Cuba seeking more construction projects in Angola

Cuba seeking more construction projects in Angola



Cuba is offering Angola design and management of larger infrastructure

projects, official news agency Angop reported.



Cuban workers, technicians and engineers are working on a road repair

program and reconstruction of highway bridges. Cuban brigades are

rehabilitating roads in Bengo and Kwanza Norte provinces and repairing

11 bridges in the South of the country; the road repair program is 47

percent complete, with total completion expected for the end of the

year, and 10 of the 11 bridges have been fixed, according to Pires.



During an eight-day visit to Luanda, Cuban Vice President Ricardo

Cabrisas, who is in charge of economic relations with Cuba's most

strategic partners, met with various cabinet ministers and President

Eduardo dos Santos. Among others, Cabrisas held talks with Construction

Minister Waldemar Pires Alexandre about new projects, including more

road repairs.



"Concerning the construction sector, Cuba is ready to continue to

participate with its human capital in the drafting and implementation of

large projects in the area," Cabrisas told reporters after meeting with

the construction minister, according to Angop.



Construction aside, Cuba has cooperated with Angola on oil. CubaPetróleo

is a junior partner of Argentina's PlusPetrol in drilling in the

southern part of Angola's Cabinda exclave. Angolan state company

Sonangol helped Cupet acquire a 5-percent stake in an onshore block in

2009; the Castanha-1 well there has been producing oil since 2010, and

Pluspetrol said last year the Cabinda South block had a "highly prolific

inventory of prospects that will be drilled." Sonangol also contracted

two offshore blocks in a joint venture with Cupet in Cuban waters of the

Gulf of Mexico.



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