AVENG SUBSIDIARY Grinaker-LTA is heading a consortium of South African, Australian, and Greek construction companies which is to build Sasol’s gas pipeline from Mozambique to Secunda. The 865-km long pipeline will link the Temane gasfield in Mozambique to Sasol’s petrochemical plant at Secunda in Mpumalanga.
Gas is expected to start flowing in 2004 after a construction period of about 18 months.
The consortium, which has been chosen from a short-list of six,is made up of Grinaker-LTA, Aveng’s 63%-owned Australian subsidiary McConnell Dowell, and CCIC of Greece. The contract is for the engineering and design, procurement management, construction and commissioning of the gas pipeline from Mozambique to South Africa. The pipeline route originates at the gasfield and processing facility at Temane, near Vilankulo in Mozambique’s Inhambane province, covers 531km in Mozambique, and crosses the border into South Africa at Komatipoort, near the town of Ressano Garcia, continuing for a further 334km to Secunda. The pipeline will be owned by a joint venture between Sasol and the governments of South Africa and Mozambique.
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