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Expro to build onshore
pre-treatment facility
for LNG onshore ROC
ROC HOUSTON-BASED Expro Group Holdings facilities in West Africa and other parts of the
reported on January 25 that it had signed a long- word. It did not list any examples.
term production solutions contract with Eni Colin Mackenzie, Expro’s regional vice
Congo, a subsidiary of Italy’s Eni, in relation to president for Europe and sub-Saharan Africa,
the planned construction of a pre-treatment expressed satisfaction with the deal.
plant for LNG in the Republic of Congo (ROC). “We are delighted to be able to extend our
In a statement, Expro explained that it had long-standing partnership with Eni and our
agreed to design, construct, operate and main- activity in West Africa through securing this
tain the onshore pre-treatment facility (OPT) highly prestigious contract,” he said. “Our
for Eni Congo in its capacity as operator of the expertise in designing, engineering, delivering,
Marine XII offshore block. It did not reveal the building, operating and maintaining modular
exact value of the deal but said it expected to earn production plants on a fast-track basis is a rec-
more than $300mn over the 10-year term of the ognised market differentiator and will further
contract. strengthen our presence in the region.
The company will lease the facility while act- Expro’s experience and capabilities in
ing as its operator, Expro noted. empowering operators to quickly access reserves
The OPT will be built at a site near the Litch- can play a critical role in supporting Africa’s sig-
endjili gas plant, which supplies gas from Marine nificant and growing LNG industry, providing
XII to Central Électrique du Congo (CEC), a opportunities to support secure energy supplies.”
nearby thermal power plant (TPP) at Pointe- Eni has already announced plans to install
Noire, the statement said. two FLNG vessels at Marine XII within the
The new unit will be able to process around framework of a plan to utilise and monetise the
80mn cubic feet (2.27mn cubic metres) per day block’s natural and associated gas reserves.
of gas and will support both electricity and LNG These two units – the existing 600,000 tonne
production, Expro noted. per year Tango FLNG and a newbuild 2.4mn tpy
“The facility is designed to allow incremental FLNG ordered from China’s Wison – will be able
gas production for low-carbon electricity gen- to turn out 3mn tpy of LNG.
eration,” it explained. “It will link to Eni Con- The Italian company is already extracting
go’s offshore floating LNG (FLNG) operations, gas from its offshore fields and piping it to shore
supporting both the local energy market and for use at two onshore TPPs – namely, CEC and
increased global demands for LNG to support Central Électrique du Djeno (CED), which col-
secure energy supplies.” lectively account for the majority of ROC’s elec-
Expro went on to say that it had been selected tricity production. It is now looking to expand
to carry out this project because it had a success- into the LNG export arena in order to increase its
ful track record in and technical expertise in revenues and meet energy demand in Europe.
the delivery of fast-track modular production
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