Mozambique

Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.

It takes only 3 days for an LNG carrier or oil tanker to reach India from East Africa where Tanzania is destined to become an LNG exporter together with its neighbor Mozambique and a transit point for Ugandan oil exports.

Eni has proposed that its partners in the Rovuma LNG project construct a second floating liquefied natural gas processing facility to circumvent political risks that have disrupted ExxonMobil from building an onshore megaplant.

South Africa’s Sasol has nixed plans to invest in the proposed African Renaissance Pipeline, opting instead to import LNG by tanker from Mozambique where TotalEnergies, Eni, and ExxonMobil are developing projects.

Africa’s first floating LNG facility will be towed from South Korea to its new home on the Coral South project.

The South African Development Community has agreed to send up to 3,000 troops to contain Mozambique’s terrorist insurgency after Total declared force majeure and evacuated all personnel from its Mozambique LNG worksite.

NJ Ayuk, the executive chairman of the African Energy Chamber, writes that the chamber stands ready to assist and that, to develop a long-lasting solution, leaders should think about the kinds of things that make an area ripe for insurrection.

Mozambique said its security forces repelled an attack by Islamist insurgents on a town close to the site where Total is building a $20 billion natural gas facility.

With one of the world’s lowest electrification rates, Mozambique is moving to give its citizens a brighter future. Together with South Africa’s Sasol, the country endeavors to attract global EPCM companies and international financing to create a power generation hub fueled by gas from onshore fields.

The LNG project includes development of offshore gas fields in Mozambique’s Area 1 and a liquefaction plant with a capacity in excess of 12 mtpa. The gas turbines are slated for delivery in 2H 2021 and 1H 2022, and the compressors are expected in 2021.