Via Oil and Glory, a report that U.S. and Italian companies say they have found the natural gas equivalent of more than 4 billion barrels of oil offshore from Mozambique.  As the article notes:

“…The news is larger than Mozambique, as we see again that long stretches of the African continent from north to south on both coasts appear to be swimming in oil and natural gas. The geologic structures are so rich that drillers have sought and found analogues across the Atlantic in French Guiana.

Until this month, Mozambique attracted publicity for an outbreak of rhinoceros poaching (South African counter-poaching squad on the Mozambique border pictured above), but not much for oil or gas. Now Italy’s Eni says it’s found the gas equivalent of 2.5 billion barrels of oil in a field called Mamba (a 1-billion-barrel field is regarded as a supergiant) off of Mozambique’s coast. Earlier this month, Houston-based Anadarko announced a discovery of more than the gas equivalent of 1.5 billion barrels of oil.

In a morning note to clients, Bernstein Research said the Anadarko find could be triple the announced figure, which if true would make the Mozambique finds the natural gas equivalent of 5 billion barrels of oil. Brazil’s Petrobras has begun drilling offshore in neighboring Tanzania, too.

The idea is to ship all this fuel in the form of liquefied natural gas to Asia. It is part of what the International Energy Agency calls the “Golden Age of Gas…”