Maputo, 24 Sep (AIM) – The Vice President of the American oil company ExxonMobil, Walter Kansteiner, announced on Tuesday that the technical design of the natural gas extraction project in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado may be concluded within a year.
ExxonMobil is leading the construction and operation of all future natural gas liquefaction and related facilities for the Rovuma Basis Area 4 deep water block off the Cabo Delgado coast, operated by Mozambique Rovuma Venture (MRV), a joint venture owned by ExxonMobil, the Italian energy company ENI, and CNPC of China.
The project has suffered several postponements as a result of extreme violence carried out by the Islamist terrorists in parts of Cabo Delgado.
Kansteiner was speaking to reporters, minutes after being received in an audience by Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi, who is in New York attending various events, including the United Nations General Assembly.
“We announced our Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for the project, and that takes about a year. So we’re looking forward to progress on FEED over the next 12 or 13 months”, he said, cited by the Portuguese News Agency (LUSA).
Last August, the chairperson of ExxonMobil in Mozambique, Liam Mallon, said that the company will resume its projects in Cabo Delgado by the end of 2026.
The project, led by ExxonMobil, includes a large onshore LNG plant, which will produce 18 to 19 million tonnes of LNG a year, large underwater drilling wells to supply the plant and two large floating LNG export platforms off the Cabo Delgado coast.
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