Browsing: ANPG

• During the last three decades, Angola has established itself as a top-tier destination for big oil and gas companies.
• Natural gas is an essential intermediary in the energy transition, generating fewer emissions than petroleum and coal products.
• Angola’s regulator, the ANPG, aims to attract investment from sources other than the country’s traditional oil and gas producers.

While foreign oil firms steadily abandon African hydrocarbon resources and transfer capital spending to alternate energy sources, Africa is experiencing output reductions across significant assets. The fall in oil and gas output is primarily because Integrated Oil Companies (IOCs) are affected by lobbies urging them to withdraw from fossil fuels and invest in renewables.

Understanding the Decline in fossil fuel funding

Since loans are becoming more costly, it is becoming more difficult to borrow funds for investment in exploration, development, and production (E&P). Some financial firms are beginning to limit capital accessible for these …