By Emmanuel Tumanjong

Special to Dow Jones Newswires

Italian energy firm Eni SpA said it plans to produce and export 4.5 billion tons of liquefied natural gas from the Republic of Congo by 2025.

"We took stock of a gas export project for which we had signed an agreement. It is a two-phase project, the first of which will begin in the fourth quarter of 2023. The second will extend to 2025 and will give Congo the opportunity to export up to 4.5 billion cubic meters of gas," Chief Executive Claudio Descalzi said Monday, after meeting with Congo Republic President Denis Sassou Nguesso.

Eni and the government of the Central African nation have jointly constructed a power plant in Pointe-Noire that produces electricity from gas.

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August 09, 2022 11:29 ET (15:29 GMT)

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