Total decision puts Nyusi on the spot

摘要

TOTAL has had enough. A month after fatal attacks on Palma town in northern Mozambique by Islamist insurgents, the French supermajor this week invoked force majeure on its $20 billion Mozambique liquefied natural gas project. The Afungi construction complex near Palma - which will host Total's initial pair of Mozambique LNG trains plus two more planned by ExxonMobil -is now a mere shadow of the busy site it was last year when thousands of workers were putting the building blocks in place for a project that represents the largest ever foreign direct investment in Africa. Afungi is now a ghost town, housing only security forces after all oil company and contractor personnel were flown out.