According to the person responsible – cited in a statement from the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, to which VerAngola had access – "with an average production of 2020 tons, 70 percent of which goes to bottled gas and 30 percent to bulk gas, Sonagás guarantees to increase production from 5000 to 90,000 per day".
Félix Jorge acknowledged the possibility that some of the 14 facilities in the country could be affected by the rains, "but the conditions are being created to deal with this situation".
The official was speaking during the training seminar for journalists, other media professionals and members of his association, under the motto "Oil Production and Environmental Sustainability", promoted by the Association of Economic Journalists of Angola (AJECO).
On the occasion, the Director of the Institutional Information and Communication Technologies Office (GTICI), of the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, Luciano Canhanga, spoke, having left an appeal to journalists "who have the mining and oil sector as an institution with open doors, and its communications advisors as good partners in the search for contradictions before disclosing any content", reads the statement.
Luciano Canhaga, also mentioned in the statement, said that "without enlightened journalists, we will not have the desired successes in the mission of clarifying public opinion".
João Joaquim, president of the board of directors of AJECO, stated that regarding "the problem of fuel distribution and trading shipping of Sonangol" they had been clarified: "In relation to the problem of fuel distribution and trading shipping of Sonangol, I believe that we have clarified the behavior of these sectors at the level of our economy", he said.
