US-based oil and gas company Anadarko Petroleum a consortium consisting of TechnipFMC and Van Oord as the preferred tenderer for the engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) of the offshore subsea system of the Mozambique LNG export project on the Afungi peninsula in the Cabo Delgado province of northern Mozambique.
Mozambique LNG (MLNG) is being developed by Anadarko (26.5%) in partnership with Mitsui E&P Mozambique (20%), ONGC-OIL (16%), Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH, 15%), Bharat PetroResources (10%), PTTEP (8.5%) and Oil India (4%). It will exploit gas reserves from the Offshore Area 1 in the Rovuma basin (estimated to hold more than 2 100 bcm or 12 Gboe). The project will consist of two liquefaction trains with a total nameplate capacity of 12 Mt/year. The final investment decision (FID) on the project is slated for the first half of 2019 and the project could start production in 2022-2023.
In February 2018, Anadarko Petroleum signed a first long-term LNG sales and purchase agreement with the French power utility EDF to supply 1.2 Mt/year of LNG to EDF over a 15-year period. In June 2018, it signed a non-binding Heads of Agreement (HoA) with the British energy group Centrica and the Japanese gas utility Tokyo Gas to supply 2.6 Mt/year of LNG from the start-up of production.
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