Their participation brings together companies active across Angola’s frontier onshore basins, shallow-water fields and major offshore developments, offering insight into the investments, technical strategies and operational approaches shaping the country’s next production cycle.

ReconAfrica entered Angola in 2025 through a memorandum of understanding with upstream regulator the National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency for joint exploration in the Etosha-Okavango Basin. The agreement strengthened the company’s position across the Damara Fold Belt, which extends from northeastern Namibia into Angola. The expansion follows continued exploration progress on the Namibian side of the petroleum play.

The company recently made a play-opening discovery at the Kavango West 1X well, identifying approximately 75 meters of hydrocarbon pay in the Huttenberg formation, along with additional hydrocarbon indications in the fractured Elandshoek formation. Production testing and preparations for a follow-up appraisal well could provide geological and operational insights applicable to the company’s future Angolan exploration program. ReconAfrica will be represented by President and CEO Brian Reinsborough at AOG 2026.

Afentra is expanding its presence in Angola through a portfolio combining producing shallow-water assets, undeveloped offshore discoveries and onshore exploration acreage. The company and its partners are preparing an infill drilling and heavy workover program across Blocks 3/05 and 3/05A, including potential wells at Impala-2 and Pacassa SW-1. At its operated Block 3/24, Afentra is targeting a final investment decision in late 2026 or early 2027 on up to three discoveries, with first oil targeted by the end of 2027. Afentra will be represented by COO Ian Cloke at AOG 2026.

Alfort Petroleum is preparing to move Block KON 8 in the onshore Kwanza Basin from subsurface evaluation toward drilling. After securing operatorship in 2015 and signing a production-sharing contract in 2022, the company analyzed existing data and focused its interpretation on priority exploration targets. Alfort is now preparing a detailed well proposal for regulatory approval, followed by a tender process for drilling services and a rig, with drilling previously targeted for the third quarter of 2026. The company is also assessing development and infrastructure options should the campaign deliver a commercial discovery. Alfort Petroleum’s Financial Director Joseph Freeman will speak at AOG 2026.

Azule Energy is advancing major oil and gas projects as it works toward a production target of 250,000 barrels per day. The Agogo Integrated West Hub began production through the Agogo FPSO in 2025, while full start-up at the Ndungu field was achieved in early 2026. The company also made the Algaita-01 discovery at Block 15/06, with estimated resources of up to 500 million barrels of oil.

In gas, Azule operates the New Gas Consortium, which is supplying gas from the Quiluma and Maboqueiro fields to processing infrastructure in Soyo and ultimately to Angola LNG. Bringing a technology and digitalization perspective to these developments, Azule Energy will be represented by Chief Information Officer John Foster at AOG 2026.