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Baker Hughes signs service

contract for Coral Sul FLNG

offshore Mozambique

PROJECTS BAKER Hughes (US) has agreed to provide Rod Christie, Baker Hughes’ executive vice
maintenance and monitoring services for tur- president for turbomachinery and process solu-
bomachinery operations on the Coral Sul float- tions, commented: “This agreement shows how
ing LNG (FLNG) vessel, which is being used to we embed our decades of LNG experience and
execute the Coral South LNG project offshore constant collaboration with our customers to
Mozambique. develop solutions to meet their specific needs
In a statement dated September 30, Baker and outcomes. Demand for LNG is on the rise,
Hughes said it had signed a service contract that illustrating how natural gas is playing a founda-
fixed various metrics, including the “reliability tional role in supporting the many types of tran-
of compressors and efficiency and low emissions sitions along the paths to net-zero emissions.”
of gas turbines,” by which it would check the Eni (Italy) and its partners in the Coral South
performance of the FLNG’s rotating equipment. LNG consortium are using the Coral Sul FLNG
The contract also calls for the US-based oilfield to liquefy gas in a section of a block known
services provider (OSP) to provide resident engi- as Area 4, offshore Mozambique. The vessel
neers, supervisors, spare parts and services to has a single production train and is currently
support maintenance operations, the statement anchored in 2,000-metre-deep water. It has a
noted. production capacity of 3.4mn tonnes per year
Baker Hughes did not reveal the value of the (tpy) and will be used to process 450bn cubic
deal. However, it did say that the contract had metres of gas from the Coral reservoir within
a term of eight years and that implementation Area 4.
would begin in late 2022. It is the first floating gas liquefaction plant
It went on to say that the company was ever to be deployed at a deepwater field off the
committed to making use of local resources coast of Africa.
in Mozambique in order to help develop local BP (UK) has signed an agreement making
capacity and talent. However, it did not reveal it the sole off-taker of LNG from the Coral Sul
whether it had identified any specific local part- FLNG vessel. The company was supposed to take
ners yet. delivery of its first cargo in August, but the ship-
The statement also noted that the new ser- ment had to be rescheduled.
vice contract called for Baker Hughes to provide Eni discovered the Coral field at Area 4 in
monitoring and diagnostics services. These will 2012 and made an FID in favour of going for-
involve the OSP’s iCenter capabilities, which ward with the $10bn Coral South LNG project
include Carbon Optimizer and a package of in 2017. The other shareholders in the project
other digital services that are based on System are Mozambique Rovuma Venture (MRV), a
1, a technology developed by Bently Nevada, it joint venture owned by Eni, ExxonMobil (US)
said. The package comprises cyber asset man- and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC);
agement, data services and health and mainte- Galp (Portugal); KOGAS (South Korea), and
nance monitoring, it explained. ENH, the national oil company (NOC) of
It further stated that the new contract built Mozambique.
upon Baker Hughes’ existing contract for provi- Strong European demand has already led Eni
sion of services related to the Coral Sul FLNG’s to expand the scope of the Coral South LNG pro-
power and gas refrigeration process. This con- ject. The Italian major said recently that it was
tract covers four turbo-generation units, as well planning to add a second floating LNG facility
as four turbo-compression trains with aerode- so that it could expand production within less
rivative and centrifugal compressor technology, than four years.™
it said.

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