MOZAMBIQUE: South Korea to send patrol vessel to rovuma basin
The South Korean government will soon send a patrol vessel to Mozambique to provide security to Coral Sul Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) platform from the Coral South reservoir offshore Mozambique.
The platform is anchored in Area 4 of the Rovuma Basin, some 40 kilometres off the coast of Cabo Delgado province.
This is the first deep-water platform in the world to operate at a water depth of about two thousand meters.
According to Wednesday’s issue of the daily paper “Noticias” this was announced by special envoy of South Korean President, Byoung-Gug Choung, shortly after an audience granted by the Mozambican Head of State, Filipe Nyusi, in Nairobi where he attended the swearing ceremony of the Kenyan President-elect, William Ruto.
Byoung-Gug Choung added that the vessel would also provide maintenance and operation of the platform.
The floating platform, which was manufactured in South Korea, arrived in Mozambique in January of this year. It is the most advanced in the world in terms of production of liquefied natural gas.
Once fully operational, the terminal will produce 3.4 million tonnes of LNG per year. All of its output over the next 20 years has been bought by BP. However, a spokesperson for BP, contacted by AIM, was not able to comment on the movements of “British Mentor”.
The Coral South project will be the first of three projects to produce LNG in Mozambique. The main participant in Area 4 is Mozambique Rovuma Ventures, a partnership between ENI, the US oil and gas giant ExxonMobil and the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), which together control 70 per cent of the undertaking. The remaining 30 per cent is divided equally between the Mozambican state hydrocarbon enterprise ENH, Galp Energia of Portugal, and Kogas of South Korea.
Byoung-Gug Choung congratulated President Nyusi on Mozambique's election as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and took the opportunity to request Mozambique's support to launch its candidacy for the same body in 2024.
He also asked for Mozambique's support for South Korean bid to host Expo-2030, which will focus on climate change, pandemics and digital divide.
Choung recalled that next year both Mozambique and South Korea will celebrate 30 years of cooperation.
He stressed that both countries have been cooperating in education, health, agriculture, which could be expanded to other fields of expertise.
'I promised President Nyusi that South Korea will do much more so that we have concrete projects and programmes to boost our cooperation,' he said.
(AIM)
