Mozambique Oil and Gas Profile

Related Pages

• Mozambique Oil And Gas News
• Mozambique Lng Terminal
• Mozambique Oil and Gas Profile
• Oilmoz Refinery Project

Mozambique News

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Introduction

• Mozambique is a country with no history of oil and gas industry, either upstream or downstream. However, recent discoveries are starting to put the country on the map as far as the industry goes.
• Primarily a number of major gas discoveries have been made and plans existed to monetise these through investment in an LNG Export terminal.
• In addition there are plans for two oil refineries to be built in the country.

Regulation

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History

• 2004 - The Mozambique South Africa Gas Pipeline opened

Upstream

• The main gas producing areas are Pande Gas Field, discovered in 1961, with 2.7 TCF of reserves and Temane Gas Field, discovered in 1967, with 1.0 TCF of reserves.
• These fields were initially not exploited due to the lack of opportunities to sell the gas

Active Companies

• Anadarko is the operator of a 2.6-million-acre Offshore Area 1 with a 36.5-percent working interest. Co-owners in the area are Mitsui E&P Mozambique Area 1, Limited (20 percent), BPRL Ventures Mozambique B.V. (10 percent), Videocon Mozambique Rovuma 1 Limited (10 percent) and Cove Energy Mozambique Rovuma Offshore, Ltd. (8.5 percent). Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos, E.P.'s 15-percent interest is carried through the exploration phase.
• Statoil has a 90% interest in and the operatorship for blocks 2 and 5 in the Rovuma basin off northern Mozambique.

Crude Oils

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Midstream

• In 1998 Sasol proposed to pipeline Temane and Pande gas to their petrochemical plants in South Africa
• * The Mozambique South Africa Gas Pipeline consists of a 865 km-26” diameter steel pipeline to Sasol’s coal-to-liquids complex at Secunda in South Africa (531 km on Mozambican side)

LNG

• Anardarko and partners have discovered considerable quanitites of offshore natural gas. They are considering an LNG Project to monetise it.
• ENI and partners are also planning to build the Mozambique Eni Lng Terminal to monetise large gas reserves they have found offshore

Downstream

• There are no active refineries
• There are two projects being considered, the Oilmoz Refinery Project and the Ayr Petro Nacala Refinery Project

Relevant Links

• Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos de Mocambique (ENH)
• Natural Gas Development in Mozambique
• Statoil, Mozambique

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