{"id":242068,"date":"2026-08-24T20:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/southern-africa-angola-discovers-new-oil-reserve\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:20:32","slug":"southern-africa-angola-discovers-new-oil-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/southern-africa-angola-discovers-new-oil-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Angola Discovers New Oil Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Luanda \u2014 A new oil and gas condensate reserve has been discovered in exploration well 105-4X, located in Block 0, in the Lower Congo Basin off the coast of Cabinda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">In a statement, the National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG) and the Block 0 Contractor Group emphasize that preliminary results confirm the existence of an oil and gas condensate column more than 600 meters (2,000 feet) high in the main reservoir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">According to the document, the discovery has more than 90 meters (300&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608240777.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 A new oil and gas condensate reserve has been discovered in exploration well 105-4X, located in Block 0, in the Lower Congo Basin off the coast of Cabinda. In a statement, the National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG) and the Block 0 Contractor Group emphasize that preliminary results confirm the existence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,15742,257,4221,8501,254,7153],"class_list":["post-242068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-discovers","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-reserve","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}