The afternoon of May 18, the Chinese President xi jinping, mozambique President felipe side, of the new west, under the witness of Chinese oil group chairman wang yilin and mozambique's state oil company President omar, signed in Beijing at the close of the China national petroleum corporation and mozambique's state oil company cooperation framework agreement.

The cooperation agreement signed, will be on the basis of the original two companies cooperation, further promoting pragmatic cooperation in the field of oil and gas, expand to other areas of cooperation, in the "area" strategy, promote the construction of maritime silk road, to achieve mutually beneficial win-win and common development, contributing to the new model become china-africa cooperation.

According to the agreement, the two sides will comprehensively promote the oil and gas exploration and development, production and cooperation in the field of natural gas processing and sales. Petrochina will actively participate in domestic oil and gas exploration and development and production of oil and gas projects, such as service cooperation, and actively promote in mozambique gas field using existing talent training institution and China's oil facilities, technical and management personnel for training of mozambique oil.

It is understood that China's oil in 2013 began to participate in mozambique Marine natural gas exploration and development and production, including four zone project is China's oil in East Africa first super large deep natural gas and LNG project, is also the Chinese company in mozambique's largest single project. At the same time, China's oil in geophysical exploration, pipeline construction, project contracting, equipment supply and other oilfield services and engineering construction field has carried out cooperation with mozambique.

Mozambique's national oil company is its unique national oil company, was founded in 1981, the main oil and gas in the field of research, exploration, production, refining, transportation, storage, and petrochemical products sales, with mozambique oil companies, its natural gas pipeline company, mozambique's national oil company, delgado Angle port company and other companies.

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Mozambique rich mineral resources, including sea natural gas reserves in the world. Important geographical location, is an important port in southeast Africa and regional transport corridor. The rapid development of economy in recent years, mozambique, Africa's economic development. Such as gas and coal, the heavy sand mineral resources development, mozambique has become a new hot spot of international investment. The current Chinese company representative office in mozambique or registered nearly 80 Chinese companies, involving the comprehensive investment, project contracting, mineral resources, energy and other fields.