Abstract Between 2001 and 2008, the production of the Angolan oil industry trebled from700,000 to more than 1.8 million barrels of oil per day. For Angola, it is acrucial challenge to spread the benefits of this windfall throughout theAngolan economy as a whole and to stimulate the creation of value on a localscale. In collaboration with all the contractors, Pazflor encouraged localmanufacture of project facilities and equipment whenever possible. Identifyingthe production capacity available at existing yards, scoping out local skillsand reviewing the workload of local companies were all preliminaries to thecontract awards. During the Project execution phase, Angolan yards made a significantcontribution to the construction of project equipments. Around 3.8 millionsmanhours, 10% of the overall project workload, were spread over 4 fabricationyards, with a strict respect of HSE project requirements. In line with projectschedule, local companies achieved the fabrication of various equipements:suction piles, FPSO structures, offloading buoy, subsea manifold modules, XTfunctional testing and almost all umbilicals of the project lay-out. These 3.8 millions manhours performed for Pazflor represent in average around500 persons working on a full time basis during the 3 years of the fabricationphase on the Angolan ground