Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, confirmed, this Monday, the progress of works on the Barra do Dande Ocean Terminal (TOBD), in the province of Bengo, which have a general physical progress of around 63 percent .
The works on the Barra do Dande Ocean Terminal, valued at US$642 million, are scheduled to be completed by the end of July 2024.
The TOBD is a structuring work for the national oil sector with strategic relevance for the country, given its role in strengthening national energy security.
This is a project that began in 2012, and in 2016, with progress in the execution order of 10 percent, it was suspended due to the current situation at the time.
With a storage capacity of 580 thousand cubic meters of refined products, the TOBD will meet the country’s needs and, associated with the existing capacity, will also make the process of receiving and distributing refined products “safer, more efficient and less expensive”.
The Angolan oil company Sonangol formalized the award of the construction of the TOBD to Odebrecht Engenharia e Construção Internacional (OECI) and signed, in Luanda, the 3 contracts relating to this work, as a result of the international public tender.
In this competition, aimed at companies interested in completing the project, eight competitors presented themselves, with OECI (construction), DAR Angola (supervision of the project) and SOAPRO (carrying out the environmental impact study) being the winners.
In addition to the construction of the terminal, the project includes the completion of the refined products storage park and the construction of the ship dock.
Sonangol maintains that the Barra do Dande Project is of strategic and national interest. It integrates the objectives defined in the Executive’s National Development Plan 2018-2022, as the main platform for the storage and reception of petroleum products.
These are petroleum products for the country’s strategic, security and operational reserves, “in addition to promoting Dande as an important fuel storage and marketing hub in the region”.
To ensure compliance with the deadlines defined in the contract, 36 months, Sonangol asked OECI, in coordination with the project management, to install itself at the location of the ocean terminal, with the aim of starting the activities defined in the work plan .
The project was relaunched on December 1, 2021 and currently has 2847 workers from all provinces of the country.
TOBD has a national workforce of 96 percent, 11 of which are women, 135 certified welders, 115 graduates of which 63 percent are engineers.
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