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Rendering of Rovuma LNG onshore facility (Image: Eni)
It is not expected to take this step until 2022 at of attacks by Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamo (ASWJ), an
the earliest. Islamist militant group, near the site where it has
Moreover, the US giant could delay further begun construction on a gas liquefaction plant.
(or abandon the $30bn plan altogether) if secu- Like TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil has said it
rity problems in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’s will build an onshore processing facility in Cabo
northernmost, intensify or persist. TotalEner- Delgado to process gas from its offshore licence
gies (France) suspended its own $20bn Mozam- area. As such, it will face some of the same secu-
bique LNG project earlier this year after a wave rity risks. ™

KenGen chooses contractor to study

feasibility of LNG-to-power project

KENYA KENYA’S national electricity provider has oil or kerosene to gas, as well as the construction
reportedly chosen US-based K&M Advisors as of a new gas-fired thermal power plants (TPPs)
its contractor for a feasibility study of a proposed in or near Mombasa, it reported.
LNG-to-power project. As such, the study will attempt to determine
K&M Advisors announced the contract whether regasified LNG is a more cost-effective
award last week, saying it had agreed to perform fuel for power generation than petroleum prod-
this service for state-owned Kenya Electricity ucts in Kenya. (Part of this process will involve
Generating Co. (KenGen) over a period of 10-12 scrutinising a number of different potential
months. The study will address the viability of suppliers.) It will also examine opportunities for
proposals to build an LNG import terminal in supplying gas to Kenyan industrial consumers
the port of Mombasa and examine the potential that are now relying on residual fuel oil or diesel.
technical, financial, economic, social and envi- Kenya is not currently a producer or con-
ronmental impact of such a project, it stated. sumer of natural gas. However, it has expressed
Additionally, K&M Advisors will examine interest in importing gas from neighbouring
the cost and viability of various LNG import Tanzania.
facilities. These will include onshore terminals More specifically, Kenyan President Uhuru
and floating storage and regasification units Kenyatta discussed the possibility of construct-
(FSRUs), as well as smaller-scale options such as ing a cross-border pipeline in May of this year,
rail or truck delivery. during a meeting with his Tanzanian counter-
The US-based consultancy has not revealed part Samia Suluhu Hassan in Nairobi. At the
the value of the contract. It has said that KenGen time, both Suluhu and Kenyatta described the
is looking at plans to build the LNG import ter- proposed pipeline as part of a wider long-term
minal within the framework of a wider effort to initiative that would help the two countries
establish a domestic gas market in Kenya. This share energy resources. They also put the cost of
initiative would entail converting 10 existing building the link along a 600-km route ending
generating facilities that burn heavy residual fuel in Mombasa at around KES121bn ($1.09bn). ™

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