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Onderwerp: [INT-BOUNDARIES] Angola/Congo Joint Development

Dear Int-Boundaries Colleagues

Please find attached a newspaper clip, dated 30 July 2012, referring to an agreement between Angola and Congo for the joint development of the "Lianzi" reservoir on the basis of an international unitisation -- **BK: this Joint Development was concluded under Angola/Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) Offshore Unitization Agreement of 10 September 2001 listed below.**

Best regards

Nuno

Angola’s Preliminary Submission of 12 May 2009, Section 1: Estimated Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf [actual Angola’s Submission - by the end 2013], possibly meaning by its reference to "Republic of Congo" (Brazzaville) also its another direct neighbour - Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa) http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/submissions_files/preliminary/ago2009preliminaryinformation.pdf ; Republic of Congo’s (Brazzaville) Preliminary Submission of 11 May 2009, paras 5-8("without prejudice"clause) and para.11 at http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/submissions_files/preliminary/cog2009informationpreliminaire.pdf ; DRCongo’s (Kinshasa) Preliminary Submission of 11 May 2009, Sections 1.a and 4: Dispute over Maritime Delimitation with Angola at http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/submissions_files/preliminary/cod2009informationpreliminaire1.pdf  and DRC Maritime Areas Delimitation Law No.09/002 of 7 March 2009 at http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/submissions_files/preliminary/cod2009loi.pdf  [reprinted in: UN Law of the Sea Bulletin 39-44, including Map (2009 No.70)]; Angola/Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) Offshore Unitization Agreement of 10 September 2001 and Joint Development of Lianzi Field [located 65 miles offshore] under the 2001 Agreement of 29 July 2012 at http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/119695/Chevron_Tags_2B_for_Development_of_Offshore_Lianzi_Project , http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/30/idUS121395+30-Jul-2012+BW20120730 , http://ewallstreeter.com/chevron-tags-b-for-development-of-offshore-lianzi-project-5397/  & http://www.offshore-technology.com/news/newschevron-lianzi-project-offshore-angola-republic-congo  and Angola/DRCongo (Kinshasa) Joint Hydrocarbons Development Agreement of 30 July 2007 [in force: 23 July 2008], in: ASIL/IMB Vol.VI (2011), Reports No. 4-16 (Smith and Dolan), at 4281 and No.4-15 (Smith and Dolan), at 4270 at http://www.brill.nl/international-maritime-boundaries-2 ; Angola Stealing DRCongo’s Oil of 25 March 2009 at http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/550806/-/13q3ijqz/-/index.html  and Note Verbale of Angola of 31 July 2009 on DRCongo’s Preliminary Submission at http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/submissions_files/preliminary/ago_re_cod_2009e.pdf ; Angola/DRCongo Negotiations of 25 March 2010 at http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7260:angola-eyes-extension-to-maritime-border-with-congo&catid=35:Aerospace&Itemid=107 ; Reply of DRCongo of 14 June 2010 to both Angola’s Preliminary Submission of 12 May 2009 and Angola’s Note Verbale of 31 July 2009 at http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/submissions_files/preliminary/cod_ago_re_cod_2010e.pdf , http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/commission_preliminary.htm  & http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/clcs_home.htm ; Illegal Mining in DRCongo of 15 December 2010 at http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Butty-Zambia-Great-Lakes-Region-Summit-Shikapwasha-15december10-111903174.html ; DRCongo to Lodge Case Before UN Over Oil Dispute with Angola of 19 January 2011 at http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90855/7266104.html  & http://www.africanmanager.com/site_eng/detail_article.php?art_id=15774 ; Angola’s Oil of 24 January 2011 at http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?hpf=1&a_id=103406  and Map at http://www.rigzone.com/news/image_detail.asp?img_id=2615&a_id=69902 ; ICSID First Quantum v. DRCongo Mining of 28 April 2011 at http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/29428/tribunal-place-drc-mining-claim-/  and 6 January 2012 at http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/30067/first-quantum-settles-congo-claims/ ; Guinea v. DRCongo Ahmadou Diallo Judgment of 19 June 2012 at www.icj-cij.org, http://www.asil.org/ilib120629.cfm , http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?id=517/517606&key=4&query=category:%22International%20Court%20of%20Justice%22&lang=&sf , http://webtv.un.org/watch/icj-judgment-in-guinea-v-drc-case/1697369146001  & http://ilawyerblog.com/guinea-v-congo-the-icj-issues-first-decision-assessing-compensation-in-6-decades/ .

Kind regards,

Barbara, Former NILOS Deputy Director 1985-2009 http://nijhoffonline.nl/credited_person?id=KwiatkowskaBarbara & http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/9789004184848 &  http://www.haguejusticeportal.net/index.php?id=4628 &  http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/gwilr39&div=26&id=&page & http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ibru/publications/full/bsb8-1_kwiatkowska.pdf  &  http://www.uu.nl/nilos/onlinepapers & http://www.uu.nl/nilos/books & http://catalogue.ppl.nl/DB=1/SET=5/TTL=1/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=1016&SRT=YOP&TRM=Kwiatkowska http://www.uu.nl/university/research/NL/HetUtrechtseonderzoek/hoogleraren/faculteitrebo/Documents/B.Kwiatkowska.pdf & http://www.brill.nl/decisions-world-court-relevant-un-convention-law-sea & http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/law/2012-0321-200600/UUindex.html & http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00908320390229003 & http://nijhoffonline.nl/book?id=nij9789004184299_nij9789004184299_i-345