Mozambique: Galp provides cooking gas, fuel to 20,000 displaced people

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Mozambique: Galp provides cooking gas, fuel to 20,000 displaced people

7:27 CAT | 21 May 2021

Photo courtesy: GALP

Portuguese oil company Galp is supporting 20,000 people displaced due to armed attacks in Cabo Delgado with cooking gas and fuel, the company said on Thursday in a statement.

“The supply of fuel and 45-kilogram bottles of LPG by Galp allows for the preparation of meals for people who are resettled in Metuge District and also in the 25 de Junho camp [both in Pemba, the provincial capital],” the company said.

The project is being run in coordination with the civil society platform Makobo, which has been managing various programmes to support populations affected by violence, emphasising food support.

“We seek to support projects that, in addition to the delivery of essential goods, also boost social integration,” said Paulo Varela, chairman of Galp Mozambique, cited in the statement.

Armed groups have terrorised Cabo Delgado since 2017, with some attacks claimed by the ‘jihadist’ group Islamic State, in a wave of violence that has led to over 2,500 deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project, and 714,000 displaced people, according to the Mozambican government.

The most recent incursion by these groups occurred on 24 March in Palma, almost six kilometres from the gas project under construction, causing dozens of deaths and injuries.

The Mozambican authorities announced they controlled the town. Still, the attack led oil company Total to abandon the site of the project scheduled to start production in 2024. Many of Mozambique’s economic growth expectations for the next decade are anchored.

Portugal’s Galp, Kogas (South Korea) and Mozambique’s Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (Mozambique) each have a 10% stake in a consortium for exploration and natural gas in Area 4 of the Rovuma basin, off the coast of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, led by Italian oil company Eni and US company ExxonMobil.

Source: Lusa