Angolas minister of petroleum
José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos
Offshore use goes back to his first time as minister of petroleum
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José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos has served as Angola’s Minister of Petroleum since 2008. An engineer by training, Botelho de Vasconcelos worked for years with Angola’s state oil company, Sonangol. Botelho de Vasconcelos first served as petroleum minister from 1999 to 2002 before becoming Minister for Energy and Water. He was re-appointed Minister of Petroleum in 2008 and was president of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 2009.In the data
On 6 March 2002, when Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos was minister of petroleum for the first time, he was named one of two individuals who had power of attorney for Medea Investments Limited, a company that put its own value at $1 million. The company was incorporated on September 13, 2001 in Niue and moved to Samoa in 2006. It was inactivated on Feb. 16, 2009. In both Niue and Samoa, the company was held by “bearer” shares, which belong to the individual who physically holds them, making it easier to obscure ownership. Medea Investments Limited (Samoa) was one of two companies to hold shares in the New York company Blue Nile Consulting LLC in October 2007.Response
Botelho de Vasconcelos did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
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