Nyusi Receives To Talenergies CEO In Pemba
Maputo, 4 Feb (AIM) – Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi received the chairperson and CEO of the French oil and gas company, TotalEnegies, Patrick Pouyanne, on Friday in Pemba, capital of the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
According to a press release from Nyusi’s office, the two men discussed “all the aspects concerned with the Mozambique LNG project, to be undertaken in Area One of the Rovuma Basin, including the humanitarian and security situation in Cabo Delgado”.
TotalEnergies heads a consortium which plans to build two natural gas liquefaction plants on the Afungi peninsula, in Palma district. However, the work came to a halt, and TotalEnergies withdrew its staff, when islamist terrorists attacked and occupied the district capital, Pemba town, in March 2021.
Subsequently, the Mozambican defence and security forces, and their allies from Rwanda and SAMIM (the SADC Military Mission in Mozambique), drove the jihadists out of the town. The government has insisted repeatedly that it intends to create adequate security conditions for the resumption of the LNG project.
During his visit, Pouyanne visited the Afungi industrial zone, the Quitunda resettlement village, Palma town, and Mocimboa da Praia, another town that was recaptured from the terrorists in the 2022 counter-offensive.
At the end of the visit, according to the release, Pouyanne told Nyusi that, in his opinion, the situation in Cabo Delgado had improved greatly thanks to the actions of the Mozambican forces and their allies.
Nyusi and Pouyanne “recognized that the return of the population to normal life and the gradual re-establishment of public services are taking place at a good pace”.
However, Pouyanne added that TotalEnergies has hired a specialist to advise the company about the humanitarian situation in Cabo Delgado.
Mozambique LNG is the second LNG project to be developed in Cabo Delgado, and the first to be undertaken onshore (the first was the Coral South floating LNG platform, about 40 kilometres off the Cabo Delgado coast, operated by the Italian energy company, ENI).
The gas for Mozambique LNG will be pumped from the Golfinho and Atum fields, located in Area One of the Rovuma Basin, to Afungi where the two liquefaction plants (known as “trains”) will be built. They will have an installed capacity to produce 13.1 million tonnes of LNG per year.
TotalEnergies is the operator and holds 26.5 per cent of the shares in Mozambique LNG. The other partners in the consortium are Mitsui of Japan (20 per cent), Mozambique’s own National Hydrocarbon Company (15 per cent), PTTEP of Thailand (8.5 per cent), and the three Indian companies Oil India, ONGC Videsh, and Bharat Petroleum (10 per cent each).
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