Navantia performs sea trials Patrol Navy "Pebane" Mozambique

[Used Combat <> 29May2013-02] The Spanish state company Navantia has made during the May tests Sea Patrol "Pebane" P-001 Navy Mozambique, as the final phase of the modernization work carried Repairs performed by Navantia shipyard in San Fernando.

Subsequently training took place in the sea of ​​the Mozambican crew of "Pebane" final stage of the Spanish Armada taught by training course regarding operation, security, navigation and knowledge to anyone reltivo the operation of the vessel .

This training is part of the contract signed by Navantia with the Mozambican government, and opens the possibility of continuing with other ships from the Spanish Armada, which would, once modernized by Navantia, to join the Navy Mozambique.

Patrolman "Pebane" P-001 will be transferred to the port of Maputo on board the vessel MV Panagia on 29th May reaching the capital of Mozambique on June 18, 2013.

Two Steps To First Gas Off Mozambique

SECTION: IN THE NEWS · JANUARY 9, 2013 · 1 COMMENT  | TAGS: FEATURED

American independent Anadarko took the second major step towards a Four Train, 20MMTPA LNG plant from Offshore Mozambique on Tuesday January 8, 2013.

The company’s award of a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to a Joint Venture vehicle comprising Fluor and JGC comes two weeks after it reached Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Eni, establishing foundational principles for the coordinated development of the common natural gas reservoirs spanning both Mozambique’s Offshore Area 1 (operated by Anadarko) and Offshore Area 4 (operated by Eni). Anadarko targets the first LNG cargo for 2018.

The facility will be located in the Cabo Delgado province, 2 000 km north-east of Mozambique’s capital, Maputo. Anadarko discovered massive reservoirs of gas in the Indian Ocean offshore Mozambique in early 2010. Eni arrived later, continuing the luck in a different block. Both companies are on record as saying that the reservoirs are some of the largest discoveries in their portfolios in over 10 years.

New York listed Flour and Japanese firm JGC have a 50-50 partnership in the JV that won the FEED contract. They say they have “ brought together a talented and experienced team that leverages the combined strengths of JGC’s industry-leading LNG experience with Fluor’s fifty-plus year reputation for executing large complex projects in sub-Saharan Africa.”

The FEED will deliver designs for the initial phase of the project, which will consist of four trains, each capable of producing five-million tons a year of liquefied natural gas (LNG), culminating in 20-million metric tons a year. The project has the potential to expand to a capacity of about 50-million metric tons a year of LNG.

Hydrocarbons in Cabo Delgado

Hydrocarbons in Cabo Delgado

Pemba is the capital of Cabo Delgado Province, the northern most province of Mozambique bordering Tanzania. Together, Anadarko (American) and ENI (Italian) as consortium leaders of off-shore areas 1 and 4, respectively, have discovered gas fields potentially suitable to transform and export as LNG to asian markets. The resources discovered in exploration phases on the off-shore areas are in the range of 100 to 120 tcf gas in place.

Statoil (Norwegian) and Petronas (Malaysian) each hold two large contiguous exploration blocks South of the Anadarko and Eni blocks. The image to the right shows some of the current discoveries and the sizes of the blocks with their respective consortium leaders.

Anadrako and ENI have decided to use Pemba as the hub for their upstream off-shore activities. Seven of the top ten E&P companies are also basing operations in Pemba.

Anadarko’s projected location for the LNG plant for Cabo Delgado is Palma, the northern-most district on Mozambique’s vast shoreline. It is the closest land point from the gas fields that will likely be developed.

World-Class Beauty in Cabo Delgado

The coastline of Cabo Delgado is home to the Quirimbas archipelago, of approximately 27 islands, streatching from the border with Tanzania down nearly 250 km towards Pemba City. Pembaland also provide brokerage of some of these island investments that are for seeking development capital or are exiting, as well as locations on the pristine beaches along the Cabo Delgado coastline. Pleasecontact us with your interests.