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Mozambique: Total LNG construction site declared free of coronavirus infection – Petroleum Institute
8:11 CAT | 04 Jun 2020
FILE PHOTO - Total camp in Palma, Cabo Delgado. [File photo: CDD Moçambique]
The construction site of Total’s natural gas processing complex in northern Mozambique is free of infection by the new coronavirus, after being a transmission site, the authorities announced on Wednesday.
“The site is free of Covid-19 contamination,” Carlos Zacarias, president of the National Petroleum Institute (INP), said at a press conference in Maputo.
He said that after the first case was detected at the premises of the Total consortium in Afungi, Cabo Delgado province (in the north of the country), health authorities traced the contacts, isolated the suspicious cases and those infected.
All 880 workers at the venture were tested, work was reduced to a minimum and several people were quarantined.
The president of INP advanced that prevention also forced the activities related to the development of gas projects in Rovuma to be stopped, namely the construction works of the future LNG plant and the resettlement process of the communities.
Operations are currently being reprogrammed, with the aim of resuming the work as soon as the conditions are in place.
In addition to Total, the Area 1 consortium is owned by the Japanese company Mitsui (20%), the Mozambican state oil company ENH (15%), the Indian NGOC Videsh (10%) and its subsidiary Beas (10%), Bharat Petro Resources (10%) and the Thai PTTEP (8.5%).
The INP president said that the prevention of the Covid-19 pandemic had also led to a standstill in hydrocarbon research in other parts of the country.
The situation also forced the launch of the sixth international hydrocarbon exploration tender to be postponed, added Carlos Zacarias.
Mozambique has 316 cases of covid-19 infection, with two deaths and 109 recovered.
Source: Lusa
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