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Mozambique
ExxonMobil and ENI push back their LNG plans, but Total sticks to its schedule

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“Cabo Delgado: a gas Eldorado and security nightmare”

Mozambique

Cabo Delgado: a gas Eldorado and security nightmare

The development of Cabo Delgado province's vast gas resources has brought with it the emergence of an armed insurgency, one that is yet to be clearly defined but is already impinging on Total and ExxonMobil's operations there. As the conflict worsens, President Filipe Nyusi has been prompted to seek foreign help. [...]

The Covid-19 pandemic and the uprising in Cabo Delgado have prompted most operators to revise their medium-term plans. Their main financial partner, Standard Bank, reckons the delays will last between several months and several years. [...]

Published on 08/03/2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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“Cabo Delgado: a gas Eldorado and security nightmare”

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Ivory Coast
Total said to be backing out of Abidjan LNG import terminal

For a time, Total was the leader of the CI-GNL consortium in charge of the construction and operation of the future gas import terminal in Vridi, south of Abidjan, but it seems to have thrown in the towel.

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Total's Cabo Delgado LNG project on indefinite hold

Armed violence in the region has brought work on the French major's liquefaction trains to a complete stop. When it will resume is anybody's guess.

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Mozambique
Total's Cabo Delgado security problems may force subcontractors to Mtwara port

Ports on Africa's southeastern shoreline are competing to capture a share of the huge traffic generated by the construction of liquefaction trains by French oil major Total.

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Spotlight | Mozambique
ExxonMobil turns cold on Rovuma LNG but ENI keeps going

In a context of insecurity and low hydrocarbon prices, it remains unclear when US major ExxonMobil will finally decide to launch its giant LNG project in Mozambique, even though its Italian partner ENI is moving ahead.

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Spotlight | Mozambique
Total, Société Générale, TechnipFMC... French groups reign supreme in LNG

Total's arrival in Mozambique in September 2019, which marked a high point in France's efforts to establish its presence in the southern African country, was only the cherry on the cake of a wider-ranging campaign in which French banks and companies were already heavily involved.

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Spotlight | Mozambique
Local content: fragmented bombshell heading Frelimo and Total/Exxon's way

After being bottom on the list of the Frelimo government's concerns since the development of the giant Rovuma Basin gas reserves began in 2010, local content is creeping back up in the pecking order. The question now is whether it [.

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Qatar Petroleum, the great paymaster for Total, ExxonMobil and ENI

Qatar's public oil firm, Qatar Petroleum (QP), has been on somewhat of a spending spree in Africa over the past few months. It is with this buy-happy approach that the company president and CEO, the influential Saad Sherida Al Kaabi, [.

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Africa
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Nigeria
Fertiliser giants Indorama and Dangote in murky waters over urea shortage

Mozambique
ExxonMobil and ENI push back their LNG plans, but Total sticks to its schedule

Ivory Coast
Total said to be backing out of Abidjan LNG import terminal

Spotlight | Mozambique
Total's Cabo Delgado LNG project on indefinite hold

Mozambique
Total's Cabo Delgado security problems may force subcontractors to Mtwara port

Spotlight | Mozambique
ExxonMobil turns cold on Rovuma LNG but ENI keeps going

Spotlight | Mozambique
Total, Société Générale, TechnipFMC... French groups reign supreme in LNG

Spotlight | Mozambique
Local content: fragmented bombshell heading Frelimo and Total/Exxon's way

Spotlight | Africa
Qatar Petroleum, the great paymaster for Total, ExxonMobil and ENI