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MOZAMBIQUE - ExxonMobil Revises Rovuma LNG To Reduce Carbon Footprint - 29-03-2023 - Africa Intelligence - Reader View

ExxonMobil is revising its Rovuma LNG project in Mozambique to reduce its carbon footprint by considering smaller, electrified LNG trains. The company has issued tenders for studies on the project, which aims for a total output capacity of 18 million tonnes per year, but the final investment decision may be delayed until 2025. In contrast, TotalEnergies plans to maintain its original design for the Mozambique LNG project, favoring larger trains unaffected by ExxonMobil's changes.

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MOZAMBIQUE - ExxonMobil Revises Rovuma LNG To Reduce Carbon Footprint - 29-03-2023 - Africa Intelligence - Reader View

ExxonMobil is revising its Rovuma LNG project in Mozambique to reduce its carbon footprint by considering smaller, electrified LNG trains. The company has issued tenders for studies on the project, which aims for a total output capacity of 18 million tonnes per year, but the final investment decision may be delayed until 2025. In contrast, TotalEnergies plans to maintain its original design for the Mozambique LNG project, favoring larger trains unaffected by ExxonMobil's changes.

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5/19/23, 6:57 PM MOZAMBIQUE : ExxonMobil revises Rovuma LNG to reduce carbon footprint - 29/03/2023 - Africa Intelligence :: Reader View

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MOZAMBIQUE : ExxonMobil revises Rovuma LNG to


reduce carbon footprint - 29/03/2023 - Africa Intelligence
Africa Intelligence3-3 minutes 3/28/2023

While a decision on a possible second floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility for the Mozambican
offshore Coral field at block 4 is still pending, ExxonMobil is working on the onshore Rovuma LNG plant,
which will be supplied by gas from the same permit.

The oil firm has issued a call for tenders for new studies on the project, including the construction of small
1.5m tonne LNG trains. Interested firms have until 31 March to respond. The total output capacity would be
18m tonnes per year.

The original framework for the development of Rovuma LNG, which had a total production of 15,2m tonnes
included two trains of 7.6m tonnes each. Its design and construction was awarded in 2019, prior to
the Covid-19 crisis, to a trio of firms formed by Technip, JGC and Fluor. The resumption of the studies
risks pushing back the final investment decision to 2025, with the first gas due around 2030.

Environmental issues

But, as Africa Intelligence revealed (AI, 31/01/23), ExxonMobil had been thinking for several months of
scaling down the size of the Rovuma LNG plants to reduce the carbon footprint, in particular by opting for
electric power for the trains.

It is impossible to electrify large, multi-million tonne trains, which are powered solely by gas turbines. But
smaller units can be electrified and connected to the grid or to renewable energy plants. ExxonMobil hopes
this solution would help reduce the project's greenhouse gas emissions. It will be up to the companies that
respond to the tender to find more environmentally friendly ways of producing electricity than gas.

Numerous hydroelectric dam projects such as Chemba, Lupata and Boroma in Tete province, where the
Cahora Bassa project is already located and whose production is destined for South Africa, have been in
the pipeline for years. This alternative could meet the needs of the US oil company, which is keen to
project an image of an environmentally virtuous project.

TotalEnergies sticks to its guns

Unlike ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies is not considering changing the design of Mozambique LNG, which is
located alongside Rovuma LNG on the Afungi Peninsula in Cabo Delgado province. The French major still
favours two large trains of 6.5m tonnes each, the construction of which could resume later this year, or in
2024, thanks to the securing of the area by Rwandan troops, who arrived there in July 2021.

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