
Having concluded a prefeasibility study in December last year, clean energy project developerGigajoule International presented its findings to the Mozambique government in January, after which a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed in April with Mozambique State-ownedoil and gas company Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH).
The MoU laid the foundation for a joint study to examine the feasibility of the pipeline, dubbed Gasoduto do Norte ao Sul de Moçambique, or Gasnosu, that could run from Cabo Delgado toMaputo and to regional markets further south, possibly including Richards Bay, in South Africa.
Prior to that, Gigajoule spent 18 months evaluating the economic and technical feasibility of a project aimed at supplying liquefied natural gas (LNG) to major gas markets in Mozambique.
Subsequently, several Mozambique stakeholders requested Gigajoule to study the feasibility of alarge-diameter north-to-south gas pipeline that could link more markets than an LNG project would.
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