MOZ MIGHT RESCUE SD

His Majesty touring the CRTD natural gas power generation plant in Moamba. (Pics: Len Mohale)

MATSAPHA – Swaziland could soon benefit from newly-discovered Mozambican natural gas.
The gas is used by companies in that country to produce electricity.

This benefit could come following his Majesty’s visit to two companies that produce electricity using Mozambique’s natural gas.
Mozambique has an enormous energy potential, which provides the country with favourable means to fulfil its domestic and regional energy needs for Southern Africa and beyond.

The latest discoveries of mineral coal with reserves estimated at 20 billion tonnes and natural gas estimated at 277 trillion metric cubes, as well as the abundant water resources with a potential of 18 000MW, puts Mozambique in a very privileged position both in the region and in the world.
Its vast potential in the field of renewable energy, particularly biomass, solar and wind energy, also adds to that country’s potential as a global reference in the energy sector.

In 2000, the South African company, Sasol, which had also conducted important surveying activities in partnership with CMH S,A a subsidiary of ENH, entered into a 25-year agreement with the Government of Mozambique to develop a project aimed at producing 120 Million Giga Joules of natural gas for domestic use in Mozambique and export it to South Africa.

This agreement enabled the implementation of the gas project from the gas fields in Pande and Temane, and the construction of an 865km pipeline between Temane and Secunda, in South Africa, which in turn, allowed the country to become the biggest producer and exporter of natural gas in the Southern Africa region.

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