Mozambique has closed bidding for 16 offshore oil and gas exploration blocks — attracting bids on just six blocks, from a total of just two companies, Italy’s Eni and Chinese state-owned oil company CNOOC

Mozambique is entitled to draw on $317.2 million in guarantees posted by major oil and gas companies, who have failed to meet deadlines to drill exploration wells on blocks they were awarded in the country’s fifth auction round

Mozambique's government is keen for work to restart on the huge LNG projects in Cabo Delgado, but the global gas companies say security has not yet been restored

Sep Borrell says first LNG shipment to leave for Europe 'within days', and that EU financing should be made available for Rwanda's as well as the SADC's military deployments in Mozambique

Eni chief executive Claudio Descalzi said the company is considering “fast LNG” technology which takes less than a year to install and begin producing LNG

Sasol has completed planned divestments from its gas pipeline and gas-fired power plant in Mozambique

Mozambique needs a new solution for its domestic gas allocation, after Shell and Yara abandoned their plans for gas-to-liquids and fertilizer projects

TotalEnergies will assess “safety conditions” to determine whether to resume work on its LNG project on Afungi by the end of 2022, and has denied that it demanded a 25km safe area around the project site

The Mozambican government has promoted the director of projects and development at petroleum regulator INP to the post of chairman, taking the place of Carlos Zacarias who was appointed minister of mineral resources and energy in March

Tanzania's president has moved to revive the country's mothballed LNG projects and says she wants new discoveries to overtake Mozambique's reserves