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Oct 29, 2026
The Angola Opportunity: Oil & Gas, Departing President, and Investment Challenges
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1:38Huw CharlesGUEST
And I was really interested to kind of understand a bit more about what's driven that.
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1:45Ben HubertGUEST
And I think when we look at Angola specific factors, it's not the same country it was 10 years ago.
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1:50Ben HubertGUEST
I think since the current president came in, Jean Lorenzo, he's made a number of different changes, particularly in the oil and gas sector, like you mentioned.
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2:00Ben HubertGUEST
He's brought in the NPG as the regulator and as a national concessionaire, he's sort of with Deep Howard, Son and Goal and the various patronage networks around that and a variety of other different reforms that he's made.
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2:14Ben HubertGUEST
I think also specifically from the oil and gas perspective, there's a lot of talk about Angola reaching peak oil.
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4:55Huw CharlesGUEST
But I think that's another one too, right? You've got high natural gas prices around the world increasing the cost of production suddenly, Angola, with kind of excess gas supply becomes a potentially cheap destination for for fertilizer production i mean i know that's a new and developing project let's see how how it works out but that's something that you know you maybe wouldn't have you wouldn't have thought of angola as a potential destination for investment like that several years ago but suddenly you know suddenly it looks viable on the on the world stage