Militants have attacked Anadarko’s LNG project in Mozambique in what is the first attack on the oil and gas industry in the African country, Bloomberg reports , citing Portuguese news agency Lusa and unnamed sources. More than a dozen masked, armed men attacked a convoy near the project, which is still under construction, and injured four people. The attackers are suspected to be members of an Islamic militant group that has already killed some 100 people in the area near the border with Tanzania in the past 16 month since the insurgency began in northern Mozambique. The potential implications of the attack are grave as Mozambique is seen to be a hot spot for LNG in the future, with Anadarko’s project alone having a planned annual capacity of 13 million metric tons of liquefied gas. The company has budgeted around US$20 billion for the project. Last week, the Houston […]