{"id":48407,"date":"2026-10-19T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48407"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:46:35","slug":"mozambiques-enh-in-talks-with-sas-sasol-on-gas-project","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mozambiques-enh-in-talks-with-sas-sasol-on-gas-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique\u2019s ENH in talks with SA&#8217;s Sasol on gas project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Mozambique&#8217;s state-owned oil \u200bcompany Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH), is in talks with potential investors, including South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Sasol and pipeline company ROMPCO, for a new natural gas project as the country aims to become a regional &#8220;power hub&#8221;, the chief executive of ENH said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Mozambique, the primary supplier of gas to S\u200bA from Sasol\u2019s onshore Pande and Temane fields that are expected to \u200bbe depleted within a few years, has massive resources in its \u2060offshore Rovuma Basin and could help meet SA\u2019s future gas demands.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The new \u200bproject, centred on the coastal towns of Beira and Inhassoro, is expected to cost \u200babout $250 million and would involve the development of floating storage and regasification units at Inhassoro and the Port of Beira.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">A new 140 kilometre pipeline would connect the facilities to the larger ROMPCO \u200bpipeline, the main gas artery running from Mozambique to SA&#8217;s Secunda industrial complex.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">ENH \u200bis part of a group of state-owned companies handed an exclusive 30-year concession last year to build \u200cand \u2060operate natural gas facilities in the Southern African country where oil companies TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil and Eni, opens new tab are developing large LNG plants.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31730,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-48407","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"New natural gas project","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48409,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48407\/revisions\/48409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}