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Sanaka Holdings · London

Building value through assets.

A private London-based holding company focused on the long-term ownership of property, oil & gas and mining assets.

Experience

30+ years of experience.
A long-term view.

Sanaka's foundations are in energy — more than three decades of oil & gas management experience, now applied to the ownership and stewardship of assets held for the long term.

Our Experience
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Enduring value, across cycles
Asset Portfolio

Three categories. One discipline.

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01

Property

Tangible, well-located assets, held with a focus on quality and the preservation of value.

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02

Oil & Gas

The sector Sanaka knows best — informed by more than thirty years of management experience.

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03

Mining

Natural-resource assets of enduring relevance, approached with geological patience.

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Our Approach

A disciplined framework, applied patiently.

Five stages govern how Sanaka acquires and holds assets — the same discipline, whatever the category.

01

Identify

02

Assess

03

Own

04

Manage

05

Build

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Assets are held, not traded.

We take a patient view of ownership. Value is preserved and built over decades, not quarters.

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SANAKA HOLDINGS LIMITED
20 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU

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About

An established private holding company.

Who We Are

Sanaka Holdings is a London-based private company devoted to the long-term ownership of real assets.

Its interests span property, oil & gas and mining — categories chosen for their permanence rather than their fashion. The company operates privately and deliberately, preferring the quality of its assets to the volume of its announcements.

Sanaka is not a fund, a broker or an adviser. It is an owner.

Long-Term Perspective

Patience is the strategy.

Cycles pass through every market Sanaka works in. The company's response is consistent: acquire with discipline, hold with conviction, and let time do its work. Decisions are weighed in decades.

I

Real assets, owned directly and understood thoroughly.

II

Management experience applied, not delegated.

III

Discretion, in conduct and in communication.

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Management Experience

Formed in the field, applied at the holding level.

More than thirty years of oil & gas management experience sit behind the company's judgement — the operational understanding of what an asset costs, what it yields, and what it demands of its owner.

Our Experience
London

Registered in London. Oriented to the long term.

The company's registered office is at 20 Wenlock Road, London — a base in one of the world's most established environments for private ownership and governance.

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Established. Experienced. Asset-focused.

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Asset Portfolio

Three strategic categories.

Sanaka concentrates on asset classes it understands deeply: property, oil & gas and mining. Each is approached with the same framework — identify, assess, own, manage, build — and the same long-term intent.

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01 — Property

Permanence, well located.

Tangible assets whose quality and location are chosen to preserve value across generations.

Property
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02 — Oil & Gas

Three decades in energy.

The sector where Sanaka's management experience was formed — and where its judgement runs deepest.

Oil & Gas
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03 — Mining

Geological patience.

Natural-resource assets measured against the longest horizons the company holds.

Mining

Specific holdings are a private matter, discussed directly rather than published.

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Oil & Gas

Energy, managed with experience.

30+

Years of oil & gas management experience

Energy is where the company's judgement was formed — in the management of assets through price cycles, technical challenge and changing regulation.

That experience shapes how Sanaka reads an energy asset today: what it truly costs to hold, how it behaves at each stage of its life, and what disciplined management can and cannot change.

Asset Lifecycle

Owned through every stage of its life.

01 Identification

Opportunities with strategic potential and enduring relevance.

02 Assessment

Rigorous analysis of value, risk and long-term viability.

03 Ownership

Disciplined acquisition, aligning capital with strategic intent.

04 Management

Responsible, proactive stewardship to preserve and enhance underlying value.

05 Building

Resilient assets, intended to hold their worth across generations.

Management Discipline

Experience shows in restraint.

Sanaka speaks the language of ownership and management, not speculation. Its posture in energy is strategic: understand the asset thoroughly, hold it properly, and let its value express itself over time.

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Energy assets deserve experienced owners.

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Mining

Value measured in geological time.

Resource Perspective

Mineral assets reward owners who think in decades and act with discipline.

Mining sits naturally within Sanaka's portfolio: physical, finite and enduringly relevant. The company applies the same framework here as everywhere — rigorous assessment, disciplined ownership and careful management across the life of the asset.

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What the ground holds, time reveals.

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Careful Management

Held with care, managed with discipline.

Resource ownership carries responsibilities that outlast any single owner. Sanaka's approach is conservative: understand an asset before acquiring it, manage it attentively while holding it, and weigh every decision against the long term.

Rigour before acquisition

Attention through ownership

Patience in every decision

The longest horizons in the portfolio.

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Property

The most tangible form of value.

Asset Quality

Quality first. Everything else follows.

In property, Sanaka's criteria are deliberately narrow: sound fabric, proven location and the capacity to hold value across generations of use. Assets that satisfy them rarely need defending.

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Architectural permanence
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Location

Where permanence is proven.

Locations are judged by their record, not their promise — places whose worth has already survived generations of change.

Preservation of Value

Property is held as it should be: maintained properly, let sensibly and never traded for the sake of motion.

Ownership of this kind is quiet work — steady attention to fabric, tenancy and context, so that value is preserved first and enhanced where the asset allows it.

Held for generations, not seasons.

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Experience

30+

Years of oil & gas management experience

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The Foundation

Experience is the company's principal asset. It was earned in energy.

Three decades of oil & gas management taught what no model can: how assets behave through full cycles, where value genuinely resides, and how much patience serious ownership requires. That judgement now governs every category Sanaka holds.

Applied Across the Portfolio

One judgement, three categories.

Energy

The native ground

Managed first-hand for over thirty years — the source of the company's operating instincts.

Property

The tangible ground

The same discipline of quality and holding power, applied to buildings and land.

Minerals

The patient ground

Resource ownership measured against the longest horizons the company holds.

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Experience compounds, like the assets it manages.

How It Is Applied
Our Approach

Five stages. One discipline.

The framework is deliberately simple. Its strength is in the discipline of its application — to every asset, in every category, without exception.

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Identify → Assess → Own → Manage → Build
In Practice

Most opportunities fail the framework. That is the framework working.

Discipline means declining well: assets that cannot be understood are not assessed; assets that cannot be held properly are not acquired. What remains is a portfolio the company can own with conviction — and manage for decades.

An investment philosophy, kept simple on purpose.

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Insights

Perspectives.

Sanaka publishes selectively. Perspectives appear here when the company has something worth saying.

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SANAKA HOLDINGS LIMITED
20 Wenlock Road
London, England
N1 7GU

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Privacy Policy

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1. Introduction

This policy explains how SANAKA HOLDINGS LIMITED handles personal information in connection with this website. The company collects no more information than it needs.

2. Information we collect

If you contact the company, we receive the details you choose to provide — such as your name, company, email address and message. This website does not use advertising or analytics profiling.

3. How information is used

Information you provide is used solely to respond to your enquiry and to maintain an appropriate record of correspondence. It is not sold or shared for marketing purposes.

4. Retention

Correspondence is retained only as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was provided, or as required by law.

5. Your rights

Under UK data protection law you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information the company holds about you.

6. Contact

Requests may be made in writing to the registered office: SANAKA HOLDINGS LIMITED, 20 Wenlock Road, London, England, N1 7GU.

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1. Use of this website

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2. No offer or advice

Nothing on this website constitutes an offer, solicitation, or investment, legal or tax advice, and nothing should be relied upon as such.

3. Intellectual property

The content of this website, including text, imagery and marks, belongs to the company or its licensors and may not be reproduced without permission.

4. Liability

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5. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.

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