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SNH: Cameroon LNG reached

five new countries in 2020

PERFORMANCE CAMEROON’S only LNG plant succeeded in to be converted to a floating LNG (FLNG) unit. It
expanding its customer base last year, according is anchored near the Cameroonian port of Kribi
to Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH), and has been working since May 2018.
the national oil company (NOC). The FLNG vessel liquefies gas from the San-
SNH reported last week that the plant, aga field, which is being developed by Perenco
which consists of the Hilli Episeyo floating LNG (UK/France) and SNH. The partners pipe gas
(FLNG) unit, had added several new countries from the field to an onshore treatment facility for
to its list of destinations. It explained that five processing before delivering it to the FLNG unit.
countries had received their first-ever shipments The Hilli Episeyo is capable of turning out
of Cameroonian LNG in 2020 – namely Kuwait, 1.2mn tonnes per year from one of its two pro-
Pakistan, South Korea, Thailand and Turkey. duction trains. According to previous reports,
The NOC did not say exactly how many Golar LNG has held talks with Perenco and SNH
cargoes each of these five states had received, on the possibility of activating the Hilli Episeyo’s
though it did note that the shipments to Kuwait, second production train, a move that would dou-
South Korea and Turkey had been carried out ble the FLNG’s capacity to 2.4mn tpy.
in the first quarter of last year. It also stated that The vessel began its life as one of Golar LNG’s
the Hilli Epeseyo FLNG vessel had loaded a 125,000-cubic metre tankers. It was converted
total of 16 cargoes with a combined volume of to an FLNG unit at the Keppel shipyards in Sin-
14.198 trillion Btu between January 1, 2020, and gapore at a cost of $1.2bn and is now operating
December 18, 2020. under a tolling agreement. It generates about
Prior to last year, most of the LNG exported $40mn per quarter in tolling revenues, with
from Cameroon went to China, India and Golar LNG receiving 50% of the total and its
Taiwan. NASDAQ-listed affiliate Golar LNG Partners
The Hilli Episeyo, owned by Bermuda-regis- getting the other 50%, in line with the terms of a
tered Golar LNG, is the first vessel in the world drop-down deal finalised in 2018.™

Total downplays possibility of

Mozambique LNG shift to Mayotte

PROJECTS & FRANCE’S Total has downplayed reports that
COMPANIES it is scouting out new logistical solutions for
Mozambique LNG.
Total, its partners and its contractors have
been using Pemba, the capital of Mozambique’s
northern Cabo Delgado Province, as their base
for work on the $23bn project. But last week,
Carta de Moçambique, an independent Mozam-
bican newspaper, said that the Mozambique
LNG consortium hoped to shift to a second base
of operations on Mayotte, a French overseas
department in the Indian Ocean.
According to the newspaper, Total executives
have already begun negotiations with the island’s it worked on Mozambique LNG. Pemba’s port
administration on the establishment of this base, facilities will continue to handle operations
along with equipment storage and other issues. related to the construction of Mozambique
The French major will use the new facility for off- LNG’s onshore complex on the Afungi Pen-
shore operations, it said. insula, as well as work at Area 1, the offshore
The French major responded by dismissing block that will provide natural gas for the
the Carta de Moçambique report and declaring liquefaction plant within the complex, it said
that it intended to continue relying on Pemba as in a statement sent to UK-based Agência de

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