French energy major Total said resumption of a full work programme scheduled at the Mozambique LNG export project had been postponed after another attack by extremists in the north of Cabo Delgado province.
Occidental Petroleum Corp., the winner of the bidding last year for Anadarko Petroleum and its Mozambique LNG prize, has asked for bids by July 1 for oil and gas properties in the US states of Wyoming and Colorado as it is brought low by debt.
Saipem, the Italian engineering and subsea company working on feed-gas projects for Mozambique LNG, welcomed the added security of the arrival in waters offshore the southeast African nation of a French naval frigate.
Anadarko Petroleum has named former BG Group executive Mitch Ingram as Executive Vice President for International, Deepwater and Exploration to lead the US company’s overseas operations and project management, including the Mozambique LNG joint venture in southeast Africa.