Under the Terms of Reference of the Mozambique 6th Licensing Round for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production Areas, launched in November 2021 in Maputo, INP - National Petroleum Institute have announced the Pre-Qualifying Results.

From the evaluation of the documents carried out as submitted by the thirteen oil companies; twelve companies were pre-qualified, of which six as Operators and the remaining six as Non-Operators. 

Operators

• CHINA NATIONAL OFFSHORE OIL CORPORATION HONG KONG HOLDING LIMITED "CNOOC"; 
• SINOPEC INTERNATIONAL ENERGY INVESTMENT LIMITED; 
• ENI MOZAMBICO SPA;
• EXXONMOBIL MOZAMBIQUE (OFFSHORE 6) LIMITED;
• PETRO CHINA INTERNATIONAL IRAQ FZE;
• TOTAL ENERGIES EP NEW VENTURE

Non-Operators

• RN ANGOCHE PTE 
• JOINT STOCK COMPANY NOVATEK 
• QATAR PETROLEUM MOZAMBIQUE LIMITADA
• SASOL AFRICA (PTY), LTD 
• ONGC VIDESH LIMITED
• DISCOVERY EXPLORATION LIMITED

AITEO EASTERN EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION COMPANY LTD did not meet the requirements for pre-qualification.

The subsequent stage will comprise the licensing of a minimum of geoscience data for the companies that do not yet have them in order to substantiate the evaluation of the petrolem potentialof the areas of interest and the submission of the corresponding proposals, by 30th August 2022. According to the approved timetable, the results will be published on 30 November 2022. 

The geoscience data can be viewed at INP's physical and virtual Dataroom, whose visit procedures are available on this website or on the official INP website. 

The Sixth Licensing Round for the Concession of Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production Areas was launched in November 2021. 16 new areas were defined, distributed by 4 distinct regions, five of which are located in the Rovuma Basin, seven in Angoche, two in the Zambezi Delta and two in Save, totalling more than 92,000 km².

This tender, which has a term of approximately 10 months, from the launch date until the results are announced in October 2022, comes about three months after the approval of the new Strategy of Concession of Areas for Exploration and Production of Hydrocarbons, which provides the basis for ensuring continuous and systematic exploration of hydrocarbons in the Mozambique and Rovuma basins, promoting national and foreign investment, as well as reducing the time between the holding of public tenders for the concession of areas to 2 years, as opposed to 3 years under previous legislation.

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