- The facility will produce 70 per cent of the LPG consumed in the country
By MOZTIMES
Maputo (MOZTIMES) – Mozambique has begun producing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), following the official inauguration of an Integrated Processing Facility, owned by the South African petro-chemical giant Sasol, on Wednesday in Inhassoro, in the southern province of Inhambane.
According to data presented at the event, the plant has the capacity to produce 30,000 tonnes per year of liquefied petroleum gas and approximately 4,000 barrels per day of light oil.
Speaking at the ceremony, President Daniel Chapo, who inaugurated the facility, stated that the plant will enable Mozambique to reduce its imports of liquefied petroleum gas by approximately 70 per cent. Up until now, the country has imported all the LPG it consumes.
“This project is more than a physical structure, it marks a strategic shift, symbolising a country that has stopped viewing its resources from the outside and has begun transforming them within its borders, with vision, ambition and a sense of national sovereignty and independence,” said the President.
Sasol has been extracting natural gas in Mozambique since 2004 but, until now, almost all production was exported to South Africa through an 860-kilometre pipeline linking the production fields in Inhassoro to the industrial region of Gauteng, in South Africa. (MT)
