The delegation includes Kevin McLachlan, Vice President of Exploration; Emmanuelle Garinet, Director of Exploration for the Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa; Toni Henning, Commercial General Manager, Chevron Southern Africa; and Frank Cassulo, Southern Africa Managing Director. Bringing together global decision-makers responsible for exploration strategy alongside regional executives leading Chevron's Angolan portfolio, the delegation underscores the strategic importance of Angola within the company's international upstream business.

Chevron remains one of Angola's largest international oil and gas investors, with a portfolio spanning mature offshore assets, new production projects, frontier exploration and non-associated gas development. The company continues to balance production from established operations with investment in new resources, supporting Angola's objective of sustaining crude output while unlocking new gas opportunities.

Production growth remains a key pillar of Chevron's strategy. In late 2025, the company achieved first oil from the N'dola Sul development in Block 0, a project designed to maximize recovery from one of Angola's longest-producing offshore concessions. The development forms part of Chevron's broader brownfield investment strategy, demonstrating how tiebacks to existing infrastructure can deliver additional production while improving capital efficiency.

Alongside production optimization, Chevron is advancing a frontier exploration campaign. The company is progressing exploration activities in Blocks 49 and 50 in the Lower Congo Basin, where seismic acquisition was completed in 2025 before moving into data processing and interpretation. The program is expected to strengthen geological understanding of the offshore acreage and support future drilling decisions as Angola seeks to unlock new reserves through frontier exploration.

Beyond oil, Chevron continues to play a leading role in establishing Angola's gas industry through the New Gas Consortium. The consortium spearheaded development of the Quiluma and Maboqueiro fields, Angola's first non-associated gas project, which now supplies feedstock to the Angola LNG plant in Soyo. The project represents a major milestone in the country's gas commercialization strategy, supporting LNG exports while creating opportunities for future domestic industrial development.

Chevron is also expanding its lower-carbon portfolio in Angola. Earlier this year, the company renewed its memorandum of understanding with the Angolan government to advance collaboration on lower-carbon initiatives, building on previous work related to carbon management, renewable fuels and other technologies that support the country's broader decarbonization objectives.

The participation of Chevron's senior leadership team at AOG 2026 reflects the breadth of the company's Angolan portfolio and its continued confidence in the country's upstream potential. With executives responsible for global exploration strategy, regional commercial operations and Southern African business leadership, the delegation will contribute high-level perspectives on frontier exploration, production optimization, gas monetization and the next generation of investment opportunities.

As Angola continues to advance exploration, develop new gas resources and maximize production from existing assets, Chevron's leadership at AOG 2026 reinforces the company's position as a long-term partner in the country's oil and gas industry.