安哥拉即将启动八年来首次石油许可证发放

据普氏能源资讯1月11日报道称，欧佩克的产油成员国安哥拉矿产资源和石油部长Diamantino Pedro Azevedo在周五公开的一次采访中告诉普氏记者，安哥拉将完成其八年来首轮石油许可证授予环节的收尾工作，该国希望能够通过此举取代一些成熟油田日益减少的产量，同时也看到了投资者重燃对其石油行业的兴趣。

Azevedo说，安哥拉正在为2019年至2025年期间的陆上和海上石油和天然气区块许可制定战略。

在2014年石油价格暴跌之后，安哥拉的经济遭受了低油价的困扰，该国也一直在努力吸引国际投资者投资其深水石油资源，使其实现盈亏平衡。

去年，安哥拉推出了几项新举措，试图提高其石油产量和对国际投资的吸引力。

总统若昂·洛伦科于2018年夏天签署了一项法令，旨在建立一个销售和管理石油区块的机构，而不是国有石油公司Sonangol。国家石油和天然气管理局预计将于2019年成立，并将于2020年底全面投入运营。

早在2018年，安哥拉将储量不足3亿桶的石油勘探开发税率减少了一半。安哥拉将所谓的边际油田（含储量少于3亿桶的油田）的石油生产税降低从通常的20％降至10％。税收改革还将边际油田的石油所得税从50％减半至25％。

随着对该国石油部门兴趣的增加以及安哥拉最大的深海离岸开发项目Kaombo的投产，安哥拉油田勘探许可证的发放即将进行。Kaombo项目为安哥拉贡献了11.5万桶的日产量。由法国道达尔公司牵头的该项目的第二阶段将增加11.5万桶的日产量，预计将于今年投产。

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原文如下：

Angola Prepares For First Oil Licensing Round In Eight Years.

OPEC producer Angola is putting the finishing touches on its first oil licensing round in eight years, hoping to replace dwindling production at some maturing fields and seeing renewed investor appetite in its oil industry, Angola’s Minister of Mineral Resources and Petroleum Diamantino Pedro Azevedo told S&P Global Platts in an interview published on Friday.

Angola is preparing a strategy for onshore and offshore oil and gas blocks licensing for the period 2019 through 2025, Azevedo said.

After the oil price crash of 2014, Angola’s economy had suffered from the low oil prices and the country had also been struggling to attract international investments in its deepwater higher-breakeven oil resources.

Last year, Angola introduced several new measures to try to boost its oil production and its attractiveness for international investment. President Joao Lourenco signed in the summer of 2018 a decree to create an agency that would sell and manage oil blocks instead of state oil firm Sonangol. The National Agency of Petroleum and Gas is expected to launch in 2019 and be fully operational by the end of 2020.

Earlier in 2018, Angola halved the tax rates on the development of oil discoveries with fewer than 300 million barrels of reserves. Angola cut the petroleum production tax on so-called marginal fields—those with less than 300 million barrels of reserves—to 10 percent from the typical 20 percent tax. The tax reforms also halved the petroleum income tax on marginal fields to 25 percent from 50 percent.

Angola’s upcoming licensing round comes as interest in the country’s oil sector has increased and as a new major start-up—the biggest deep offshore development in Angola, Kaombo, came on stream, contributing 115,000 bpd to Angola’s oil production. The second phase of the project led by France’s Total will add another 115,000 bpd of production and is expected to start up this year.