On 7 April 2026 in Kinshasa, ENGIP-RDC SA and SEP Congo signed a strategic partnership sealed by four contracts covering the operation of the downstream petroleum assets. For the National Petroleum Infrastructure Management Company, incorporated less than three months earlier, it is the first structuring agreement since the State's reclamation of the network.
The agreement falls within the company's founding mission: to secure supply to the domestic market by relying on a well-controlled logistics chain, from reception at the Matadi and Ango-Ango terminals through to the Kinshasa depots, on the Stanley Pool.
A first operational milestone
The signing comes a few weeks after the installation of the Board of Directors and the General Management on 20 March 2026. It marks the shift from a phase of institutional incorporation to a resolutely operational phase, centred on continuity of service and the reliability of the reclaimed network.
The partnership draws on SEP Congo's operational experience to reinforce the downstream logistics chain. It is sealed by four complementary contracts:
- Use of the pipelines and their dependencies.
- Leasing of industrial equipment.
- Leasing of professional buildings.
- Leasing of residential buildings.
In the continuity of energy sovereignty
The signing ceremony was held in the presence of Julie Shiku, Minister of Portfolio, and Acacia Bandubola Mbongo, Minister of State for Hydrocarbons. For SEP Congo, whose Director General Malick Ndiaye hailed «several months of negotiations», the agreement reflects the State's confidence in a public-private partnership model serving energy sovereignty.
These first steps trace the trajectory of a young company that is nonetheless the custodian of a more-than-century-old heritage: turning an inherited infrastructure into a modern instrument of Congolese energy sovereignty.
