With East Africa emerging as a significant oil and gas region, WorleyParsons is seeing renewed interest in countries such as Mozambique and has invested in several projects across the country
Over the last 13 years, WorleyParsons has provided engineering and project management services to many of Mozambique’s largest developments from ROMPCO’s 865 km, 26 inch gas pipeline from Temane gas fields to Sasol’s Gas-To-Liquids facility in Secunda, to Vale/CDN’s Railway Corridor linking the Moatize coal basin to Nacala Port.
The Nacala Railway Corridor in particular is a flagship project for WorleyParsons Mozambique Lda that has enabled the company to build a strong team and reputation in one of Africa's fastest growing economies. At the peak of the Nacala rail construction in 2015, WorleyParsons Mozambique Lda had 145 professionals in-country.
Some of the other projects of the company include the development of the Anadarko Area 1 Gas Field and liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant including early infrastructure master planning, design of the resettlement village, pre-FEED and FEED oversight of the subsea instructure. WorleyParsons also designed the subsea risers for ENI’s Coral field supplying gas for their Floating LNG facility, the first LNG project in Mozambique to reach financial close.
Furthermore, the company has also provided a variety of planning and construction supervision services for the completion of Syrah Resources’ Balama Graphite mine, the largest flake graphite mine in the world. WorleyParsons’ electricity sector expertise has been applied on the Kuvaninga 40MW Gas Engine Power Plant, recently commissioned in Mozambique.
According to Ryan Froude, country director at WorleyParsons for Mozambique, the project delivery company aims to build a strong, sustainable engineering and project services business in Mozambique.
Currently, the company has a teaming agreement with Consultec, a wholly owned Mozambican engineering consulting company, on projects in hydrocarbons, mining, power and related infrastructure in Mozambique.
