The public tender to identify a technological partner for the concession, management and exploration of PAENAL, a subsidiary of Sonangol, dedicated to the manufacture and integration of facilities for the oil and gas industry, began yesterday, Tuesday, and runs until the 30th of March 2024
PAENAL, located in the municipality of Porto Amboim, province of Cuanza-Sul, is a manufacturing and integration shipyard that began operations in 2007 and has already built complex facilities for the country’s oil and gas industry.
Sonangol’s objective, in addition to finding a new manager for PAENAL, is to transform the company into a shipyard for the maintenance and repair of small, medium and large vessels, through the granting of the right to explore and manage the aforementioned facilities. . According to the director of Financial Participation Management at Sonangol, Bruno Henriques, who presented the terms of the competition, the intention is to expand and give technological robustness to PAENAL’s activity, with a greater incidence and focus on the repair, maintenance and manufacture of vessels .
The official revealed that the winner will be known next May and that, in the concession program and tender specifications, potential candidates should direct their intentions towards carrying out the restructuring and dynamization of the business model from PAENAL.
To this end, interested parties will be able to submit their proposals until March 30, 2024, by submitting them to the e-mail of the evaluation committee, designated on the PAENAL portal and on the Sonangol portal. In this regard, Bruno Henriques said that the competition is international and is open to national and foreign entities, whether natural or collective, that meet the requirements defined for this competition.
Regarding the award criteria, the winning proposal will be awarded according to the criterion of the most technically viable proposal in response to the intended objectives, that is, the dynamization and restructuring of the asset, and economically most advantageous, combined with the medium and long-term management strategy term.
For this reason, Bruno Henriques clarified that the winner will have to be able to finance the restructuring of the asset, through the allocation of own capital or using national and international banks, have proven experience in the construction, conversion, rehabilitation, maintenance and repair business. of ships. Regarding the staff, qualified and specialized in different areas, Bruno Henriques guaranteed the maintenance of his jobs, given the vast experience acquired over the years.
The director of Financial Participation Management at Sonangol highlighted that the PAENAL shipyard, located in Porto Amboim, in an area of 270 thousand square meters, is integrated into a certified port with all the technical and operational conditions to meet regulatory requirements.
According to him, PAENAL, since its creation, has become a modern shipyard, with the capacity for complex constructions for the oil and gas sector, having developed reference projects such as the manufacturing and connection of the upper parts of the FPSO CLOV (2013 ), connections of the FPSO N’goma modules (2014), as well as the construction of two wellhead platforms for the Mafumeira Sul project.
