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PetroSA in talks with Mozambique for GTL plant; 70% diesel output

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South African state-owned oil company PetroSA is in talks with Mozambique to develop a 40,000 barrels-per-day gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant there. The country’s total recoverable resources are seen at more than 100 trillion cubic feet, industry officials and analysts have said.

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Walkabout Resources’ Tanzanian graphite project moves to construction phase

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The licences are within the highly prospective Mozambique belt, a region that hosts some of the world’s highest grade, coarse flake graphite deposits.

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bp begins shipping LNG from Mozambique’s first LNG project and first FLNG platform

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As bp aims for an LNG portfolio of 30 million tonnes by 2030, the new Mozambique supply source expands bp’s flexible, high-quality LNG portfolio and further enhances the company’s capability to deliver LNG to markets globally. a joint venture owned by Eni, ExxonMobil and CNPC), GALP, KOGAS and ENH (Mozambique state entity).

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Syrah Resources signs binding offtake agreement with Tesla for natural graphite active anode material

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The Vidalia battery anode material plant will process natural graphite concentrate shipped in from Syrah’s Balama mine in Mozambique. Balama mine operation in Mozambique. The product mix includes jumbo, large and medium flake for industrial applications and fines.

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Benthic sets new water depth drilling record of 2,776 meters

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miles) was set on a Statoil project in Tanzania, and was beaten with two deployments to 2,776 meters (9,108 feet) a few weeks later on the Anadarko project off the coast of Mozambique. The previous record of 2,754 meters (9,035 feet, 1.7

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Syrah Resources successfully produces Li-ion battery grade spherical graphite; market numbers

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Australia-based Syrah Resources has successfully produced uncoated battery grade spherical graphite, using natural flake graphite from its Balama Graphite & Vanadium Project in Mozambique. Industrial Minerals estimates that it takes 2.5 tonnes of flake graphite on average to make one tonne of spherical graphite.

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Roskill: Spread of COVID-19 threatens cobalt supply; bottlenecks out of DRC

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China is the world’s leading consumer of cobalt, with more than 80% of its consumption being used by the rechargeable battery industry. However, owing to the widespread closures in South Africa, most shipments are now having to be diverted to other neighboring ports such as Maputo in Mozambique or Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

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