Amandio Tulumba Nangaiafina, sales and business development manager of Bureau Veritas, talks to The Energy Year about the company’s growth expectations for the Angolan market, how its lab services can support the Angolan mining sector and the opportunity the renewable power sector represents for the company. Bureau Veritas provides testing, inspections and certification services.
What is the potential of Bureau Veritas’ laboratory services for serving Angola’s mining sector?
We provide quality and quantity (Q&Q) analysis for anything they produce. Commodity prices depend on their quality, so our services can certainly be of use to the mining sector in the same way we work with crude oil and petroleum products. We can accompany this Q&Q process from extraction in the mine to loading and even unloading the vessel.
We are exploring the possibility of investing in a mining-focused laboratory, and we would do that in cooperation with a mining company.
What opportunity do investments in the renewable power sector represent for Bureau Veritas?
Power sector projects are a very important target for us. Our involvement starts from design review and continues through the entire project value chain. For a solar plant, for example, we can confirm the designs and notify the client whether or not the provider is doing well. We can act as a third-party inspection provider by controlling the EPC company developing the project or act as a second party for technical assistance.
The most important value we can bring is our reputation and expertise in renewable energy projects. We have experience and experts in these types of projects across the world.
How strategic are digitalisation and new tools and technologies for your operations in Angola?
Angola is a very mature and advanced market, so a very high level of technology and competency regarding industrial inspection is needed to compete and perform.
For example, our inspection management software is very key for our operations. It’s a tool we are using for all of our clients for lifting inspection and certification. Then we also have smart glasses for remote inspection, as well as drones. We have many pieces of new digital NDT equipment. We invested a lot in inspection equipment.
It is important to understand that we have to combine all these new technologies and digital tools into our services. It’s all about service integration. We are not investing in just one solution.
If we consider drone activity, for instance, we have to identify the right type of drone and see what else needs to be done to perform the inspection. The drone will be useless if we don’t have site competency, that is, visual inspection know-how, knowledge about the equipment and so on. What is important is that we integrate the service along with the drone. This example represents the right approach to digitalisation and new technologies.
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