Matola Gas Company Pipeline

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The Matola Gas Company Pipeline, known locally as Gasoduto de Matola or Gasoduto MGC, is an operating gas pipeline in southern Mozambique.

Location

The pipeline starts at a junction with the Mozambique-South Africa Gas Pipeline in Ressano Garcia, Mozambique and runs to the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique's capital city, by way of the Malhampsene compressor station.

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Project Details

• Owner: Matola Gas Company
• Parent company: ENH (50.4%), Gigajoule Group (49.6%)
• Capacity: 8 million gigajoules per year (21 MMcf/d)
• Length: 100 km / 62 miles
• Diameter: Unknown
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 2005
• Financing:

Background

The Matola Gas Company Pipeline is a 100 km natural gas pipeline in southern Mozambique. Construction of the main pipeline began in June 2004 and was completed in March 2005. Gas for the pipeline comes from the Pande and Temane gas fields via the Mozambique-South Africa Gas Pipeline. Customers supplied by the pipeline include several industrial users in Machava and Matola, northwestern suburbs of Mozambique's capital city, Maputo. Since September 2014, the pipeline has also supplied households and businesses in Maputo and Marracuene.