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strengthen Borouge’s offering of sustainable, as Structure A and Structure E, will have a believed to hold some 15 trillion cubic feet
innovative and differentiated products to meet combined weight of 85,000 tonnes. Together, (425bn cubic metres) of natural gas. BP joined
emerging demand. Polypropylene will be they will be able to handle around 760mn the project in 2016, and the two companies
used by customers and value chain partners cubic feet of gas, 42,000 barrels per day of made a final investment decision (FID) on
to manufacture recyclable packaging and condensate and 5,000 bpd of crude oil. first-phase production in late 2018.
to create pipes that are strong, durable and BNE The two companies have said they intend
lightweight, for the infrastructure sector. to use a floating production, storage and
Construction of the PP5 unit started in off-loading (FPSO) unit to extract gas from
December 2018 and has been successfully TERMINALS & SHIPPING the field. This vessel will process the gas to
completed during the global COVID-19 remove heavier hydrocarbon fractions before
pandemic. More than one hundred Borouge Eiffage finishes caissons sending remaining volumes to the FLNG unit
employees and four thousand contractors for liquefaction.
worked on the project. Construction was for GTA FLNG To support the LNG component of the
delivered safely and on time with more than project, BP and Kosmos have contracted
24 million safe man hours recorded. The Eiffage Genie Civil (France) has finished Bermuda-registered Golar LNG to convert the
commissioning of the unit started at the end building all 21 of the large caissons that will Gimi LNG tanker into an FLNG vessel with a
of 2021. be used to form a breakwater protecting the production capacity of 2.5mn tonnes per year
BOREALIS floating LNG (FLNG) vessel installed at the (tpy). As of last November, this FLNG unit
Greater Tortue/Ahmeyim (GTA) natural gas was reported to be 75% technically complete
field offshore Senegal and Mauritania. and slated for delivery in 2023.
PIPELINES The French engineering company said in NEWSBASE
a statement that it had constructed the 21
Libya’s gas to Italy resumed caissons in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, Sonatrach signs contracts
using more than 130,000 cubic metres of
through Green Stream cement from two of its own factories. To date, for Skikda LNG storage
it said, 16 of the units have already been taken
pipeline out to the field and installed at the future Algeria’s national oil company (NOC)
Sonatrach has signed a contract for the
site of the breakwater, which is about 10 km
Libya’s gas pumping to Italy was resumed distant from the shore. construction of a new storage tank at the
through the Green Stream pipeline after a More than 1,700 workers participated in Skikda LNG plant with two subsidiaries of
maintenance period that lasted for nearly two the construction of the caissons, which weigh China’s Sinopec.
weeks, according to a statement from Italy’s 16,000 tonnes each, Eiffage said. Each of the In a statement dated February 17,
energy group Eni. units measures 28 metres wide, 32 metres Sonatrach revealed that it had awarded
The resumption of gas flow came inside high and 55 metres long. the contract for the project to Sinopec
Mellita Oil and Gas Complex, Eni said, The French company is working together Luoyang Engineering Co. Ltd and Sinopec
explaining that the gas quantities will be with Saipem (Italy) to provide engineering, International Petroleum Services Corp.,
increasing gradually until they reach the procurement and construction (EPC) services both owned by the state-controlled Chinese
normal levels. related to the marine hub and terminal for company. The value of the deal, which will be
Eni said earlier this month that the the LNG component of the GTA project. The executed over a period of 40 months, comes to
Libyan gas flow would drop remarkably partners won the contract from BP, the UK- nearly DZD25bn ($178.31mn), it said.
due to maintenance work and expected the based operator of the offshore field, in 2019. Under the contract, the Sinopec
resumption of gas flow by February 19. Under that contract, once the caissons subsidiaries are slated to demolish two
The Italian company said in October last are installed, Saipem and Eiffage are due to existing storage tanks at Skikda LNG’s GL1K
year it is giving potential contractors more start building berthing facilities for the FLNG liquefaction complex and replace them with
time to bid on the construction of two new unit, as well as LNG tankers that will offload a new tank with a nominal storage capacity
fixed offshore platforms and related facilities production from the vessel. of 150,000 cubic metres. Additionally, they
opposite the Mellitah complex in western GTA is an offshore licence area that will supply and install equipment connecting
Libya through its partnership with the state- straddles the maritime border between the new storage tank to the loading system of
owned National Oil Corp. (NOC). Mauritania and Senegal. It was discovered Skikda LNG’s new jetty.
The new platforms, which will be known by US-based Kosmos Energy in 2015 and is The new jetty is being built to optimise

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