Industry sources reported in early October 2019 that several companies approached ENH to evaluate the data and negotiated commercial terms for the Mazenga licence. ENH has to find a partner â which will become operator â by the end of the year. The licence is situated in southern Mozambique, about 250 km northeast of capital city of Maputo, in the Mozambique Basin.  ENH signed the Exploration and Production Concession Contract (EPCC) for the onshore licence on 17 December 2018. The company was officially awarded the contract in August 2018. As part of the contract, the Ministerio dos Recursos Minerais e Energia - MIREME - has granted to ENH a one-year prior the start of the exploration period to find an operating partner. The licence contains the Mazenga graben zone which is a frontier area. The source rocks are expected to be the Lower Cretaceous Lower Domo and Maputo formations. The reservoirs are expected in the Upper Cretaceous Domo sandstone, the Lower Grudja, the Early Paleocene Upper Grudja sands and potentially the Eocene Cheringoma shelf carbonates. The seals are expected to be the Domo Shale and the Late Cretaceous/Tertiary mudstones.  Interest in the licence is held solely by Empresa Nacional Hidrocarbonetos (ENH).
Mozambique, Mazenga