevron Corp.’s $10 billion Angola LNG plant shipped its first cargo today after an 18-month delay prompted by fires, labor shortages and U.S. shale drilling that...

Rates to ship liquefied natural gas will benefit from the startup of the Angola LNG export facility as vessels dedicated to the project stop competing for spot cargoes.

Statoil announced today that they have signed a three year contract with Stena Drilling to contract their drillship, Stena Carron, for exploration drilling in the pre-salt blocks (Blocks 38 and 39)...

IRVING, Texas- Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Limited (Esso Angola), has started production from the Kizomba Satellites Phase 1 project offshore Angola. The...

KUALA LUMPUR: Chevron Corp. (CVX) and its partners expect in the very near future to load their first liquefied natural gas cargo from Angola using gas that previously would have...

CGGVeritas (NYSE: CGV) announced today that, after negotiations with Total Exploration & Production Angola and Sonangol, it has been awarded a five-year contract for the 4D seismic processing and imaging...

Damen Shipyards Galati is building the Ngola Kiluange, a Fishery Inspection Surveillance Vessel (FISV) 6210, for the Angolan Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries. With another two ships under...

Launched by Total in December 2007, Pazflor is one of the largest offshore oil production projects in the world, and a major development for Angola.  This field will increase the...