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She added: “It is also among South Africa’s top “very important venture,” she said.
five trading partners in Africa. Our political and DBSA is not the only South African institu-
economic relations have remained strong and tion involved in Mozambique, she added. She
vibrant over the years.” noted that two private South African banks,
She also noted that Mozambique had high Standard Merchant Bank and Rand Merchant
hopes for the development of its offshore gas Bank, had joined the group of banks that had
reserves. “As we all know, Mozambique’s new lent nearly $15bn to Mozambique LNG, the
growth opportunity is anchored on the large Total-led consortium that will use gas from the
natural gas reserves and the associated liquefied offshore Area 1 as feedstock for its LNG plant.
natural gas [LNG] project in the Cabo Delgado Gina went on to say that South Africa was
province,” she said. making co-operation with other African states a
South Africa aims to support these gas pro- priority in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19)
jects by helping Mozambique to expand its pandemic. “This is one area that we’ve all seen
infrastructure network, Gina said. To date, she the need to make sure that we produce locally
stated, the Development Bank of South Africa [and supply] our mega-projects locally so that
(DBSA) has committed to providing $120mn we don’t depend on other countries to make sure
in funding for Mozambican infrastructure ini- that we survive as countries. I believe as African
tiatives. Public and private-sector firms from countries this is one opportunity we can grab
South Africa are playing an active role in this with both hands,” she commented. ™

PROJECTS & COMPANIES
Siemens to provide cryogenic BOG

compression train for NLNG

NIGERIA THE Nigeria LNG (NLNG) consortium has emissions in a highly sustainable manner,” said
arranged to acquire a cryogenic boil-off gas Arja Talakar, Siemens Energy’s senior vice-pres-
(BOG) compression train from Germany’s Sie- ident for industrial applications products.
mens. The German conglomerate confirmed Equity in the NLNG consortium is split
the contract award last week, noting in a state- between NNPC (49%), Royal Dutch Shell (UK/
ment that the BOG compression train would be Netherlands, 25.6%), Total (France, 15%) and
installed at NLNG’s gas liquefaction plant on Eni (Italy, 10.4%). The consortium has been
Bonny Island. The unit includes two centrifugal producing LNG since 1999 and already has six
compressors from Siemens Energy, and it will production trains in place at its gas liquefaction
be driven by a high-efficiency electric motor, the plant. Together, these trains have a capacity of
statement said. 22.5mn tonnes per year (tpy).
Siemens intends to manufacture, test and Earlier this year, NLNG took a final invest-
package the BOG compression train at one of ment decision (FID) on the construction of
its facilities in Duisburg, Germany. It is slated to another production train. The new unit, which
deliver the unit to the LNG plant in the fourth will be known as Train 7, will push total out-
quarter of next year. put up by 7.2mn tpy to 30mn tpy, with the new
As of press time, Siemens had not revealed production facility contributing 4.2mn tpy and
the value of the contract. It did state, though, the debottlenecking of existing trains adding
that it had been co-operating with NLNG since another 3.4mn tpy. ™
1999, when the consortium first commissioned
its plant.
The German company also highlighted its
own leading role in boil-off gas compression
for LNG production, noting that its fleet of cry-
ogenic BPG compressors had already been in
service for a total of 4.2mn hours.
“NLNG’s selection of our cryogenic BOG
compression technology is a testament not only
to the reliability and performance of our existing
equipment at the plant, but also to our focused
service and ability to meet local content require-
ments through our in-country presence. The
new BOG compression train will contribute to
NLNG’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas [GHG] Nigeria LNG has been in operation since 1999 (Image: KBR)

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