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Havfram to provide subsea mooring

system for Grand Tortue/Ahmeyim FPSO

PROJECTS & TECHNIP Energies (France) has awarded a con- Odd Strømsnes, the CEO of Havfram,
COMPANIES tract to Havfram (Norway) for pre-installation described the contract as “another significant
and hook-up services for the subsea mooring mooring project award in what is a core business
system that will be used to station a floating pro- line for Havfram.” He added: “This award further
duction, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessel enhances our already strong track record in com-
at the Grand Tortue/Ahmeyim (GTA) block off- plex mooring projects and we are proud to have
shore Mauritania and Senegal. been chosen by Technip Energies for their award
In a statement, Havfram explained that it of such a significant project.”
had agreed to provide project management GTA is an ultra-deepwater block that strad-
services and to engineer, transport and install dles the maritime border between Mauritania
the driven piles and mooring lines of the sys- and Senegal. It was discovered by US-based
tem prior to the arrival of the FPSO. Once the Kosmos Energy in 2015 and is believed to hold
FPSO is in place, the company will return to some 15 trillion cubic feet (425bn cubic metres)
GTA to connect the pre-installed mooring sys- of natural gas. BP joined the project in 2016, and
tem to the vessel. the two companies made a final investment deci-
The Norwegian company did not divulge sion (FID) in late 2018. They aim to begin com-
the value of the contract with Technip Ener- mercial development in 2023.
gies, which is the engineering, procurement, The partners will use gas from the licence
construction, installation and commission- area to support an LNG project. To this end, they
ing (EPCIC) contractor for BP, the operator of have contracted Bermuda-registered Golar LNG
GTA. It did report that its project management to convert the Gimi LNG tanker into a floating
and engineering team in Aberdeen had already LNG (FLNG) plant with a production capacity
begun work on the project. of 2.5mn tonnes per year (tpy).™

DPR head unveils micro-LNG initiative

INVESTMENT NIGERIA’S government is sponsoring plans where it can be transported to any [location].
for the establishment of hundreds of small- With that strategy, energy security for this
scale LNG distribution centres across the country [can be] achieved through the virtual
country. pipelines,” he said, according to a statement pub-
According to Sarki Auwalu, the director of lished by DPR.
the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Auwalu did not comment on the cost of the
Abuja wants to establish a total of 774 such cen- micro-LNG initiative or say how much gas the
tres, one for each of Nigeria’s local government trucks might be able to deliver to consumers.
areas. “DPR has developed a project we call Pro- Nor did he specify when gas might begin arriv-
ject 774. The aim of this project is to ensure that ing at the local distribution centres within the
each and every [administrative division has] framework of this programme.
a gas [regasification] and distribution centre However, he did state that the project would
with a micro-distribution centre,” he said on the support the Nigerian government’s efforts to
sidelines of the Nigeria International Petroleum promote the domestic utilisation, consumption
Summit (NIPS) last week. and commercialisation of natural and associated
Trucks will be used to transport LNG to the gas. Abuja has dubbed the 2021-2030 period the
distribution centres and also regasify it, Auwalu “decade of gas,” and the country is now work-
added. As such, they will be able to serve as vir- ing to increase its reserves, develop new fields,
tual pipelines, bringing natural gas to areas of expand infrastructure and reduce flaring, he
the country that are not yet connected to any stated.
transportation or distribution pipelines, he Success on this front is expected to create
commented. new jobs while also contributing to economic
“We have capabilities to have mini-LNG growth, he added.™

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