Eni moves to second FLNG platform in Rovuma basin; Technip to develop the project

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Eni moves to second FLNG platform in Rovuma basin; Technip to develop the project

8:23 CAT | 28 Jun 2023

FILE - The FLNG facility will, like its 'twin sister' already installed and in production since October last year, be designed to produce around 3.4 mtpa of liquefied natural gas and will be anchored a few tens of kilometres from the coast in the 2,000 metre-deep Area 4, off Cabo Delgado. (File photo: Eni]

Eni has signed an agreement with the engineering giant TechnipFMC to start work on duplicating its floating liquid natural gas (FLNG) unit off the northern coast of Mozambique, at a time when competition for FLNG berthing space is increasing all around the world.

Several sources confirm that Technip, a Paris-based multinational engineering company which develops projects, technologies, systems and services in the energy sector, has already signed an agreement to start preliminary work on what would be a complete copy of the Coral Sul FLNG unit, the first deep water FLNG platform in the world, with a production capacity of 3.4 mtpa (million tons of liquefied gas per year)

Following the successful construction and installation of the initial Coral Sul FLNG unit, the first development project related to the discovery of gas in Area 4 of the Rovuma basin, TechnipFMC now expects, together with JGC Corporation and Samsung Heavy Industries, all partners of the TJS Consortium (Technip-JGC-SHI) which the French engineering giant leads, to be granted yet another important contract by CORAL FLNG SA (the Eni-led consortium).

This contract covers the engineering, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning and start-up of the Coral South FLNG facility and its associated system of risers and subsea flowlines, as well as the installation of umbilicals and subsea equipment.

The FLNG facility will, like its ‘twin sister’ already installed and in production since October last year, be designed to produce around 3.4 mtpa of liquefied natural gas and will be anchored a few tens of kilometres from the coast in the 2,000 metre-deep Area 4, off Cabo Delgado.

Eni is the operator of Area 4 with an indirect 50% stake, through Eni East Africa, which holds a 70% stake and leads the exploration consortium, CORAL FLNG SA. Galp, Kogas and Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH) each hold a 10% stake in the project, while the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) indirectly holds a 20% stake through Eni East Africa.

Source: Dário Económico