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Consequently, BP’s British Mentor tanker a joint venture owned by Eni, ExxonMobil (US)
was unable to take on LNG and sailed away to and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC);
another destination. Galp (Portugal); KOGAS (South Korea) and
As of press time, neither Eni nor BP had ENH, the national oil company (NOC) of
confirmed reports of a change in schedule for Mozambique.
Mozambique’s first LNG export cargo. The partners are using the Coral Sul FLNG
Eni is the operator of the Coral South LNG to liquefy gas from their licence area. \This
consortium, which has a licence for a section of a vessel has a single production train and is cur-
block known as Area 4 offshore Mozambique in rently anchored in 2,000-metre-deep water. It
the Rovuma basin. The Italian major discovered has a production capacity of 3.4mn tonnes per
the Coral field at Area 4 in 2012 and made a final year (tpy) and will be used to process 450bn
investment decision (FID) in favour of going cubic metres of gas from the Coral field. It is
forward with the $10bn Coral South LNG pro- the first floating gas liquefaction plant ever to
ject in 2017. The other shareholders in the pro- be deployed at a deepwater field off the coast of
ject are Mozambique Rovuma Venture (MRV), Africa. ™

Uganda, Tanzania sign MoU on conversion

of Namanve TPP into gas production unit

UGANDA/TANZANIA UGANDA’S government plans to convert the the following day that the power station would
Namanve thermal power plant (TPP) into an actually be turned into an LNG plant. She also
LNG production unit and has signed a memo- stated that LNG was the government’s preferred
randum of understanding (MoU) with the gov- option, as it generated fewer harmful emissions.
ernment of Tanzania with the aim of supporting “Due to the clean energy transition, I thought
the project, Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa it wise to convert this 50-MW thermal power
has revealed. plant to cleaner energy, which is LNG ... LPG is
“I will be unveiling the whole plan of the not natural gas, as it still contains carbon in it,”
Namanve Thermal Power Plant, which uses fos- she wrote.
sil fuel. I cannot keep quiet when we are convert- The government’s move follows its reposses-
ing it into clean energy using natural gas,” she sion of the TPP, which had been managed by an
was quoted as saying by Business Daily. outside investor since 2007. Kampala entered
Ugandan press sources, including Business into a 13-year build, own, operate and transfer
Daily, initially reported on October 24 that the (BOOT) concession with Jacobsen Elektro Nor-
minister had announced that Kampala intended way) in 2007.
to convert the 50-MW TPP into a facility capa- After that concession expired in 2021, Kam-
ble of turning out LPG, a light hydrocarbon fuel pala put the plant back under the control of
that is also known as cooking gas. state-owned Uganda Electricity Generation Co.
However, Nankabirwa said in a Twitter post Ltd (UEGC). ™

Ugandan authorities regained control of the TPP in 2021 (Photo: UEGC)

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