Mozambique Gas Riches Near as $25 Billion LNG Plant Approved; largest FDI ever in Africa

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Anadarko Petroleum Corp. approved a $25 billion liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique that could help transform the economy of one of the world’s poorest countries.

Chief Executive Officer Al Walker signed off on what he called the biggest ever foreign investment in Africa. Anadarko sees potential for Mozambique to become one of the largest LNG suppliers in the world, and the project -- expected to export the fuel to countries in Asia and Europe -- will play a big part. It will be funded with $11 billion of equity and $14 billion of debt.


“Over time this project will double this country’s GDP,” Walker said at the signing ceremony in Maputo with Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi.

It’s taken the American company almost a decade to green-light the development after discovering gas in Mozambican waters in 2010. The country had to draft new regulations for its nascent oil and gas industry, even as uncertain global demand for LNG slowed plans. The government expects $95 billion of revenue over 25 years from this project and others led by Exxon Mobil Corp. and Eni SpA.

“It is the start of a new era for Mozambique,” said Darias Jonker, a London-based director at consultants Eurasia Group Ltd. The size of these projects “will bring tens of billions of dollars of investment” and revenue to the government, he said.

Developing the hydrocarbon resources is crucial for the southern African nation, which has struggled to service its debt in the past. Nyusi could use Anadarko’s planned investment in the project, called Mozambique LNG, to showcase his achievements ahead of elections in October, and hope to compensate for problems with borrowings, according to Jonker.

Mozambique LNG is at the center of a new restructuring deal the government reached with a core group of Eurobond holders last month. While investors will no longer have access to future revenue from the project, the in-principle agreement allows the administration to pay a lower interest rate until after the country’s gas production begins in 2023.

“Both Mozambique’s long-term economic outlook and its ability to reestablish credibility with lenders depend entirely on future gas revenues,” said Anne Fruhauf, vice president at New York-based risk adviser Teneo. Without the investment decision, the situation would look “infinitely bleaker,” she said.

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Total’s Deal

Occidental Petroleum Corp. agreed to buy Anadarko earlier this year. Once that deal is completed, Total SA has an arrangement with Occidental to acquire all of Anadarko’s African assets for $8.8 billion, including Mozambique LNG.

The project will have the capacity to produce 12.9 million tons a year in the first phase, with scope to expand to as much as 50 million tons. It has contracts with key global importers in Asia and Europe, and Mozambique’s location between the Pacific and Atlantic basins is an advantage that will help the country compete with a booming number of LNG suppliers.

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Flexible commercial arrangements, including an innovative co-purchase agreement with Tokyo Gas Co. and Centrica Plc, have helped the project secure “high-quality customers in a crowded LNG market,” Frank Harris, head of LNG consulting at Wood Mackenzie Ltd., said in a note.


Gas from the Anadarko-operated offshore field will be sent to a processing plant on land, where it will be liquefied and then exported. The onshore plant is being built in the northern Cabo Delgado province, an area where a suspected Islamic insurgency began in 2017. While the company says it hasn’t been targeted, one of its convoys was attacked and a contractor beheaded in February.

Anadarko has implemented a resettlement program in the area, and is building roads and an airport. The company has said it will continue to develop the infrastructure until Total takes over.

Exxon’s Rovuma LNG venture is planning a 15.2 million-ton-a-year facility adjacent to Anadarko’s and expects to reach a final investment decision by the end of the year. Eni approved a $7 billion project in 2017.

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Just looking at the Picture you posted Comrade @Farm , clearly shows that Ocean border between Mozambique and Tanzania goes way up into Tanzania following the Mozambique land border, and its the same Logical that Kenya is refusing to follow with Somalia, and mind you this rule is the Law of the Sea that indicates that sea border follows land border in ICJ.

Imagine if Mozambique would have been forced to follow Kenya's Line, they would have lost alot of portion of the 25B$.


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Xoolo Kikuyu's Kenya will lose heavily in the ICJ Court against Somalia.
 
Most useless major language.

Learn Arabic or Mandarin. Those two are way more useful for a Somali.

Mandarin is way to difficult and I dont like the sun/landscape in Arabian peninsula countries so I'll never end up utilising it.

French/Swahili/portugese is on my list possibly Arabic further down the road for the quran.
 

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Mandarin is way to difficult and I dont like the sun/landscape in Arabian peninsula countries so I'll never end up utilising it.

French/Swahili/portugese is on my list possibly Arabic further down the road for the quran.


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I don't have the time to learn a new language, but would love to learn/know both Arabic and Mandarin. The only two languages that I wished I have known during certain Business-like opportunities.
 
Swahili. :faysalwtf: Samaale would not be happy. :siilaanyosmile:

I don't have the time to learn a new language, but would love to ;earn/know both Arabic and Mandarin. The only two languages that I wished I have known during certain Business-like opportunities.

Niiyo I'm setting myself up to finesse Africans in the near future. China is moving away from being a cheap manufacturer, it's building up the countries like Ethiopia to convert them into China's China.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/14/tech/nintendo-google-moving-china-manufacturing/index.html

:patrice: might add amharic to the list...
 

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Mashallah. We used to have a colony in Mozambique where we extracted gold. It's a very nice country.

This is what Somalia could get if Al Shabaab's power and presence was reduced to a few villages in the countryside. I believe that's roughly what they have in Mozambique.
 
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