{"id":10259,"date":"2012-04-25T16:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/petrosa-says-in-talks-with-mozambique-for-gtl-plant\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:30:55","slug":"petrosa-says-in-talks-with-mozambique-for-gtl-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/petrosa-says-in-talks-with-mozambique-for-gtl-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"PetroSA says in talks with Mozambique for GTL plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">MAPUTO, April 25<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South African state-owned oil<br \/>\ncompany PetroSA is in talks with Mozambique to develop a<br \/>\ngas-to-liquids (GTL) plant to feed growing demand for diesel in<br \/>\nthe country and region, a senior official said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gareth Shaw, PetroSA&#8217;s business development manager for GTL,<br \/>\nsaid his company was proposing the building of a 40,000<br \/>\nbarrels-per-day plant at a cost of around $4 billion.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The plant could feed a growing need for fuels, and diesel in<br \/>\nparticular, in the southern African region.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shaw said the plant could use PetroSA&#8217;s new low-temperature<br \/>\nFischer-Tropsch technology, which would boost the share of<br \/>\ndiesel produced in the plant to 70 percent from 40 percent seen<br \/>\nin other types of GTL technology.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The industrial growth Mozambique is experiencing is driving<br \/>\ndiesel consumption in this area,&#8221; Shaw told a mining and energy<br \/>\nconference in Maputo.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mozambique is a net importer of fuel, with some 900,000<br \/>\ntonnes of fuel products brought into the country each year, the<br \/>\nnational fuels director has said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Consortia led by U.S. oil and gas producer Anadarko<br \/>\nPetroleum and Italy&#8217;s Eni have made huge gas<br \/>\ndiscoveries in Mozambique&#8217;s Rovuma offshore basin.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s total recoverable resources are seen at more<br \/>\nthan 100 trillion cubic feet, industry officials and analysts<br \/>\nh a ve said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While producers are first likely to build liquefied natural<br \/>\ngas plants in Mozambique, and some have already announced plans<br \/>\nto do so, Shaw said there was scope for a GTL plant after that.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Agnieszka Flak; Editing by Jon Herskovitz and<br \/>\nMark Potter)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAPUTO, April 25 (Reuters) &#8211; South African state-owned oil company PetroSA is in talks with Mozambique to develop a gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant to feed growing demand for diesel in the country and region, a senior official said on Wednesday. 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