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Mozambique signs MoU with South Korea for vehicular natural gas
1:56 CAT | 05 Sep 2018
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Mozambique is to sign a memorandum of understanding with the South Korean government in Seoul today to implement the use of natural gas in the national car fleet, a government source has told Lusa.
The signing of the memorandum is portrayed as “a right step in the right direction” in the employment of the natural gas, of which Mozambique is a producer, the same source added.
Mozambique intends taking advantage of natural gas to lower its approximately US$800 million per year import bill for fuels, since using natural gas to power cars costs about half the price of conventional fuels.
The memorandum of understanding will be signed by the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy of Mozambique, Ernesto Max Tonela, who is visiting South Korea, and the Korean Minister of the Environment, Kim Eunkyung.
The document provides for a pilot project in which 10 filling stations will be built in Mozambique and 150 gas-fuelled buses and 1000 conversion kits imported. Technical assistance will be provided during project implementation.
Two further phases are envisioned for the periods 2021 to 2025 and 2026 to 2030, with a total of 170 filling stations planned, in the expectation that about half the country’s vehicles will eventually run on natural gas.
Source: Lusa
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