In the next few years, Mozambique will have its second floating platform for extracting liquefied gas in the Rovuma basin, the result of an agreement between the South Korean company Samsung Heavy Industry and the Mozambican government.
The announcement was made in early June by the head of South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industry, Youngkyu Ahn, speaking to journalists at the end of his meeting with the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, who was visiting the Asian country.
According to the newspaper Notícias, Nyusi met with the heads of the shipbuilder Samsung, which manufactured the Floating Platform (FNLG), Coral Sul, to discuss models of cooperation in heavy industry and to guarantee the start of construction of the second one with the same capacity: 3.4 million metric tons per year.
The platform will be built in coordination with Technique of France and another Japanese company, and will have the same capacity as the one already installed to produce 3.4 million metric tons per year.
The start of construction is dependent on the approval of the development plans by the Mozambican government.
The Korea-Africa summit, attended by the chief executives of Korean and African companies, discussed matters of economic, technological and other development, where Mozambique hopes to identify opportunities for cooperation.
Source: MZNews
