Energy in Angola

This shift in Angola's energy strategy indicates a move towards sustainable resources, reducing the country's previous dependence on conventional fuels like oil and gas.

Angola ranks second in crude oil production in sub-Saharan Africa, after Nigeria.

This is even though new skyscrapers, appeared in Luanda; offices, shopping centres and apartment buildings proliferated in a "mini-golden age" as leading economist Alves da Rocha called it, from 2003-2008.

[7] Two thirds of the 16.5 million people in Angola live on less than $2 a day, according to the World Bank,[8] and the oil industry employs less than one percent of the workforce.

The company pumps almost three-quarters of Angola's oil, and also reduced crude production about 12%, after a pipeline leak.