On November 20, 2024, Angola enacted Presidential Decree 8/24 on Oil & Gas Incremental Production (“Incremental Production Decree”). This legal statute creates a new special legal and tax framework aimed to promote additional...more
On July 5, 2024, the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (Ministério dos Recursos Minerais e Energia - "MIREME") published Ministerial Diploma No. 55/2024 ("DM 55/2024") to establish within the scope of petroleum...more
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. ...more
Annus horribilis. This is a moniker that oil and gas insiders might well apply to 2020 given the disastrous effects on the industry from Covid-19 pandemic (“Pandemic”) and its accompanying recession which brought a...more