MAPUTO – The Mozambican government says conditions have now been put in place for TotalEnergies to resume its stalled US$20 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the north of the country, three years after a deadly insurgent attack forced the energy giant to pull out.
Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Estevão Pale, told journalists during an event in Inhambane on Monday that government efforts had cleared the path for the long-delayed return to operations in Afungi, Cabo Delgado.
His remarks follow a high-level meeting last week between TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné and Mozambique’s President Daniel Chapo, where restarting the gas development topped the agenda.
“It was a meeting with the perspective of restarting activities,” Pale was quoted as saying by Portuguese news agency Lusa. “At the government level, all the conditions are being created to allow investors to restart activities as quickly as possible.”
TotalEnergies suspended work on the site in April 2021 following attacks by Islamic State-linked insurgents, which displaced thousands and raised serious concerns over safety in the region.
The French energy company has since expressed cautious interest in resuming development during the summer of 2025, although it has not confirmed an official timeline.
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