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Cryospain to build Morocco’s first LNG tank

STORAGE CRYOSPAIN, a Madrid-based cryogenic for assembly.
firm, has won a contract for the construction The cryogenic tank, which will be the first of
of an LNG storage tank at Morocco’s Tendrara its kind in Morocco, will have a capacity of 6,000
concession. cubic metres. This will make it the largest tank
According to a company statement, Cryo- supplied by Cryospain.
spain, which is involved in the design, manufac- The tank is likely to be part of the micro-LNG
turing, assembly and commissioning of liquid plant that Sound Energy is building at the Ten-
gas pressure storage tanks, has already started drara concession. The company has said that
work on the flat-bottom LNG tank. The vessel the facility will transfer 350mn cubic metres per
will be installed at Tendrara, one of the largest year of natural gas to the Gaz Maghreb-Europe
natural gas sites in Morocco. (GME) pipeline over a period of 10 years, while
The Spanish firm has been tasked with build- also storing production from the concession in
ing the cryogenic tank and designing related civil Morocco to be turned into LNG for industrial
works. It will also prefabricate the components in use.™
its two production facilities. Upon completion,
the firm will ship the tank components to the site

TotalEnergies to restart work on $20bn

Mozambique LNG project

DEVELOPMENT FRENCH energy giant TotalEnergies is report- said conditions were still not good enough for
edly quietly beginning to resume operations at the project to resume. “We cannot place the lives
its $20bn liquified natural gas (LNG) project in of our workers in danger,” said Rabilloud as cited
northern Mozambique, a year after halting work by Cabo Ligado.
due to an Islamist insurgency in the Cabo Del- The Islamist inusrgency that started in
gado province. October 2017 has resulted in the death of some
According to the March 2022 edition of Cabo 3,400 people, most of them civilians. More than
Ligado, an observatory launched by two local 700,000 have been displaced but some of are
media houses and the Armed Conflict Location gradually returning as Mozambique’s army and
& Event Data Project to monitor violence in that troops from Rwanda, South Africa, Zimbabwe
country, South African contractors are back at and other southern African countries regain ter-
work while local employees who lost their jobs ritory from the insurgents.
last year are being rehired. TotalEnergies, Cabo Ligado reports, is facing
“... at the main camp in Afungi, South African an additional challenge related to resettling com-
contractors are now working on the premises to munities affected by the project and others who
meet new security requirements to protect the settled themselves near the project site. The com-
LNG project workforce. Workers laid off last pany could eventually pay for the rehabilitation
year, after the shutdown of the project, are now of one of the settlements where villagers have
being offered new contracts to return, mainly in sought shelter. The area is defended by Rwandan
social services and community-related activi- troops.
ties,” Fernando Lima, a journalist and political Another challenge for the restart is the pre-
commentator on Mozambique wrote in Cabo vailing insecurity in adjacent districts that are
Ligado. supposed to be defended by a regional force,
TotalEnergies is the operator in a consortium which reportedly lacks personnel and hardware.
that is investing to tap natural gas off Mozam- A $2.4bn redevelopment plan created by the
bique’s coast to an onshore processing facility. government and supported by donors among
The $20bn project plans to produce 12mn tonnes them the United Nations, World Bank, the Euro-
of liquefied natural gas (LNG) yearly, mainly pean Union and the African Development Bank
for export to Europe and Asia. The newsletter is proving ineffective, said Cabo Ligado, owing
says Mozambique and TotalEnergies agree that to disagreements among ministers about the ori-
market constraints created by Russia’s invasion gins and motivations of the insurgency.
of Ukraine in February are creating additional The government says the rebellion was caused
pressure for work to resume. by external forces, specifically the Islamic State,
TotalEnergies country manager in Mozam- while some observers blame “poverty, unem-
bique Maxime Rabilloud recently noted “signifi- ployment, inequality, and ethnic and linguistic
cant improvements in the security situation,” but cleavages”.™

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