AfrOil: TotalEnergies hopes to resume Mozambique LNG project in 2022

Patrick Pouyanné, the CEO of TotalEnergies (France), hopes to see work on the $20bn Mozambique LNG project resume before the end of this year.

Speaking during a visit to Maputo on January 31, Pouyanné stressed that the French major was still waiting for security conditions to improve in Cabo Delgado Province, where the Mozambique LNG consortium has already begun building its onshore complex. “When I will see that life is back to normality, which means having some state services and population, then the project can restart,” he said. “My objective is that we will restart in 2022.”

He did not commit to any specific date, saying that more work needed to be done in the areas overrun last March by an Islamist insurgent group. But he also hailed the steps that have been taken to date, saying: “A lot of progress has been done and frankly in a very short period of time.”