Luanda, Oct. 30, 2025 (Lusa) - Angola spent $709.3 million (€610.4 million) to import 1.2 million metric tonnes of liquid fuels in the third quarter of this year, 36% more than in the previous quarter, the government announced on Thursday.
According to data released by the Oil Derivatives Regulatory Institute (IRDP) on the activities carried out between July and September this year, 70% of the quantities of liquid fuels purchased were imported, with the remainder coming from the Luanda Refinery (29%) and Cabgoc - Topping de Cabinda (1%).
In the period in question, diesel was the most imported product with 61%, followed by petrol with 25.94%.
Speaking to the press, the deputy director-general of the IRDP pointed out that there were more imports of diesel because there is more need for this oil derivative, and that for the last quarter of the year he expects imports of diesel and petrol to be close to those recorded in the third quarter.
António Feijó stressed that the Cabinda Refinery, inaugurated last September, will lead to a reduction in diesel imports, despite the fact that it is still in a pre-start-up process.
With the Cabinda Refinery fully operational, he continued, the country expects to reduce the volume of imports by around 12%.
"It's clear that by importing less, we're going to reduce imports by 10% to 12%, it is going to reduce the state's expenditure on buying diesel. Today we import around 70% of what we need, we only produce 30% domestically, we're going to reduce the volume imported by increasing the production we do here," he said.
According to IRDP data, the country still has an installed land-based storage capacity for liquid fuels in operational condition of 675,968 cubic metres.
As for the number of petrol stations, at the end of the quarter in question, 1,204 were registered, of which 920 were operational, mostly owned by Sonangol Distribuição e Comercialização, a state-owned company, with 34.2% of the total.
As for market share, in terms of liquid fuel sales volume in the period under review, Sonangol Distribuição e Comercialização led with 62.3%, followed by Pumangol with 20%, Sonangalp with 8.6%, Total Energies Marketing Angola with 7.2% and Etu Energias with 2%.
Concerning gaseous fuels, there were no imports of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) into the domestic market in the third quarter, with the 158,555 metric tonnes introduced into the domestic market coming from the Angola LNG Factory (56%), Sanha (38%), the Luanda Refinery (5%) and Cabinda Topping (1%).
"Compared to the previous quarter, there was an increase of approximately 28% in the purchase of cooking gas (LPG) for the domestic market," the report notes, emphasising that in this segment, Sonangol Gás e Energias Renováveis is the market sales leader, with a 77.7% share.
In another segment, the leading companies sold around 8,000 metric tonnes of lubricants on the domestic market, a 17% decline from the previous quarter.
Of the total volume mentioned, only 490 metric tonnes originated from domestic production, representing 6%, while the remaining 7,465 metric tonnes, equivalent to 94%, were imported.
Chinangol led sales in the lubricants market in the period under review, with a share of around 9.8% of the total, followed by Jambo with 8.6%, Lubritec with 8.2%, Geosam with 7.3% and Sonangol Distribuição e Comercialização with 6.2%, rounding off the top 5% of the market.
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