Sasol has issued a letter of intent for the engineering and construction of a U.S. $580 million, 540-mi, 26-in. pipeline that will move gas from Mozambique to South Africa.

The letter was issued to a contractor consortium of Grinaker-LTA, McConnell Dowell and CCIC for the line's engineering, design, procurement management, construction and commissioning.

Plans call for the line to start at the Temane gas field in Mozambique's Inhambane province, then run southwest and west to Secunda in South Africa's Mpumalanga province.