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Eni preps for Coral South drilling
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ENI has begun installation work on the hull of the Coral South unit, to be moored o shore northern Mozambique. Progress was reported on the oating LNG (FLNG) project on July 20, with the Italian company predicting it would be more than 60% complete by the end of 2019.
Construction began in 2018. e hull should be launched in 2020, with production due to start in 2020.
Construction on the mooring turret began in March, it said, while construction of the hull’s 24 modules started in September 2018. Work on the topside, which is made up of 12 gas treat- ment and LNG modules, and the living quarters, began in November 2018.
Drilling on the six subsea wells for the project will commence in September. e wells will be 3,000 metres deep on average and will be carried out by the Saipem 12000 rig, with these to be completed by the end of 2020.
The Coral Sul unit will be able to process 3.4mn tonnes per year (tpy) when completed.
It will be 432 metres long and 66 metres wide, weighing around 220,000 tonnes. It will house up to 350 workers.
It will be moored in water depths of around 2,000 metres, with up to 20 mooring lines, weighing a combined 9,000 tonnes.
Eni is also training around 800 locals as part of the Coral South plan. ese workers will be employed during operations.
e Italian company said the discoveries it had made in the Rovuma Basin, in Area 4, held an estimated 2.4tn cm of gas in place, in the Coral, Mamba Complex and Agulha reservoirs.
Anadarko Petroleum and the partners on Area 1 announced the nal investment deci- sion (FID) on Mozambique LNG in June. is has capacity of 12.88mn tpy and is due to start in 2024. Eni and its partners on Area 4 are expected to approve the Rovuma LNG pro- ject this year, although there has been some talk of high prices for construction pushing back plans. is will have capacity of 15.2mn tpy and may start in 2024-25.™
Old Harbour FSRU commissioned
PERfoRmanCE
JAMAICA o cially commissioned a oating storage and regasi cation unit (FSRU) at Old Harbour, on July 19. New Fortress Energy pro- vided the FSRU, the Golar Freeze, with rst gas delivered in March, the company said in May. It predicted full ramp-up would come during the second quarter of the year.
“ e completion of the terminal will rmly establish the island as a premier LNG hub. It is the rst of its kind in the Caribbean and will supply the 190-MW Old Harbour power plant through natural gas pipelines,” said Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness in a speech at the commissioning.
e FSRU will play a part in shi ing Jamaica’s power generation to cleaner fuels, the premier said. e goal is to have renewables or clean fuels account for at least 50% of the country’s power. The completion of the Old Harbour project brings this gure to 44%.
“Over the past decade, LNG has been approx- imately 30% cheaper than diesel, and projections are that it will continue to be cheaper than the select fuels, and what I like about it is that it is more environmentally friendly and it burns signi cantly cleaner than other oil-based fuels,” Holness said. “We are demonstrating that we can
put in place the necessary investment, building infrastructure that both reduces the cost to con- sumers but also most importantly, reduces the cost to the environment and I think this is a very goodexampleofthat,itisawin-winforallofus.”
According to information from New Fortress, the Old Harbour facility can process 500,000 mmBtu per day. It supplies gas to the Old Har- bour power plant, operated by South Jamaica Power, under a long-term take or pay contract. New Fortress is also building a new 94-MW power plant and will supply gas to an alumina re nery, operated by Jamalco. e company said the JPC and Jamalco contracts covered around 16% of the terminal’s capacity, leaving space for additional deals with new customers.
The Golar Freeze was converted from an LNG carrier (LNGC) and has 125,000 cubic metres of storage – the joint smallest vessel in Golar’s eet. e contract for the vessel expires in 2034.
e Caribbean state has historically relied on petroleum products to generate power, but New Fortress has played a role in helping it move away from this practice. e US-listed company also operates an FSRU at Montego Bay, which started up in October 2016.™
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