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Total to work with Mozambican

government on security

MOZAMBIQUE FRANCE’S Total has entered into a security pact been killed by the insurgents. In July, gunmen
with Mozambique’s government to help protect ambushed and killed eight employees of a pri-
its $20bn Mozambique LNG venture. The move vate construction firm working on Mozambique
comes weeks after a key port near the project was LNG. And earlier this month, militants seized a
captured by Islamic militants. heavily defended port in Mocimboa da Praia
The major has signed a memorandum of after five days of intense fighting. Total and its
understanding (MoU) with the government on partners have been using Mocimboa da Praia as
forming a joint task force to ensure the safety a hub for logistics.
of activities at Mozambique LNG. The project’s The government is understood to be planning
consortium will provide the force with logistical an assault to retake the port.
support. Mozambique LNG is due on stream in 2024
“This memorandum ... reinforces security and will produce 13.1mn tonnes per year (tpy)
measures and endeavours to create a safe oper- of super-cooled gas at its peak. The Golfinho and
ating environment for partners such as Total, Atum gas fields in the Offshore Area 1 conces-
allowing for their continued investment in the sion serve as its resource base.
Mozambican industry,” the government said in Equity in the Mozambique LNG consortium
a statement on August 24. is split between Total with 26.5%, Japan’s Mitsui
Militants with suspected links to Islamic State and JOGMEC with 20%, India’s Bharat Petro-
have been battling government forces in north- leum with 15%, India’s ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL)
ern Mozambique, where several major LNG and Oil India with a further 10%, Mozambique’s
export projects are under development. Attacks national oil company ENH with 10% and Thai-
have become more frequent over the past year. land’s PTTEP with 8.5%.™
To date, more than 1,000 people have

FUELS

UNOC to import more fuel via

Kisumu-Jinja barge route

UGANDA UGANDA National Oil Co. (UNOC) is seek- saying by The Monitor. “Each fuel truck carries
ing to fill petroleum product storage facilities in at least 35,000 litres, yet one [rail tanker wagon]
Jinja, a port on Lake Victoria, in order to facili- carries 1mn litres. In this way. the lake is [a far
tate regional fuel trade. more] efficient mode of transport.”
According to Peter Muliisa, UNOC’s legal Muliisa went on to say that his company
and corporate affairs manager, the company will wanted to keep stock levels high so that the Jinja
achieve this by importing at least 3mn litres per facility, which has a capacity of 120mn litres,
week of gasoline and diesel. These volumes will could serve as a gateway for other African coun-
be shipped to Jinja in rail tankers by barge from tries that import most of their fuel via Kenya.
Kisumu, a Kenyan port on Lake Victoria, he said. This plan gives traders in Burundi, Rwanda,
The Kisumu-Jinja delivery route is already South Sudan and the eastern regions of the Dem-
in use, he noted. Speaking on August 19, he ocratic Republic of Congo (DRC) the option of
reported that UNOC had brought 6mn litres of picking up petroleum products in Jinja rather
gasoline and diesel into the country by barge the than travelling to Kisumu or Mombasa, he said.
previous week. The fuel was transported by rail It will also relieve some of the strain on Kenyan
from Jinja to the company’s storage depot and infrastructure as fuel import volumes rise, he
added to inventories, he explained. added.
UNOC sees the rail-and-barge route as a “Our counterparts in Kenya have fantastic
better option than continued reliance on road facilities, but once we also get to that level, I think
tanker trucks that travel overland, he added. it is going to be a game-changer in a way. But
“Our intention is to ensure that the Jinja storage first, we are committed to ensuring that the vol-
terminals are fully operational, and one way is to umes by the lake increase and eventually become
use the lake for optimisation,” he was quoted as significant mode of transport,” he remarked.™

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