Plataforma flutuante de gás natural Coral Sul, na bacia do Rovuma
Maputo, 24 Feb (AIM) – The French oil and gas company, Total Energies, and its American counterpart, ExxonMobil, have launched a joint tender to contract seven vessels and support tugboats after it was concluded that both companies will handle 400 natural gas vessels annually in the Afungi peninsula, northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.
Total Energies heads the Mozambique LNG Project, which is budgeted at about 20 billion dollars. It had been forced to halt operations in 2021 following a major terrorist attack against Palma town. However, now the company has resumed the project, as the security conditions have improved.
For its turn, ExxonMobil is leading the construction and operation of future natural gas liquefaction and related facilities for the Area 4 deep water block off the Cabo Delgado coast. The project is operated by Mozambique Rovuma Venture (MRV), a joint venture owned by ExxonMobil, the Italian energy company ENI, and CNPC of China.
In a statement cited by the Portuguese News Agency, Lusa, both companies announced that the tender is aimed at finding “safe and efficient services for the transport, loading and unloading of LNG from production sites to global markets.”
These services include, in addition to human resources, five tugboats with 80 tons of static traction, a pilot boat and two workboats, with the tender already anticipating the movement of 160 LNG tankers and ten condensate tankers annually for Area 1, and 220 LNG tankers and 15 condensate tankers for Area 4.
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