The Angola LNG project is exploring expansion options as the facility is expected to ramp up gas supplies over the next 12 months. Options include adding a new processing unit and mini train with a capacity of three million tons per year of natural gas.
Additional supplies to the Angola LNG facility are expected to come from energy supermajor Chevron’s Sanha Lean Gas Connection, which is due to start production at the end of 2024.
Further gas supplies will come from the Quiluma and Maboqueiro fields – developed by the New Gas Consoritum – which will be the country’s first non-associated gas exploration projects. The fields are expected to be drilled early next year.
Anticipated additional supplies will allow the facility to operate at full capacity, Azule Energy CEO Adriano Mongini told Reuters at African Energy Week 2024.
Designed to deliver up to 5.2 million tons of LNG per year to the global market via up to 80 cargoes annually, the $12 billion Angola LNG project currently operates at 70% capacity, averaging around 700 million standard cubic feet of natural gas per day.
Angola LNG is a joint venture project between Angola’s national oil company Sonangol, Chevron, energy supermajor TotalEnergies and international energy company Azule Energy.
