The deputy minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, António Saide, urged the entrepreneurs of Cabo Delgado province to improve their productive capacities, through internal or international partnerships, in order to meet the standards required under the local content of oil and gas projects.
Saide, who was speaking recently in the city of Pemba, at the seminar on local opportunities of the Coral Sul FNLG project, developed by the Italian Eni Rovuma Basin, underlined that the Government reiterates the need for synergies because they maximize the transfer and adoption of knowledge and guarantee greater use of opportunities by the national business fabric.
According to Saide, quoted by Notícias, the seminar held in Pemba and attended by representatives of several companies based in Cabo Delgado is inserted in the Government program and aims to disseminate the business and employment opportunities of the oil and gas projects.
This is a periodic platform that promotes interaction with all concessionaires in the mineral resources sector and emphasizing that it is through frank and open dialogue that doubts can be dissipated. Catalyzing and maximizing the participation of Mozambicans in the supply chain of goods and services to oil and gas projects thus establishing an increasing balance between local and global supply.
“The South Coral FLNG is a project whose main activities take place offshore. Still, there are opportunities that can ensure the addition of value in the supply and service provision chains within the scope of local content,” he said.
The business diagnosis carried out by the National Petroleum Institute (INP), to assess the level of preparation of national companies to provide services and supply goods to megaprojects in the oil and gas industry, concluded that few companies meet the qualifications to offer services, so the government is mobilizing resources to certify some of them.
Milissão Milissão, from INP, announced that 50 companies will benefit from this certification package, 25 of which are from Cabo Delgado province, and asked the provincial business council to work on identifying the candidates.
Mamudo Irage, from the Confederation of Mozambique Economic Associations (CTA), assured that everything will be done so that their associates can benefit from the oil and gas projects, among others, in the Rovuma basin, despite the difficult situation in which most of them find themselves, because of the terrorist attacks.
In turn, the representative of Eni Rovuma Basin, Ivan Codognotto, clarified that the Coral Sul FLNG project is a gas development located in Area 4 of the Rovuma Basin, whose main objective is to explore the coral reservoir, through a floating infrastructure of production and liquefaction, anchored more than 50 kilometers from the mainland of Cabo Delgado.
