The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sonangol, Gaspar Martins, and the Eni Executive Vice President for Sub-Saharan Africa, Guido Brusco, agreed today, June 4, 2019, at the opening of the Angola Oil and Gas Conference, of Talatona Conventions, in Luanda, the award of the contract for the realization of the new platforming unit of the Luanda Refinery to the company KT – Kinetics Technology.

The inclusion of this new unit at the Luanda Refinery will quadruple the high octane gasoline production capacity of that unit and, consequently, reduce the need for imports.

Winner of the international competition promoted by Eni, KT is a globally recognized EPC company with a strong technological profile. It is estimated that the project of the platforming unit will be completed in two and a half years and the execution of this contract will employ around 600 local workers and during the construction phase more than 1000 jobs in civil, mechanical, electrical and instrumental, will be created.