{"id":10209,"date":"2012-04-24T04:29:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/mozambique-to-buy-gas-from-south-africas-sasol\/"},"modified":"2012-04-24T04:29:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:29:19","slug":"mozambique-to-buy-gas-from-south-africas-sasol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mozambique-to-buy-gas-from-south-africas-sasol\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique to buy gas from South Africa&#8217;s Sasol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Pipeline to cost $40 million<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gas to go to industry initially, citizens from 2014<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Agnieszka Flak  and William Mapote<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MAPUTO, April 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Mozambique will buy 6 million<br \/>\ngigajoules of gas from South African petrochemicals group Sasol<br \/>\n to bring cleaner energy to the country, the head of<br \/>\nstate-owned Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH) said on<br \/>\nMonday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nelson Ocuane said ENH will need to build a 30-kilometre<br \/>\n(19-mile) pipeline from Matola, where Sasol&#8217;s current pipeline<br \/>\npasses on the way to South Africa, to the capital Maputo and<br \/>\nfurther north to the Maracuene district.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The cost of the pipeline, expected to be completed by<br \/>\nSeptember next year, is estimated at $40 million.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After three years of talks we have finally managed to agree<br \/>\na good price for the gas to make this project sustainable,&#8221; he<br \/>\nsaid at a signing ceremony in Maputo.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ocuane said the government would also subsidise the gas to<br \/>\nsupply its resident at prices 40 percent cheaper than currently<br \/>\navailable.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It will initially be supplied to industry and services such<br \/>\nas hospitals and to residents from 2014.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Pipeline to cost $40 million * Gas to go to industry initially, citizens from 2014 By Agnieszka Flak and William Mapote MAPUTO, April 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Mozambique will buy 6 million gigajoules of gas from South African petrochemicals group Sasol to bring cleaner energy to the country, the head of state-owned Empresa Nacional de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}