Mozambique is poised to ship its first cargo of liquefied natural gas overseas, joining the ranks of the world’s exporters as a global energy crunch pushes prices of the fuel Continue Reading
As the EU grapples with an energy crisis and seeks alternatives to Russian pipeline gas, the bloc plans to increase its financial support to a military mission in Mozambique – Continue Reading
Security forces from Rwanda and Mozambique have taken the Mozambican port city of Mocímboa da Praia from insurgents, whose attacks in the area forced France’s giant TotalEnergies to suspend a Continue Reading
The future of Mozambique’s gas ambitions hinges on its ability to end a deadly insurgency linked to Islamic State, but if peace is the answer the southern African country and Continue Reading
The global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market, which was set to be constantly loose in the second part of this decade, is instead set to get tighter and could even Continue Reading
The European Union will consider sending a civilian training mission to Mozambique to help the government withstand a growing insurgency, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday. Mozambique’s Continue Reading
France’s supermajor Total declared force majeure on Monday on its US$20-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique following recent Islamist militant attacks in towns close to the site. The Continue Reading
France’s Total has declared force majeure on its Mozambique LNG project and removed all staff from the site on the Afungi Peninsula, it said April 26. Total had already suspended Continue Reading
Mozambique has been rightly considered one of the most promising new frontiers of gas production in the world, the Rovuma Basin that is located along the border of Tanzania and Continue Reading
French group Total suspends work at gas plant near Palma despite authorities’ claims order has been restored. The attack bore all the hallmarks of the Islamist insurgents that have terrorised Continue Reading
The future of the $60-billion project is now in doubt. The French Energy company Total withdrew all its personnel from its Afungi liquid natural gas (LNG) facility near Palma, on Continue Reading
The Mozambican army has been battling insurgents since 2017. Total on Friday abandoned its installations on Afungi peninsula. All Total staff have been withdrawn, unlike the closure on 1 January Continue Reading
A US$20-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project led by France’s Total in Mozambique is beyond the reach of Islamic state-aligned insurgents who started last week a coordinated attack near the Continue Reading
“The remobilization of the project that was envisaged at the beginning of the week is obviously now suspended,” Total said In a statement Saturday (27 Mar) “Total has decided to Continue Reading
Frelimo bet the country on gas – and has just lost the bet. The Frelimo leadership was dazzled by the gas, and believed Mozambique would be like Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Continue Reading
Fighting continues in the Cabo Delgado town of Palma and concerns are growing that Mozambique may never be able to pacify the area enough to enable the return of Total Continue Reading
With more than a week of fierce fighting including beheaded bodies in the streets, the battle for the northern Mozambique town of Palma has highlighted the southern Africa country’s insurgency Continue Reading
The French oil and gas company Total has announced that it is suspending resumption of work on building natural gas liquefaction plants in the Afungi Peninsula, in the northern Mozambican Continue Reading
Militants have been battling the Mozambican army around Palma for days Dozens of people are dead following an attack on the town of Palma in northern Mozambique, according to a Continue Reading
An insurgent attack on a Mozambican town near a $20 billion liquefied natural gas project that Total SE is building left dozens of people dead and state infrastructure destroyed, the Continue Reading
Jihadi rebels are fighting to capture Palma, a strategic town in northern Mozambique where fighting continued Thursday after launching a three-pronged assault on the center a day earlier. The town Continue Reading
Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi has held talks with his counterpart in neighboring Tanzania to prepare a wider regional response to violence from Islamic State-aligned insurgents that threaten the progress of Continue Reading
Supermajors ExxonMobil and Total are renegotiating a natural gas resource sharing deal for their respective liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects offshore Mozambique, Reuters reports , citing sources with knowledge of Continue Reading
Total SE CEO Patrick Pouyanné and Mozambican president Filipe Nyusi met to discuss an intensifying Islamic State-linked insurgency. Bloomberg) — Total SE Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanné and Mozambican president Continue Reading
France’s Total has signed a pact with the government of Mozambique to bolster security for a US$20-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) development the energy group leads in the African country, Continue Reading
