Seven submitted bids for the hydrocarbon licensing round in Mozambique - Government

Seven international consortia submitted bids on the fifth research contest and gas production released in October by the Mozambican government, according to a media release by the National Oil Institute (INP).

According to the note, announcing that the tender has ended on Thursday, in the running for the exploration and production of hydrocarbons are seven consortia led by companies Total (France), Eni (Italy), ExxonMobil (USA), Troisade and Delonex (both from England), Rosneft (Russia) and Sasol (South Africa).

The competition focuses on 15 blocks in northern, central and southern Mozambique, with a total length of 74,402 square kilometres.

INP indicates that it will announce the tender results within three months, after assessing the impact on health and environment, technical expertise, financial capacity and economic advantages to the Mozambican state proposed by each of the competing consortia.

Gas reserves estimated at 200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas have been discovered in recent years in Mozambique in research carried out by consortia led by Italian Eni and the US Anadarko in the Rovuma basin, northern Mozambique.

The South African multinational Sasol is exploring natural gas in Pande and Temane in southern Mozambique, having built a 850 kilometre pipeline linking the gas fields to the company's industrial complex in South Africa.


Source: Lusa

Photo: INP

Mozambique's First Offshore Licensing Round Closes August 31st

Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos de Mocambique (ENH) launched Mozambique's first offshore licensing round March 31st with 14 of its 31 blocks in the Mozambique Indian Ocean aquatory on offer, ranging from Blocks 16 and 17 offshore Temane and Blocks 19 and 20 offshore Pande, northward along the coast to just south of Angoche. The round closes August 31st.

Vintage data and data acquired by Western Geophysical in 1998-99 is available. In addition, ENH recently commissioned Elf Aquitaine to conduct both seismic and geophysics synthesis work over this largely unexplored sector near the Zambeze Delta, where water depths range from 1,800 to 3,000 meters.

Edited by Dev George

China ofereceu autocarros à empresa de transportes públicos de Maputo, Moçambique

2011/07/18    NOTÍCIAS

Maputo, Moçambique, 18 Jul – O governo da China ofereceu 72 autocarros novos à empresa Transportes Públicos de Maputo (TPM), um donativo avaliado em 30 milhões de yuans (cerca de 4,6 milhões de dólares), informou quinta-feira a agência noticiosa moçambicana AIM.

A decisão do governo da China de oferecer autocarros, da marca Yutong movidos a gasóleo, visou, de acordo com a AIM, ajudar Moçambique a minimizar o problema da falta de transporte de passageiros.

Falando durante a cerimónia da recepção dos autocarros, o primeiro-ministro moçambicano, Aires Ali, afirmou existir um acordo para o envio de peças sobressalentes e acrescentou ter-se a China comprometido igualmente a montar uma oficina e enviar técnicos a Moçambique para formar os funcionários da TPM na manutenção daqueles autocarros.

Por seu turno, o embaixador chinês em Moçambique, Huang Songfu, enalteceu os progressos económicos e sociais registados por Moçambique nos últimos anos e garantiu que o seu país pretende continuar a ajudar Moçambique na luta contra a pobreza.

A AIM informou ainda que a empresa TPM possui uma capacidade para transportar apenas 10% dos passageiros, actualmente calculados em cerca de 900 mil por dia, situação que poderá melhorar com alguns investimentos recentemente efectuados. (macauhub)