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Petrolis completes mooring

procedures for Coral Sul FLNG

AFRICA SWISS firm Petrolis reported on March 7 that specialises in diving, rigging and rope access
it had wrapped up mooring procedures for the operations related to offshore energy projects.
Coral Sul floating LNG (FLNG) vessel at the Its contributions will allow the Coral Sul FLNG
Coral natural gas field offshore Mozambique. to start supporting upstream production at
In a statement, Petrolis said it had completed the Coral field in the second half of this year.
the mooring portion of its subcontract with TJS, The vessel will eventually process gas from six
a joint venture led by Technip Energies (France) ultra-deepwater production wells at the site.
that is serving as the main engineering, procure- Coral is the first development target at Area
ment, construction, installation and commis- 4, a block in the Rovuma basin offshore Mozam-
sioning (EPCIC) contractor for the installation bique. Eni discovered the field at Area 4 in 2012
of the FLNG. and made an FID in favour of going forward with
It explained that it had finished the process the $10bn Coral South LNG project in 2017. The
of tensioning the vessel’s 20 mooring lines in shareholders in the project are Mozambique
2,000-metre-deep water on March 4. Rovuma Venture (MRV), a joint venture owned
The FLNG was built for the Coral South LNG by Eni (the operator), ExxonMobil (US) and
consortium, which is being led by Eni (Italy). The China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC); Galp
Italian major and its partners hold the licence for (Portugal); KOGAS (South Korea) and ENH,
Area 4, the offshore block that includes the Coral Mozambique’s national oil company (NOC).
field, and hope to bring it on stream in the sec- If Eni and its partners can start production
ond half of this year after mooring, hook-up and at the Coral field before the end of the year as
commissioning activities are finished. anticipated, they will be the first group to launch
According to the statement, Petrolis used upstream development in the Rovuma basin.
a crew of 44 rope access and rigging special- They will also be the first to operate an FLNG
ists from its sister company Naurex to work on vessel in an ultra-deepwater zone.
the Coral Sul during mooring and installation The Coral Sul FLNG unit is about 432 metres
works. long and 66 metres wide. It weighs around
Now that this part of the contract has been 220,000 tonnes and can accommodate as many
completed, the company can now turn its focus as 350 people.
to hook-up procedures. It will be providing assis- When complete, it will be able to turn out
tance with subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines around 3.4mn tonnes per year (tpy) of LNG
(SURF) systems and pre-commissioning activi- from its single production train. BP (UK) has
ties until June 2022. agreed to purchase all of its output within the
Petrolis, which is affiliated with Capefront, framework of a long-term agreement.™

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