FLNG and Onshore LNG in Mozambique: Why a 50–50 Hybrid Strategy Would Have Been the Prudent Choice from Day One

Why Mozambique Should Have Followed the Guyana Playbook: FLNG First, Onshore Later

In the last decade, ExxonMobil’s strategy offshore Guyana has become a benchmark for rapid, de‑risked development: one FPSO per year, scaling from Liza Destiny (2019) to Liza Unity (2022), Prosperity (2023), and ONE GUYANA (2025).
This modular, disciplined approach pushed Guyana beyond 900,000 barrels/day in under five years.

But while this floating‑first strategy turned Guyana into a global deepwater success story, Mozambique took a different path — tying its massive Area 1 and area 4 gas discoveries to an onshore LNG complex in Afungi: remote, infrastructure‑poor, and ultimately disrupted by instability.

What if Mozambique had matched Guyana’s disciplined offshore model?

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