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Mozambique: Eni says Coral Sul FLNG

installation proceeding on schedule

PROJECTS & THE Italian major Eni has said that work on the will occur within the second half of 2022,” they
COMPANIES Coral South LNG project offshore Mozambique told Noticias.
is proceeding on schedule. If Eni and its partners can start production at
When contacted by the Mozambican daily the Coral field this year as anticipated, they will
Noticias, sources inside Eni reported that the be the first group to launch upstream develop-
Coral South consortium’s contractors were mov- ment in the Rovuma basin. They will also be the
ing forward with the installation of the Coral first to operate a floating gas liquefaction facility
floating LNG (FLNG) platform at the Block 4 in an ultra-deepwater zone.
licence area. According to previous reports, the Coral
Installation work remains on schedule, said South LNG consortium is installing the Coral
the sources, who were not named. As of early Sul vessel at the operating site, which is located
February, they stated, the contractors were in approximately 2,000-metre-deep water. Its They will also
focusing on preparations for anchoring and contractor for mooring and hook-up of the
mooring of the FLNG vessel, which arrived in FLNG is TJS, a group formed by Technip Ener- be the first to
Mozambican waters in early January. gies (France), JGC (Japan) and Samsung (South
Once the vessel has been installed in its final Korea). operate a floating
position and connected to the production infra- The vessel is about 432 metres long and 66
structure that will be used to extract natural gas metres wide. It weighs around 220,000 tonnes gas liquefaction
from the Coral section of Block 4, commission- and can accommodate as many as 350 people. facility in an
ing operations will begin. When complete, it will be able to turn out around
This phase of work will involve the testing 3.4mn tonnes per year (tpy) of LNG from its sin- ultra-deepwater
of all equipment before the start of commer- gle production train. BP (UK) has agreed to pur-
cial production, in line with Mozambican chase all of its output within the framework of a zone.
regulations governing the licensing of oil and long-term agreement.
gas operators and infrastructure, the sources Eni discovered the Coral field at Area 4
noted. in 2012 and made an FID in favour of going
They went on to describe the arrival of the forward with the $10bn Coral South LNG pro-
Coral Sul FLNG vessel in Mozambique’s offshore ject in 2017. The shareholders in the project
zone as a demonstration of the capacity of Eni are Mozambique Rovuma Venture (MRV),
and its partners to carry out their work safely and a joint venture owned by Eni (the operator),
on time. ExxonMobil (US) and China National Petro-
The Coral South LNG project “is moving as leum Corp. (CNPC); Galp (Portugal); KOGAS
planned towards its operational phase, and we (South Korea), and ENH, Mozambique’s
are confident that the first production of LNG national oil company.™

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