Maputo News
Mozambique authorises Shell’s bid for gas field
Mozambique's ministry of natural resources has given the green light to the bid by Royal Dutch Shell to buy out Cove Energy’s 8.5 per cent stake in a major gas field.
In April, Shell Bidco, a...
Maputo News
Mozambique to buy gas from South Africa’s Sasol
Mozambique is to buy six million gigajoules (GJ) of gas from South African petrochemicals group Sasol, according to the state-owned Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH).
Until now most of the...
Maputo News
New gas pipeline for Maputo port
Construction of a two-km long gas pipeline to receive domestic gas from Maputo port is to be completed by April, according to Mozambican fuel importer Importadora Mo
Maputo News
Australian company to export coal from Mozambique in 2012
Australian company Riversdale Mining plans to begin extracting coking coal from its mines at Benga, in the northern Mozambican province of Tete, in November. However, due to ongoing work on the port t...
Maputo News
US oil company Anadarko Petroleum Corporation has discovered oil deposits at a depth of 5,100 metres off the coast of northern Mozambique. The announcement was made by Mozambique's minister of mineral...
Maputo News
Mpanda Nkuwa dam project to begin in 2010.
Construction of the Mpanda Nkuwa hydroelectric power station in the western Tete province is due to begin next year, energy minister Salvador Namburete has said. The plant will be located on the Zambe...
Maputo News
Government tackles oil crisis.
The government has suspended import duties and sales tax on kerosene and diesel in an attempt to mitigate the rising price of oil and petrol products on the global market. The exemptions come into for...
