Benefits to Local Communities: Angola

  • Number of Angolans working for the SBM Offshore/OPS (Serviços de Produção de Petróleos, ltd.) Group, and subcontractors:
    • Shore base:
      • Own national employees: 3
      • Long term subcontractors national employees: 53
    • Offshore Floating Units:
      • Long term subcontractors national employees: 115
  • Additional national employees on a 3 to 5 year training program abroad: 69
    • 43 students in South Africa, Port Elisabeth
    • 18 students in South Africa, Cape Town
    • 8 Students in Chinnay, India, on going Training in Deck Engineering
  • In 2003 SBM Offshore entered into a partnership to take the responsibility for the operation, management, marketing and development of all ongoing and future activities of ESSA (Empresa de Serviços e Sondagens de Angola Limitada), a training centre in Luanda developed and owned by Sonangol. The centre offers mainly language and safety training courses to the local industry and major investments were made in 2004 by all parties involved, to modernize and expand the existing infrastructure. Presently, the centre can take up to 250 students. The goal of ESSA is to become an Angolan Training Centre of Excellence by introducing into Angola internationally recognized, accredited, certified and specialized training programs for the benefit of the Angolan industry in general but with a particular priority for the oil and gas industry. The participation of SBM Offshore in the ESSA training centre allows the company to increase the involvement of national resources in its operations.
  • The SBM Offshore/OPS Group regularly uses the local service of Technic Service.
  • SBM Offshore Group has built 3 deepwater buoys with SONAMET during the last four years: "Girassol", "Kizomba A" and "Kizomba B". By the end of 2005 SBM will start the construction of a fourth one "The Greater Plutonio Calm Buoy".
  • SBM Offshore provides support to two projects: "Casa dos Rapazes do Palanca", a school and workshop for boys in Luanda and "Lar Nossa Senhora das Dores", a girls' orphanage in Lubango.
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SBM Offshore/OPS' students of the South African College visiting the Sanha LPG FPSO during a stopover in Cape Town en route for Angola

Helicopter crash survival training at the ESSA centre in Luanda

Girls from "Lar Nossa Senhora das Dores" orphanage in Lubango