Eni has successfully concluded a four-month technical training programme for sixteen young Mozambican engineers at its Corporate University in Italy to strengthen local expertise at the Coral Sul Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) project off the coast of Mozambique.
According to local sources, the training was meticulously designed by experts from Eni and Coral FLNG SA, with a curriculum tailored to meet the specific operational demands of the Coral Sul facility.
This marks the second phase of a comprehensive two-year capacity-building programme launched by Eni to support Mozambique’s local content and nationalisation goals in the energy sector.
Trainees for the programme were selected from a pool of 250 candidates from Mozambican University institutions through a strict process that assessed a range of criteria.
Following the completion of the exercise, successful trainees will now move on to specialized training in their respective fields such as Production, Laboratory HSE and Marine.
Eni’s Coral Sul project
Coral Sul is the world’s first ultra-deepwater FLNG facility, designed to operate in water depths exceeding 2,000 meters.
It is located in the Rovuma Basin, about 50 km off the coast of Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
Operated by Eni, the gas project began production in mid-2022 with a capacity of about 3.5 million tons per annum.
The first shipment from the project occurred in November 2022, with BP as the sole offtaker.
Through Coral Sul, Eni is currently the biggest gas producer in Mozambique, and has just recently greenlighted another multi-billion-dollar LNG project called Coral Norte.
Coral Sul training programme
Eni launched the Coral Sul FLNG Project Training Programme in 2019 as part of its commitment to local content development in Mozambique.
It was designed to support Coral Sul, which employs over 300 Mozambicans, many of whom were trained abroad in LNG processing.
Now in its fourth edition, the foreign-based training has benefited over 50 Mozambican graduates, who are already part of the Coral FLNG SA workforce.
The new 16 trainees will be prepared to operate in compliance with both local and international standards, in line with the company’s core values.
According to Mozambique’s National Petroleum Institute (INP), the Coral Sul FLNG project aims to train around 800 Mozambican citizens by 2037.
In a similar move, TotalEnergies recently unveiled plans to support local communities in conflict-prone Cabo Delgado, which is home to its stalled $20 billion LNG project.
The French company signed a $10 million agreement with a government-backed intervention agency to provide social and infrastructure support to residents whose livelihoods have been threatened by years of insurgency.
