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History made as Mozambique delivers

first LNG cargo to Croatia

CROATIA MOZAMBIQUE has made its first liquefied nat- Sul offshore facility operated by Italy’s Eni in
ural gas (LNG) shipment to Croatia, two months mid-November 2022. It is the smallest of three
This comes two months after the southeastern African nation started LNG projects earmarked for the same field,
after Mozambique exporting the fuel. Rovuma Basin, off Mozambique’s northern
started exporting the State-owned LNG Croatia said in a state- coast. A partnership led by TotalEnergies
fuel. ment that a vessel, British Mentor, had docked (France) may soon resume development of its
on Monday, January 23 at its UPP Terminal. $20bn, 13mn tpy onshore project after it halted
“What is especially interesting about the work in early 2021 following an attack by Isla-
arrival of this ship is the fact that it is transport- mist militants at a nearby town. ExxonMo-
ing LNG from Mozambique, which means that bil (US) has on several occasions postponed
this is the first time [the] terminal has acquired taking a final investment decision (FID) on
LNG from that part of Africa,” the LNG regasifi- its $30bn, 15mn tpy project due to a number
cation firm said in a release on Monday. of factors, including the five-year insurgency
The 2019-built 173,400 cubic metre vessel that has displaced up to 800,000 people and
was carrying 140,000 cubic metres of LNG, resulted in more than 4,000 deaths, mostly of
reports say. civilians.
Mozambique exported its first LNG cargo All production from Coral Sul will be
from the 3.4mn tonne per year (tpy) Coral bought by BP. ™

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