Mozambique’s president Daniel Francisco Chapo and TotalEnergies’ ceo Patrick Pouyanné have relaunched the Mozambique LNG project.
TotalEnergies declared force majeure at the project in April 2021 due to insurgent activities destabilising the region. The declaration was lifted in October 2025; the cost of the project was reported to have risen by more than USD4.5 billion while activities stalled.
Mozambique LNG, originally costed at USD20 billion, will have an annual production capacity of 13 million tonnes of LNG. Construction activities have now restarted both offshore and onshore at Afungi site. First LNG is expected in 2029. Project progress is currently at 40 percent – almost all engineering and procurement of main equipments have been executed during the force majeure period.
