08:30 Opening remarks from the Chair

Antonio Manhiça
Chief Executive Officer
Empresa Moçambicana de Exploração Mineira SA

Supply meeting demand

08:40 Development in Coal Exploration

• CBM core drilling
• Wire line logging
• Directional drilling
• Source to solution

Ajit Singh
Associate Vice President
Asian Oilfield Services Ltd

09:10 Sustaining India’s steel sector growth

• Projections of future growth for India’s steel sector: What are Indian steel producers looking for?
• What are the key challenges to be overcome in order for India to meet ambitious steel production targets

Partha Sengupta
Vice President: Raw Materials
Tata Steel

09:40 Panel discussion: Coal at the heart of Mozambique’s energy – the outlook for Mozambique’s power generation

• Why coal is such an attractive source for Mozambique
• How is Mozambique increasing their generation capacity?
• The impact of coal developments in Mozambique on electricity supply and demand in SADC
• How much scope remains for developing and planning new projects
• Linking electricity demand and coal supply with coal demand: implications on coal requirements – volumes, qualities and ideal inventory
• How would a significant increase in Mozambique’s power generation alter the SADC energy mix?

Panelists:

10:40 Other uses of coal: Boabab’s Tete project closes on 500Mt iron ore to underpin large scale pig iron production

• Update of pre-feasibility : from exploration to development – exploiting Tete’s unique confluence of steel making resources
• Lessons learned with scoping study: economics for a mine mouth smelting operations to produce a higher value, higher demand, pig iron product for distribution and export at first quartile cost of production
• Accessing and using the current infrastructure - overcoming challenges
• Future downstream steel processing: opportunities and challenges

Ben James
Managing Director
Baobab Resources plc

11:10 Coal-to-Liquid (CTL): Adding value to Mozambique thermal coal

• Enhance coal development: using low rank coal to supply fuel requirements
• Domestic beneficiation of the ‘black gold’
• Coal-to-liquid – how does the technology work?
• What is the capital required to developing and operating a CTL project
• Prospects of introducing new technologies into Mozambican coal operations
• Providing a clean energy supply

Transport Network: Innovation in coal transportation

11:40 Keynote Address: Adapting Mozambique’s coal infrastructure – the developments of an integrated transport infrastructure network

• Latest developments in the Tete province: Pit to port
• Final financing arrangement decisions
• The role of the newly elected transport regulator – how will this framework develop the rail and port capacity and develop free access in the future?
• Increasing the reach of the coal transport chain
• Opportunities: exploring the designed integrated infrastructure transport system

Hon Paulo Zucula
Minister
Ministry of Transport and Communications

12:10 The Integrated Transport Development (ITD)

• Developing new routes: latest port and rail options
• Capacity – an opportunity to access up to 10 million tons a year of rail and port capacity on a proposed greenfield rail and port project
• ITD project capacity - could be the lowest cost rail transport option exporting coal from Tete province owning to its shortest rail distance to port and new modern infrastructure
• RTCM - the feasibility of the integrated transport corridor

RTCM team leader
Rio Tinto

Port and terminal infrastructure

13:50 Developing Mozambique’s shipping facilities

• As Mozambique coal export infrastructure grows, what are the key logistical challenges with coal loading in Mozambique’s ports?
• Adapting technologies to meet challenges
• Possibilities within off-shore activities – Transhipping and loading

14:20 New Beira Terminal is open – The importance to Mozambique

• Upgrade and expansion of the terminal
• Beira’s position and strategies to handle coal export demands
• Current terminal facilities and upgrading to date: challenges and opportunities

Captain TV Nargundkar
Head of International Business Development
ESSAR Ports

14:50 Linking production to port developments: Nacala port upgrade

• Capacity and expansion plans - 2017
• Current terminal facilities and upgrading and expansion to date: challenges and opportunities
• Financing agreements that suite all parties?
• Capacity and handling at the port: challenges and opportunities
• Customs handling
• Lessons learned from the project – challenges, successes and the next 12 months

Vanderlei Marques
GM: Logistics Africa
Vale Mozambique Lda

Rail development

15:50 Sena line rehabilitation – Adapting railway networks to meet demand

• Upgrading the Sena line – impact of the expansion on coal export
• Will the rail line be ready on time to meet estimated supply
• Capital raising strategies for the development and expansion upgrade
• Capacity – improving efficiencies
• Creating new rail networks for new projects to meet growing demand

Rosario Mualela
President and Chariman
CFM

Finance and investment

16:20 Strategies for investing in Mozambique’s coal

• Potential for foreign investors within Mozambique’s coal industry
• What are the key legal and regulatory considerations for foreign investors
• Strategies for mitigating risk

Louren Sambo
Director General
Centro de promacao de Investimentos (CPI)

16:50 Raising finance for coal projects in Mozambique

• Availability of finance and sourcing new partners
• Financing options
• Due diligence requirements

Stephan Morais
Board Member & Deputy Chief Executive
Banco Nacional de Investimento

17:20 Closing remaks by chair

17:30 End of day two and conference