The Sanha Lean Gasoline Connection undertaking – located in Angola’s Benguela province – has achieved first fuel manufacturing. Spearheaded by the Cabinda Gulf Oil Firm – vitality main Chevron’s Angolan subsidiary – the undertaking will provide pure fuel from Block 0 to Soyo energy vegetation and the Angola Liquefied Pure Gasoline (LNG) facility. For Angola, the undertaking represents a key step in the direction of diversifying the financial system, boosting vitality safety and fostering financial alternatives.
The African Vitality Chamber (AEC) applauded the milestone made by Chevron and its companions on Block 0. The Sanha Lean Gasoline Connection undertaking represents simply one of many many gas-focused developments which can be poised to remodel Angola from an oil-dependent market to a diversified financial system. Via initiatives corresponding to Sanha, Angola is on monitor to alleviate vitality poverty whereas creating jobs and enterprise alternatives throughout all the fuel worth chain.
The undertaking – which achieved FID in 2021 – comprised the design and improvement of a brand new platform, built-in with present Sanha amenities and the Congo River Crossing Pipeline. The primary stage of the Sanha Lean Gasoline Connection undertaking will ship 80 million commonplace cubic toes per day (mmscf/d) of fuel to the Angola LNG plant, whereas the second stage will add an extra 220 mmscf/d by way of the commissioning of the Booster Compression module. Chevron at the moment provides the LNG facility with 300 mmscf/d by way of the Congo River Crossing Pipeline. With the beginning of operations on the Sanha Lean Gasoline Connection undertaking, the corporate will improve feedstock by an extra 300 mmscf/d, bringing the overall quantity to 600 mmscf/d.
The Sanha Lean Gasoline Connection undertaking is only one of a number of fuel initiatives underway in Angola. In November 2024, Angola’s New Gasoline Consortium – comprising vitality corporations Azule Vitality (operator), Cabinda Gulf Oil Firm, Sonangol E&P and TotalEnergies – signed all of the requisite business agreements to expedite fuel manufacturing on the nation’s first non-associated fuel undertaking. The $2.4 billion undertaking – comprising the Quiluma and Maboqueiro fuel fields – is at the moment 50% full, with first manufacturing on monitor for late-2025 or early-2026. The offers will see the undertaking begin 6 months forward of schedule.
Whereas nearly all of the Angola LNG’s feedstock is provided by way of related fuel, Angola strives to spice up the event of non-associated initiatives. Along with the New Gasoline Consortium’s undertaking, the nation is asking for recent funding in exploration with the purpose of bringing new capability on-line. The nation’s six-year licensing spherical – launched in 2019 – is a mechanism enabling corporations to grab upstream block alternatives. Angola is getting ready to launch its subsequent Bid Spherical in Q1, 2025, as a part of the multi-year technique, with blocks out there within the offshore Kwanza and Benguela Basins.
In the meantime, to facilitate higher funding throughout the Angolan pure fuel worth chain, the federal government is getting ready to launch its Gasoline Grasp Plan (GMP). Launched for public session in October 2024, the GMP varieties a part of the nation’s broader Nationwide Improvement Plan (2023-2027). The plan provides a complete technique for growing, using and monetizing Angola’s fuel assets over a interval of 30 years, aligning with nationwide objectives to extend the share of fuel within the vitality combine to 25% by 2025. Serving as a blueprint of methods to put money into Angola’s fuel trade, the GMP is predicted to create a extra aggressive and engaging funding local weather in Angola.
“Pure fuel is the gas of the longer term in Africa, and Chevron is making important strides in the direction of positioning Angola as a serious fuel producer. The milestone achieved by the corporate and its companions on Block 0 needs to be recommended, serving as a important step in the direction of financial diversification and enhanced vitality safety in Angola. With initiatives corresponding to this, Angola is affirming its place as a regional hub – each for crude oil and for LNG, LPG and related fuel merchandise,” states NJ Ayuk, Government Chairman of the AEC.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Vitality Chamber.
