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The new production facility will add 4.2mn tpy, and the debottlenecking of existing trains will contribute another 3.4mn tpy.
Mele Kyari, NNPC’s group managing direc- tor, said late last year that NLNG would continue
to expand after the completion of Train 7. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed the group to build another five pro- duction trains, bringing the total number up to 12, he explained.
The proposed refinery will process oil from a field near Pande and Temane (Image: Sasol)
Mozambique mulls small-scale refining project in Inhambane
MOZAMBIQUE
CARLOS Zacarias, the chairman of Mozam- bique’s National Petroleum Institute (known as INP), said last week that his organisation backed plans for a small-scale refining project in the southern province of Inhambane.
Speaking to reporters in Maputo, Zacarias said that the project would involve the process- ing of light crude oil from Inhassoro, one of four hydrocarbon fields discovered in the Mozam- bique Basin. Inhassoro is close to the Pande and Temane licence areas, he noted.
INP hopes to see Inhassoro deliver about 5,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil to the proposed refining facility, he explained. The plant will use the crude as feedstock for the production of liq- uid petroleum gas (LPG), he stated.
Zacarias went on to say that work on the new refinery was already underway. The facil- ity should be able to start production in two or three years, he said. It will eventually turn out 20,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of LPG that can be packaged in cylinders and used as cooking gas,
he said. This is enough to cover 70% of Mozam- bique’s domestic demand at current levels, he added.
Inhassaro, Pande and Temane, along with Buzi, all lie within the Mozambique Basin. They were discovered in the 1950s by Gulf Oil, which merged with Standard Oil of California to form Chevron in 1985. Both Pande and Temane are under the control of South Africa’s Sasol. The former field contains natural gas, while the latter holds both gas and condensate. Sasol has been extracting gas and condensate from the sites since 2004.
According to Zacarias, INP has been certify- ing the costs for development work at Pande and Temane since 2004. The institute is now working with the World Bank to provide the same kind of certification for Mozambique’s LNG projects, he stated. The certification process involves check- ing the figures provided by oil and gas compa- nies in order to make sure no recoverable costs have been overlooked, he said.
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