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Mozambique: First LNG platform to arrive offshore Cabo Delgado in December

The floating platform that will be the first to produce natural gas in the Rovuma basin will be in Mozambican waters in December, Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi announced on Wednesday.

“We have received with pleasure the information from the operator that the integrated exploration and processing platform will arrive in Mozambique in December of this year,” he said, bringing forward a previous  forecast  which indicated the arrival of the FLNG for the first quarter of 2022.

Nyusi was speaking in Maputo, during the opening session of an event linked to the extractive industry, with participants from the sector and in a speech in which he summarised the country’s prospects in the area.

“The platform may reach the target of starting production in 2022,” the President said, with a capacity of 3.4 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year (mtpa).

The Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy (Mireme), Max Tonela, had announced in March that construction of the platform in Korean shipyards in Busan was”at about 90 percent” and that work should be completed in December, to reach Mozambican waters in the first quarter of next year.

The minister said at the time that everything was in place for the operation to begin in July 2022, after the platform offshore Cabo Delgado is linked to gas wells in the Rovuma basin and thus process it for export, via special cargo tankers.

The platform is part of the Area 4 consortium led by Exxon Mobil and Eni from the Coral Sul gas reserves

Source: https://clubofmozambique.com/news/mozambique-first-lng-platform-to-arrive-offshore-cabo-delgado-in-december-president-watch-190065/