Angola’s Sonangol Announces More Than 50 Companies Pre-qualified for License-round Bidding
Sonangol, the Angolan state-owned oil company, has announced the list of companies who have successfully pre-qualified to participate in Angola’s current offshore licensing round. This includes 29 companies as potential operators and 22 as non-operators.
These companies will be invited to bid for blocks including 1, 5 and 6, which are located in shallow water on the shelf of the lower Congo and Kwanza basins; blocks 15, 17 and 18 (excluding development areas) in deep water of the lower Congo basin, and block 26, a deep water block in the Benguela sub-basin.
The announcement follows high levels of interest in oil exploration in Angola expressed at the company’s successful roadshows held by IHS Energy in Houston and London. All pre-qualified companies are now invited to submit firm proposals for the concession blocks to Sonangol by 31st March 2006.
Carlos Saturnino, Sonangol’s Negotiations Director, commented on the announcement; “We are very pleased with the volume and quality of responses we have received from the interested Operators, and I would like to congratulate the successful companies invited to move on to the bidding round.”
The successful operators include;
- Addax Petroleum N.V.
- Amerada Hess Corp.
- BP Exploration (Angola) Ltd.
- Centurion Energy International Inc.
- CEPSA- Compañia Espanola de Petroleos S.A.
- Chevron
- Devon Angola Corp.
- ENI Angola Exploration B.V.
- Equator Exploration Ltd.
- ESSO Exploration and Production Angola
- Inpex Corp.
- Kerr-McGee Corp.
- Lundin Petroleum AB
- Maersk Olie Og Gas A.S.
- Marathon International Petroleum Ltd.
- Norsk Hydro
- ONGC Videsh Ltd.
- OXY of Angola, LLC
- Partex Oil and Gas
- Petrobras
- Petronas Carigali Overseas SDN BHD
- Premier Oil PLC
- Repsol Exploration S.A.
- ROC Oil Company Ltd.
- Santos International Operations Pty. Ltd.
- Statoil, Total E&P Angola
- Tullow Oil PLC
- VAALCO Energy Inc.
Successful non-operating companies include;
- Angola Consulting Resources
- Lda, AJOCO’ 91 Exploration Co. Ltd.
- Anadarko Petroleum Corp.
- Angola Japan Oil Co. Ltd. (AJOCO)
- Exile Resources Inc.
- Falcon Oil
- Force Petroleum Group Ltd.
- Grupo Gema S.A.
- Initial Oil and Gas S.A.
- InterOil E&P ASA
- Mitsubishi Corp.
- NIS
- Noble Energy Inc.
- O.C.P. Lda
- Orca Exploration Company Ltd.
- PetroSA
- ProdOil
- SARL
- Soco PLC
- Sonangol Sinopec International Ltd.
- Svenska Petroleum Exploration
- Taiyo Oil Company Ltd.
- Wodege - Sociedade Angolana de Petróleos e Minas Lda.
