Mozambique Oil & Gas: Next licensing round in 2017/2018

Mozambique, which has vast offshore gas reserves, will hold its sixth round of oil and gas licensing round late in 2017 or in 2018, a government official told an industry conference on Tuesday.

Augusto Macuvele, a senior official with Mozambique’s National Petroleum Institute, provided few details about the rounds in the presentation at the Africa Oil Week conference in Cape Town.(source: by Wendell Roelf and Ed Stoddard; Editing by James Macharia)