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Renergen signs two contracts for work on Virginia Gas Project
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sOuTH africa’s Renergen is moving forward with work on the Virginia Gas Project, which will be the country’s first commercial LNG plant, as well as the first liquid helium plant in africa.
Last week, the company awarded two major contracts for work on the facility.
One of the contracts went to another south african firm – EPCM Bonisana, which will install a pipeline and manage the interface between the pipe and other parts of the facility. The other contract went to Western shell Cryo- genic Equipment (WsCE), a Chinese firm, and covers the delivery of technology and equipment for the plant.
Renergen said in a statement that it had cho- sen to work with WsCE because the Chinese company had extensive experience in the con- struction of small-scale LNG plants.
The contractor built its first facility of this type in 2004 and was responsible for constructing the smallest LNG plant in the world in 2007.
“We look forward to seeing Renergen and
WsCE making liquid natural gas and liquid helium in south africa a reality,” the statement said.
The south african company did not reveal the value of the contracts or say when WsCE and EPCM Bonisana would begin work. It did say, though, that the Virginia Gas Project was due to begin regular commercial operations in the first half of 2021.
The facility will eventually be able to turn out 645.3 tonnes per day of LNG and 350 kg per day of liquid helium, it said.
according to the statement, Renergen will build the plant according to a modular plan, and each section will be the size of a standard ship- ping container. This will make the modules eas- ier to transport and install, it commented.
The company also noted that the plant’s energy consumption levels would be relatively low. This is because the design calls for using a mixed refrigeration cycle to liquefy the gases, it explained.™
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