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Mlima was first identified as a drilling target at least five years to bring any offshore finds on
by US-based Anadarko Petroleum, the previ- stream.
ous operator of Blocks L11A, L11B and L12. It “From the moment when you drill an explo-
is adjacent to the section of Block L10B where ration well to when you actually start produc-
Pancontinental Oil & Gas drilled the Sunbird-1 tion, a long time (years) is needed to study
well in 2014, marking the first discovery of crude geological data, assess commercial viability,
oil off the coast of East Africa. get government approvals, design and build
If Eni finds commercial quantities of hydro- an infrastructure,” Marilia said in response to a
carbons in Mlima or in other sections of its three query from the Nation newspaper.
Lamu Basin blocks, it will develop them within Equity in Blocks L11A, L11B and L12 is
the framework of the production-sharing con- currently split between Eni, the operator, with
tracts (PSCs) it signed with the Kenyan govern- 41.25%; TotalEnergies (France), formerly
ment in December 2020. According to Cioni known as Total, with 33.75%; and Qatar Petro-
Anna Marilia, Eni’s media relations manager leum (QP), with 25%. QP farmed into the pro-
for sub-Saharan Africa, the company will need ject in 2019. ™

Work begins on Temane GTP project

MOZAMBIQUE MOZAMBIQUE’S government has marked the transmission line project to [a] financial close,”
beginning of work on a natural gas-to-power he said.
(GTP) project designed to expand domestic The new TPP is being built by Central Ter-
electricity supplies. mica de Temane (CTT), a consortium formed
In a ceremony held on May 31, Mozambican by Globeleq (UK), eleQtra (UK), Sasol (South
President Filipe Nyusi hailed the start of con- Africa) and EDM. Sasol has agreed to provide
struction on a 450-MW thermal power plant gas for the TPP from its onshore Pande-Temane
(TPP) and associated transmission infrastruc- Inhassoro fields, and Globeleq will supply elec-
ture in the southern city of Temane. The pro- tricity to EDM under a 25-year tolling agree-
ject will allow Mozambique’s national power ment. ™
provider, Eletricidade de Moçambique (EDM),
to use locally produced gas to make electricity
more widely available, he said.
“Today we mark a milestone in the frame-
work of this endeavour to illuminate Mozam-
bique,” he was quoted as saying by Reuters.
“Our governance aspires that more than 10mn
Mozambicans will have access to electricity for
the first time in their homes by 2024.”
The initiative also won praise from Idah
Pswarayi-Riddihough, the World Bank’s coun-
try director for Mozambique and four other
African states. “Today, we are witnessing the
exceptional beginning of a vision that aims to
provide energy for all Mozambicans,” she said at
the launch ceremony. “This is a transformative
project for the country.”
Meanwhile, Dennis Hearne, the US ambas-
sador to Mozambique, noted that his country
had provided financial support to the GTP pro-
ject in the form of a $200mn direct loan from
the US International Development Finance
Corporation (IDFC). He also pointed out that
the US government was supporting a related
initiative – namely, the Temane Transmission
Project (TTP), which envisions the construc-
tion of a 563-km, 400-kV power transmission
line linking the Temane TPP to South Africa’s
national grid.
“[Thanks] to the support of the US govern-
ment’s signature Power Africa programme, we
are providing a ‘transaction advisor’ assigned
to EDM to help bring the critical Temane The Pande and Temane fields will provide gas for power generation (Image: Golder)

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