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Sub-Saharan Africa could yield

extra 74mn tpy of LNG supply

AFRICA
SUB-SAHARAN Africa could provide an extra “By 2025, sub-Saharan Africa will house four
74mn tonnes per year (tpy) of LNG export onshore LNG terminals and three FLNG units,
capacity by 2030 if the market conditions are able to export 60mn tpy of LNG,” ACTING said.
right, the African Coalition for Trade and Invest- Final investment decisions (FIDs) could
ment in Natural Gas (ACTING) estimated in a be taken on a further 74mn tpy of capacity by
report on February 9. 2030, ACTING said, estimating that the gas
This supply would be in addition to the 60mn offshore Mauritania, Senegal and Mozambique
tpy of export capacity that the region is expected could justify 90mn tpy. An approval at the Exx-
to have up and running by 2035, ACTING said. onMobil-led 15.2mn tpy Rovuma LNG project
The organisation was established only on Febru- could come “in the near future,” ACTING said,
ary 3 by the African Energy Chamber and invest- but it cautioned against expectations of further
ment research firm Hawilti. growth.
Sub-Saharan Africa can also expand its gas “Anything beyond that is very uncertain, at
consumption, primarily through gas-to-power best,” it said. “Simply put, the outlook for future
projects, ACTING said. sub-Saharan African LNG export projects is
“Natural gas has the potential to be a true unclear.”
enabler of economic recovery post-COVID and In the medium and long term, though, mar-
to support Africa’s energy transition,” African ket conditions could clear the way for further
Energy Chamber chairman Nj Ayuk said. FIDs, including on further development of BP’s
The region currently yields only limited Mauritania/Senegal project, bringing its capacity
amounts of gas, despite its abundant resources. to 10mn tpy.
It has 33.8mn tpy of operational LNG export Other potential projects are Senegal’s 10mn
capacity spread across Angola, Cameroon, Equa- tpy Yakaar-Teranga and Mauritania’s 10mn tpy
torial Guinea and Nigeria, while a further 26mn Bir Allah-Orca LNG facilities, and an expansion
tpy has been sanctioned and is under develop- at Mozambique LNG to 42mn tpy.
ment. This includes Nigeria LNG’s seventh train, “Such projects now depend on their devel-
BP’s floating LNG scheme in Mauritania/Sene- opers’ ability to optimise cost and find new syn-
gal, and the Total-operated Mozambique LNG ergies, especially when it comes to brownfield
and Eni-led Coral FLNG in Mozambique. expansion plans,” ACTING said.™

FUELS

Savannah strikes CNG deal in Nigeria

NIGERIA NIGERIA-FOCUSED Savannah Energy has systems and equipment.
struck a deal to sell gas to Egyptian firm Mulak Mulak is in “a unique position to exploit the
Energy, for compression for subsequent use in synergies with Mantrac’s business in Nigeria”
power generation. through the switching of around 400 MW of
In a statement on February 5, Savannah diesel-fired generation with compressed nat-
said its subsidiary Accugas would deliver gas to ural gas (CNG) fuelled power, Savannah said.
Mulak over a seven-year period from its majori- These conversions will reduce the energy costs
ty-owned Uquo field. Shipments will reach up to of Mantrac’s customers by 40% and their carbon
2.5mn cubic feet per day (25.8mn cubic metres footprint by 30%.
per year) during the first two years, while vol- By entered the CNG market, Savannah “sig-
umes in the remaining five years are yet to be nificantly extends the reach of [its] existing 260-
decided. km pipeline network into light industrial and
Mulak, a subsidiary of Egypt’s Mansour con- even domestic power generation without the
glomerate, will compress the gas and ship it to need for further investment in pipelines,” the
industrial customers in Nigeria’s River State, in London-listed company’s CEO, Andrew Knott,
order to substitute diesel in small-scale genera- said.
tors. These generators are supplied by Mantrac Mulak CEO Omar Hassan added that his
Group, another member of Mansour and a company was “certain that gas will play a central
major dealer in Caterpillar machinery, power role in fuelling Nigeria’s growth.”

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