Anadarko Petroleum’s $25 billion Mozambique liquefied natural gas project took a significant step forward this week after the operator finalised a contract with the CCS joint venture to build two initial trains with a total capacity of 12.88 million tonnes per annum.

The CCS joint venture of CB&I (now McDermott International), Chiyoda and Saipem was originally selected to handle the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the LNG scheme in May 2015.