Angola is driving to become Africa's leading oil producer and that's expected to gain momentum after its president since 1979, the autocratic onetime jungle fighter Jose Eduardo dos Santos, won another five years in office. More than one-third of Angola's 21 million people live below the poverty line and the disparity between rich and poor is widening, despite the country's oil wealth and the prospect of that swelling on the back of recent deep-water discoveries offshore that are expected to elevate Angola to Africa's top oil producer. Right now, with a production level of 1.8 million barrels per day, it trails Nigeria, the continent's top producer with an output of 2.5 million bpd,with the new offshore discoveries in the Kwanza Basin, containing at least 1.5 billion barrels, and Nigeria's ( my Country) oil industry in turmoil, Luanda expects to double output to 3.5 million bpd, on a par with Canada, by 2020. major international oil companies seek to s...