Back in 2010, Texas-based Anadarko Corp. (now a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp. ) and Italian energy giant ENI SpA announced the discovery of approximately 180 trillion cubic feet of Continue Reading
Fighters linked to Islamic State took control of a northern Mozambican port town that’s been a key logistics link for a $23 billion natural-gas project being built by Total SE, Continue Reading
Highlights Militants kill eight contract workers close to LNG developments Home to more than 30 million mt/year of planned LNG capacity Developers could look to private military contractors: analyst London Continue Reading
Gunmen have recently killed eight workers from a firm subcontracted by France’s Total to work on its $20-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique, the subcontractor company said on Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil Corp ( XOM.N ) and Total ( TOTF.PA ) have asked Mozambique to send more troops to guard their operations in the far north after a surge of Continue Reading
Exxon could announce the final investment decision for the Rovuma LNG project in Mozambique tomorrow, according to the African country’s government. Exxon has denied the report, the Globe and Mail Continue Reading
Mozambique, on the verge of being transformed with the development of major LNG export projects, needs to improve government finances and the country’s social environment for the projects to generate Continue Reading
Militants have attacked Anadarko’s LNG project in Mozambique in what is the first attack on the oil and gas industry in the African country, Bloomberg reports , citing Portuguese news Continue Reading
Tokyo Gas Co, Japan’s largest gas utility and a major LNG player, and British energy supplier Centrica agreed on Tuesday to jointly purchase 2.6 million tonnes of LNG per year Continue Reading
On Monday morning, Mozambican soldiers opened fire to disperse protesters calling for natural gas projects to be suspended until more pressing issues, particularly fundamentalist insurgents, are dealt with. Nonetheless, Mozambique Continue Reading
The field of global liquefied natural gas (LNG) producers will get even more crowded going forward. U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil said Monday that it, along with project partners in Continue Reading
Exxon has secured long-term purchasing commitments for liquefied natural gas from its Rovuma project in Mozambique, moving closer to a final investment decision on a facility that will add as Continue Reading
Rome-based Eni, which earlier this decade led the discovery of an estimated 85 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in Mozambique, on Wednesday signed an accord in Maputo that will Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil and Eni announce they’ve submitted the development plans for a liquefied natural gas facility to the Mozambique government for approval. Photo courtesy of Eni July 9 (UPI) — Continue Reading
Anadarko Petroleum’s personnel at a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in northern Mozambique have been placed under ‘lock-down’ due to safety reasons, following Islamist militant attacks in the area, Continue Reading
ExxonMobil Corp. and Eni SPA have signed a sale and purchase agreement to enable ExxonMobil to acquire from Eni a 25% indirect interest in the natural gas-rich Area 4 block Continue Reading
CEO met Mozambican President Nyusi last week to discuss deal Exxon also in parallel talks with Anadarko over stakes Exxon Mobil Corp. is in advanced negotiations with Eni SpA over Continue Reading
Mozambique is heading towards a major default on outstanding loans related to offshore natural gas infrastructure, symbolizing the deflating hopes for a major source of new natural gas production from Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire a stake in a giant Mozambique natural gas development project from Italy’s Eni SpA, a sign that major oil companies are Continue Reading
To boost gas use across southern Africa A cooperation agreement has been signed to build a $6 billion, 2,600 km pipeline to send natural gas from offshore Mozambique to South Continue Reading
Anadarko has cleared this portion of forest near Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique, as part of preparations for a new onshore drilling site. Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal Few roads lead to this fishing village on the eastern shores of Africa. Drinking water and electricity are in short supply. Hazards include venomous snakes, malaria-bearing mosquitoes and gun-toting antigovernment rebels. But this is where Anadarko Petroleum wants to build one of the biggest projects ever attempted by a Western energy company. It has pledged to install acres of air-conditioned housing, an airstrip and a port—and to relocate almost 3,000 villagers currently living in mud huts. The search for oil has drawn companies to remote locations throughout the petroleum industry’s history. But Anadarko isn’t here for black gold. The American company is after something more abundant, albeit less lucrative: natural gas located about 30 miles offshore. There is more than […]
