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Eni says hull of Coral South FLNG vessel is complete
PROJECTS & COMPANIES
ITALY’S Eni reported on January 14 that it had marked the completion of the hull of a floating LNG (FLNG) vessel that will be used for the Coral South LNG project in Mozambique.
In a statement, the company said it had cel- ebrated the launch of the hull – which is 432 metres long and 66 metres wide and weighs in at around 140,000 tonnes – by a shipyard owned by Samsung Heavy Industries in Geoje, South Korea. The launch served to highlight the fact that work on the FLNG has been proceeding on schedule, it added. It explained that the vessel was already 60% complete and would be ready in time for production to begin as planned in 2022.
Eventually, the Italian company said, the hull will be fitted with an eight-storey accommoda- tion unit capable of housing up to 350 people. This module has already been finished and is ready to be integrated with the hull, it said.
Meanwhile, it stated, SHI’s Geoje shipyard is engaged in fabrication activities for the FLNG’s
12 gas treatment and liquefaction modules. All of the key pieces of equipment needed to finish these modules are ready for integration into the hull, and the first deck stacking has been exe- cuted, it said.
Eni and its partners have said they intend to use the FLNG to process gas extracted from the Coral South licence area, which lies offshore Mozambique in the Indian Ocean. The vessel will be able to turn out 3.4mn tonnes per year (tpy) of LNG, and the partners will use 20 mooring lines weighing 9,000 tonnes altogether to anchor it in 2,000-metre-deep water at a site almost 50km from the coast.
The Coral South FLNG will be the world’s first ultra-deepwater gas liquefaction facility.
Eni was the first international oil company (IOC) to sign on to a major LNG scheme in Mozambique. In 2017, it made an FID in favour of going forward with the $10bn Coral South LNG project.™
AMERICAS
Eagle LNG awards small-scale contract
PROJECTS & COMPANIES
US-BASED Eagle LNG Partners has awarded an engineering, procurement, fabrication and con- struction (EPFC) contract for a small-scale LNG project that will target buyers in the Caribbean Sea region.
In a statement dated January 13, Eagle LNG Partners said that the contract had gone to NAS- DAQ-listed Matrix Service Inc., a subsidiary of Matrix Service Co. It put the value of the deal at $500mn and said that the contractor would be responsible for building an LNG export complex in Jacksonville, Florida.
The project will make use of Integrated Pre- cooled Single Mixed Refrigerant (IPSMR) pro- cess technology and liquefaction equipment from Chart Industries, it added. Chart Indus- tries is a provider of modular and standard gas liquefaction plants and associated process technologies.
When finished, the facility will include a gas liquefaction plant capable of turning out around 1mn tonnes per year (tpy) of LNG. It will also have storage facilities capable of holding large volumes of LNG and loading facilities capable of handling marine and truck shipments.
Eagle LNG Partners has said it intends to sell some of its production to buyers in Carib- bean states. In its statement, it explained that the
Jacksonville facility would export LNG to these markets by sea in ISO-compliant containers.
Jacksonville LNG will be able to deliver LNG at competitive prices since it is closer to Car- ibbean markets than other suppliers, it noted. Making this alternative fuel available will help these countries reduce their long-standing dependence on imported petroleum products for power generation, it added.
Dick Brown, the CEO of Eagle LNG Partners, said he was pleased to see the project moving forward. “Eagle LNG is experiencing a growing demand for LNG to serve small-scale export markets, while domestic demand for fuel-grade LNG continues to increase,” he said. “We con- tinue to build out LNG infrastructure across the country to meet these needs. Partnering with Matrix Service and Chart Industries provides service from concept through completion.”
The complex will also make some of its LNG production available as marine fuel. Together with Eagle LNG Partners’ other facilities in Maxville and Talleyrand, it will be able to offer the lowest-cost LNG bunkering services in the south-eastern US, the statement said.
The company has already begun shipping LNG to Caribbean buyers via the Maxville LNG and Talleyrand LNG facilities, it added.™
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