LNG industry of Mozambique
LNG plants
Mozambiqie has 3 LNG projects: FLNG plants Coral, Mozambique Zone 1 and Rovuma LNG.
Mozambique’s LNG plants
Сombined operating, under construction and planned capacity amounts to 38 MTPA. This will bring Mozambique from scratch at the beginning of this decade to secind-tier leaders of the LNG industry at the beginning of the next decade.
FLNG plants Coral
This project consist of operational Coral South FLNG (the first stage of the project) and Coral North FLNG under construction (the second stage of the project).
Mozambique Zone 1
Planned capacity of this onshore plant is 13 MTPA. Estimated cost of construction amounted to 20 billions of USD. The plant's resource base is Mamba field in offshore block 4. Gas will inflow to the plant through a 45-kilometer underwater pipeline.
Construction was halted in 2021 due to a standoff with local population. This confrontation caused numerous casualties (estimated up to 800 people).
This project is 100% controlled by foreign companies from France (TotalEnergies with 26.5% share), Japan, India and Thailand, which is probably the real reason for the discontent of local communities.
In October 2025, Total Energy lifted the force majeure on the project and is preparing to resume construction work. Key area of preparation is project financing. TotalEnergies is demanding compensation from the Government of Mozambique in the amount of 4.5 billion USD for the delay in the implementation of the project.
In December 2025 UK Export Finance, a government agency of the Great Britain, has taken the decision to halt financing for the project which was originally seen to benefit Britain. Previously it agreed to finance in the amount of 1.15 billions of USD.
Rovuma LNG
ExxonMobil’s Rovuma LNG (18 MTPA) project is under development. Final investment decision is expected in 2026.
However, there is limited economic sense nowadays for US company to develop LNG project abroad and compete with domestic US LNG projects. The only exception if ExxonMobil will grab almost all profit of this project. ExxonMobil canceled in the end of October 2025 a public meeting jointly with Mozambique's president, Daniel Chapo, at which they were supposed to reaffirm the company's commitment to the Rovuma LNG project. Security situation may well be the reason for that cancellation.
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