In Angola, majors ENI, BP, Chevron, Total and the national state-owned company Sonangol have agreed to form a consortium to build and operate a new natural gas processing plant in Soyo, a town in the northern province of Zaire, the country’s main oil-producing area. The project, called the « New Gas Consortium » - with a capacity of 400 million cubic feet per day - is expected to start up at the end of 2020 and should take two years to complete.