Africa

I recently spent two weeks in Angola while we were starting up a new project. It was fun to see that part of the world and be part of that project. Here are some pictures.

This is the center of Luanda, the capital of Angola. There are 4 million people in the city.

Here is a picture taken out the window of our car. Notice the woman behind the truck with the load on here head and the baby strapped to her back. We saw that a lot. Often the load was much bigger. The baby is just strapped on with a piece of cloth, kind of like a towel around your waste.

I spent a night on one of our floating production facilities (FPSO-Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading). Crude oil travels through miles of underwater pipelines and then up a mile-long riser to reach this vessel. It is processed and stored on board and offloaded to a tanker (if you watch the video below you will see a tanker slowly approaching, preparing to hook up and offload 1 million barrels of crude). They offload every ten days. Do the math on that with oil at $140 a barrel.

Here is the same view in the morning.

Here is some video of us taking off from the FPSO in the helicopter.