据离岸工程8月23日报道，俄罗斯石油公司Rosneft宣布，已与国家石油研究所(Instituto Nacional de Petroleum, INP)签署合作协议，并与莫桑比克国有企业Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos签署备忘录，共同开发莫桑比克的天然气田。

俄罗斯石油公司表示，它将获得研究现有地质数据的权利，以考察这个东非国家若干陆上和海上区块的潜力，并有机会在未来进入这些区块的项目。

Rosneft首席执行官Igor Sechin表示:“莫桑比克是Rosneft国际业务的前景领域之一。我们渴望进一步扩大在该国的项目组合。我真诚地希望今天签署的协议将有助于实现这一目标。”

莫桑比克是主要的碳氢化合物出口国。Rosneft表示，过去10年，该国天然气产量增长了1.5倍，消费量增长了13倍。

2015年，Rosneft和埃克森美孚的子公司在印度国家石油公司(INP)组织的第五轮开采许可中获得三个区块的开采权:安戈什盆地的A5-B区块，赞比西河三角洲的Z5-C区块和Z5-D区块。

2018年10月，俄罗斯石油公司持股20%的财团与莫桑比克政府公司签署了在上述三个地区勘探和生产碳氢化合物的特许权协议，两家公司开始勘探工作。

邹勤 摘译自 离岸工程

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Rosneft to Develop Offshore Fields in Mozambique

Russian oil giant Rosneft announced it has signed a cooperation agreement with the National Petroleum Institute (Instituto Nacional de Petróleo, INP) and a memorandum with Mozambique's state-owned Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos on Thursday to develop natural gas fields in Mozambique.

Rosneft said it will be granted the right to study available geological data to examine the potential of a number of onshore and offshore blocks in the east African country, with the opportunity to enter projects on those blocks in the future.

Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin said, “Mozambique is one of the perspective areas of the Rosneft’s international business. We are keen on further expanding the project portfolio in the country. I sincerely hope that the agreements signed today will contribute to that.”

Mozambique is a major hydrocarbons exporter. In the last decade, the country's gas output has increased by 1.5 times and its consumption by 13 times, according to Rosneft.

In 2015, subsidiaries of Rosneft and ExxonMobil were declared winners for three blocks in the fifth license round organized by INP: A5-B in the Angoche Basin, and Z5-C and Z5-D in the Zambezi Delta.

In October 2018, the consortium where Rosneft holds 20% signed concession agreements for the exploration and production of hydrocarbons on the three areas with the Government of Mozambique, and the companies started exploration works.