Mozambique: Floating hotel on its way to Cabo Delgado

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Mozambique: Floating hotel on its way to Cabo Delgado

6:21 CAT | 20 Jan 2022

File photo: Nortrans

A floating hotel, CSS Temis, is on its way to the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, where it will accommodate workers installing a floating liquefied natural gas platform above the Coral South gas field in the Rovuma Basin.

The FLNG platform arrived in Mozambican waters at the beginning of the year and is currently awaiting certification and licensing from the Mozambican authorities before it can be put into operation. Once that process is complete the platform needs to be secured to the seabed 6,500 feet below the surface with twenty mooring lines and then connected to the gas.

This installation will be carried out by the contractor TechnipFMC whose workforce will be stationed on accommodation support vessel CSS Temis under a contract signed with Singapore’s offshore vessel provider Nortrans.

According to Nortrans, the contract provides for 400 client personnel to live onboard during the project period of up to 200 days from the beginning of February.

Currently, the vessel is in the port of Cape Town in South Africa.

The Coral South project is due to begin operating in the second half of this year with a production capacity of 3.4 million metric tonnes of LNG per year, all of which has been secured by British Petroleum (BP) through a long term contract.

The operator of Coral South is the Italian company ENI and the field holds an estimated 16 trillion cubic feet (TCFs) of gas.

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— VesselFinder (@VesselFinder) January 6, 2022