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Output up
In related news, Obiang Lima told reporters that his country was on track to increase crude oil output by more than 16% this year.
The African state currently produces around 120,000 bpd of oil, with Zafiro accounting for about three-quarters of the total. According to
the minister, overall yields are set to expand by 20,000 bpd in 2020. This would represent a rise of 16.67%.
“We expect an increase this year of around 20,000 bpd additional because of the new dis- coveries,” Reuters quoted him as saying. He did not elaborate..commented.
Eni says hull of Coral South FLNG vessel is complete
The hull of the Coral Sul South FPSO was launched on January 14 (Photo: Eni)
MOZAMBIQUE
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 off- shore 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.
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