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Stena wins FEED contract for
Vietnamese LNG project
PROJECTS & STENA Power & LNG Solutions has been detailed model testing to ensure optimum per-
COMPANIES awarded a front-end engineering and design formance under the environmental conditions
(FEED) contract for the use of its jettyless LNG in the Mekong Delta, Stena said.
transfer and regasification technology at Delta “The Jettyless Floating Terminal and the
Offshore Energy’s (DeltaOE) planned LNG-to- Self-Installing Regas Platform are key compo-
power project in Vietnam. nents of our LNG-to-power solution for Bac
This builds on a technology licence agree- Lieu,” stated DeltaOE’s managing director,
ment reached between the two companies from Bobby Quintos. “They allow us to position the
August 2020 for DeltaOE to use Stena’s jettyless LNG receiving terminal offshore, and thereby to
technology. minimise the project’s impact on land and on the
DeltaOE’s project, which is located in Bac coastline of Bac Lieu,” he added.
Lieu Province in southern Vietnam, is set to “Our jettyless LNG-to-power technology has
be among the country’s first privately operated been created to meet demand for more flexible
regasification terminals. The power plant will LNG import and export terminals, such as is
have a capacity of 3.2 GW, with DeltaOE aiming required for the hugely exciting Bac Lieu LNG-
to bring the first 800-MW block online by early to-power project,” Stena’s chief technology
2024 and to have all four blocks in service by the officer, Svein Hellesmark, said.
end of that year. The company is targeting the Several LNG-to-power projects have been
start of construction later this year. proposed for Vietnam, but thus far only the Hai
DeltaOE will employ Stena’s Jettyless Floating Linh terminal is thought to be near start-up,
Terminal (JFT) and Self-Installing Regas Plat- while the state-backed Thi Vai terminal is
form (SRP) for the project. These will be located under construction. Among the other projects,
roughly 40 km offshore. The FEED will include DeltaOE’s scheme is among the frontrunners.
EUROPE
Equinor completes internal probe into fires
PROJECTS & NORWAY’S Equinor has completed its internal concluded its own probe into the Hammerfest
COMPANIES investigation into two fires that broke out at its LNG fire in late April, finding that dead insects
Hammerfest LNG plant and Tjeldbergodden within five-year-old air-intake filters and heat
methanol facility last year, pledging to hire and from anti-icing panels were behind the fire at
train more staff. one of the plant’s power turbines. The damning
The incidents were caused by both technical report said there were serious breaches of regula-
and human errors, Equinor said on May 12. The tions. It noted that Equinor had, as a cost-cutting
blaze at Hammerfest LNG happened last Sep- measure, changed its maintenance schedule for
tember, resulting in an 18-month expected out- air filters from annual replacements to inspec-
age, while the fire at the methanol plant occurred tion-based maintenance. The filters in question
in early December and led to two months of had not been replaced in six years.
downtime. Equinor disputed that filter maintenance was
“We are bolstering our recruitment of engi- a contributing factor, however.
neering resources within electrical disciplines “The investigation group does not believe
and up to 50 skilled workers are bound for the that the maintenance interval for exchanging the
onshore facilities,” Equinor said in a statement. filters that self-ignited is a contributing cause,”
The company has faced repeated calls from the company said.
labour units to increase staff and training. No one was injured in the incident, and
While the incident at Tjeldbergodden was Equinor said there was no major risk of personal
the result of a runaway steam turbine after its injuries. Both the company and the PSA con-
shutdown valve malfunctioned, the self-ignition cluded that the fire was unlikely to have spread
of filters in an air intake at the LNG plant was to other parts of the facility.
caused by several “direct and underlying factors.” The PSA is yet to publish its findings on the
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) methanol fire.
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