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Petrolis completes mooring

procedures for Coral Sul FLNG

PROJECTS & PETROLIS (Switzerland) reported on March 7 operations related to offshore energy projects.
COMPANIES that it had wrapped up mooring procedures for Its contributions will allow the Coral Sul FLNG
the Coral Sul floating LNG (FLNG) vessel at the to start supporting upstream production at
Coral natural gas field offshore Mozambique. the Coral field in the second half of this year.
In a statement, Petrolis said it had completed The vessel will eventually process gas from six
the mooring portion of its subcontract with TJS, ultra-deepwater production wells at the site.
a joint venture led by Technip Energies (France) Coral is the first development target at
that is serving as the main engineering, procure- Area 4, a block in the Rovuma Basin offshore
ment, construction, installation and commis- Mozambique. Eni discovered the field at Area
sioning (EPCIC) contractor for the installation 4 in 2012 and made an FID in favour of going Coral is the first
of the FLNG. It explained that it had finished forward with the $10bn Coral South LNG pro-
the process of tensioning the vessel’s 20 mooring ject in 2017. The shareholders in the project are development
lines in 2,000-metre-deep water on March 4. Mozambique Rovuma Venture (MRV), a joint
The FLNG was built for the Coral South LNG venture owned by Eni (the operator), Exxon- target at Area
consortium, which is being led by Eni (Italy). The Mobil (US) and China National Petroleum
Italian major and its partners hold the licence for Corp. (CNPC); Galp (Portugal); KOGAS (South 4, a block in
Area 4, the offshore block that includes the Coral Korea) and ENH, Mozambique’s national oil the Rovuma
field, and hope to bring it on stream in the sec- company (NOC).
ond half of this year after mooring, hook-up and If Eni and its partners can start production basin offshore
commissioning activities are finished. at the Coral field before the end of the year as
According to the statement, Petrolis used anticipated, they will be the first group to launch Mozambique.
a crew of 44 rope access and rigging special- upstream development in the Rovuma Basin.
ists from its sister company Naurex to work on They will also be the first to operate an FLNG
the Coral Sul during mooring and installation vessel in an ultra-deepwater zone.
works. Now that this part of the contract has The Coral Sul FLNG unit is about 432 metres
been completed, the company can now turn its long and 66 metres wide. It weighs around
focus to hook-up procedures. It will be provid- 220,000 tonnes and can accommodate as many
ing assistance with subsea umbilicals, risers and as 350 people. When complete, it will be able to
flowlines (SURF) systems and pre-commission- turn out around 3.4mn tonnes per year (tpy) of
ing activities until June 2022. LNG from its single production train. BP (UK)
Petrolis, which is affiliated with Capefront, has agreed to purchase all of its output within the
specialises in diving, rigging and rope access framework of a long-term agreement.™

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