Africa-Press – Angola. Angola should ensure the continuity of cooperation with Norwegian multinationals, with a view to the country’s economic growth and development.
This vision was advanced, Wednesday (17), in Oslo, by President João Lourenço, during a visit to the Norwegian company Aker Solutions.
It is a factory dedicated to the manufacture of equipment for the mineral resources, oil and gas industry.
At Aker Solutions, João Lourenço said that Angola intends to deepen the transfer of knowledge and technologies to companies in the country that operate in the oil and mining sector.
“We are a developing country. We have to be open to these partnerships so that we can also be, in the future, a developed country”, he declared.
President João Lourenço defended, however, the need for a “profitable cooperation” that takes into account the training of young Angolans, in different fields and levels.
Aker Solutions, an equipment assembly company, with an equipment assembly unit in the municipality of Viana, in Luanda, entered the Angolan market through a consortium with the AFRICA50 Organisation.
“To say that we are satisfied with the performance of Aker Solutions Angola and we intend to continue the cooperation that we have had so far, deepening it as much as possible so that the transfer of technology knowledge to our companies in the oil and mining sector in a be done safely in the coming future. We are a developing country and we have to be open to these partnerships so that we can therefore also become a developed country in the future. Our youth needs training in the most different areas and training levels”, said João Lourenço.
At the company’s facilities, the Head of State received explanations related to the firm’s operation and watched a video about the equipment produced by Aker. João Lourenço took a guided tour of some of the company’s service areas.
Still in Oslo, as part of a two-day visit to Norway, President João Lourenço was at the oil company Equinor (formerly Statoil), where, for more than an hour, he visited the service areas and had a meeting with the management of multinational.
Equinor has the largest volume of business with Angola, where it has operated since 1991 and is currently responsible for 10 percent of oil production in the country. Equinor currently has equity interests in several oil blocks in Angola.
Earlier, in an audience, the Head of State received, just yesterday, one of those responsible for the Scatec Solar Company, Terra Spitkon, a company linked to the installation of photovoltaic equipment, wind and solar energy. In this respect, the Minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, said that this investor should guarantee the East region more than 300 megawatts of photovoltaic energy.
João Baptista Borges said that Scatec Solar had already started contacts with Angola, but the emergence of Covid-19 stopped the initiatives, which are now believed to have conditions for the recovery.
Visit to Parliament strengthens cooperation
President João Lourenço paid, yesterday, in Oslo, a courtesy visit to the Norwegian Parliament, where he was received by the president of that body, Masud Gharhakhani.
In the message signed in the book of honor, João Lourenço expressed “satisfaction for the honor of having visited the Parliament of the Kingdom of Norway, where it was possible for us to discuss with the president of this institution issues related to the development of relations at the most different levels between the Republic of Angola and the Kingdom of Norway”.
According to President João Lourenço, this moment has a particular meaning, as it is the first time that an Angolan Head of State visits the Norwegian House of Laws, which indicates the will of both countries towards a greater strengthening of bilateral relations with a view to reaping reciprocal benefits that contribute to the development and progress of both nations. “Made in Angola”
Products shown to Norwegians
Yesterday, on the sidelines of the “Angola Business Forum”, in Oslo, Norway, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized an exhibition of products made in Angola by Angolan producers, such as essential oils, chocolates, coffee, marble, handmade soaps, honey and “kaporroto”, a distilled drink made from sugar cane.
The aim of the event was to show the country’s economic potential, as well as the opportunities for diversifying new sources of attraction for investors in the Angolan economy.
During the exhibition, Norwegian businessmen expressed interest in genuinely Angolan products, with a view to future exchanges and cooperation with national companies.
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