Mozambique's President Daniel Chapo met with Patrick Pouyanne, the chief executive of TotalEnergies, on Monday to discuss several of the company's projects in the southern African country, including a long-delayed $20 billion liquefied natural gas development.

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TotalEnergies has further delayed its troubled $20bn liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique as security concerns and political uncertainty dog one of Africa’s biggest energy investments.

France's TotalEnergies has further delayed its $20 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique, citing ongoing security concerns, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

TotalEnergies has further delayed plans to restart its $20B liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique, saying the project will not be operational by 2029.

TotalEnergies has again delayed the restart of its $20 billion LNG project in Mozambique due to ongoing security issues and political instability.

The setback — first noted by the Financial Times and corroborated by Reuters — follows political instability in Mozambique and the revelation by POLITICO that Mozambican soldiers operating out of TotalEnergies' natural gas plant abducted, raped and killed dozens of civilians.

Mozambique is not looking to review contract terms with energy majors like TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil who are planning multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas projects in the country, its new president said on Friday.