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OFFSHORE ENERGY

Pioneer

ExxonMobil’s FLNG design offshore

Australia

Courtesy ExxonMobil

Stranded gas

Carribean LNG was to be the ? rst.

Photo: Courtesy Black & Veatch value and speed of scaling. The Carrib- to present a weather-safe FLNG design, docking unit that connects to an LNG another win for scalability.

bean FLNG nearshore vessel was set to even going the joint industry project carrier with LNG and vapor return hoses. produce ? rst, when operator Paci? c Ru- route for permanent mooring in cyclonic Back to Liquefaction Spread-moored biales decided to hold off for ? nancial conditions in preparation for a “10,000- One of the handful of FLNG projects While FLNG is eking out new business reasons. As in Western Canada, where year wave” off Northwest Australia, the being built, Petronas’s PLFNG 2 facil- for marine suppliers and liquefaction 18 LNG projects have been submitted, South China Sea or the Gulf of Mexico. ity offshore Sabeh Malaysia is already out? ts, it’s also inspiring them to new smaller projects have been ? rst to pass Company vice president for technology, attracting a trail of suppliers through its business models. FPSO heavyweight through environmental assessment and Fredrik Major, can boast production tur- JGC Corp (Japan) and Samsung Heavy SBM Offshore, which designed the into ? nancial decision-making. ret designs and speaks for a company Industries (South Korea) engineering mooring turret system for Prelude, has capable of getting 60,000-ton topsides consortium. built its own FLNG concept. Together

Sevan Circles aboard a cylindrically hulled ? oating Automation giant Yokogawa Electric’s with German refrigeration expert Linde

While the PRICO solution might have producer. controls business in Malaysia is among a Engineering, it now has a “mid-scale “the lowest capital cost of all competing Major says ? oating production sizing growing number of suppliers connecting FLNG option” called Twin Hull which technologies” plus “simpli? ed control is the big challenge. A key design fea- to the FLNG consortia. Yokogawa will “converts existing LNG tankers into systems” and has been reliable in at least ture of the Sevan cylindrical FPSO is deliver equipment to manage the lique- FLNG facilities”. The company recently 25 projects, relative newbies are also risers concealed behind the outer hull, faction and storage tanks aboard Petro- ? nished the FEED for a Brazilian LNG fostering a market with an increasingly so there’s no turret and “delicate” swivel nas’s ? oater for the deep-water Rotan ? oater and together with Linde Engi- dedicated supply chain. Modec, Kanfa mooring system. Once the darling de- ? eld. neering has designed a concept for Thai

Aragon (nearly 50-50 Sevan and Tech- sign candidate of the postponed Russian “FLNG is a market with great poten- PTTEP. “In the future, SBM Offshore nip), Hi-Load LNG (Sevan) and the cy- Shtokman gas ? eld in the Arctic, the tial,” ABB process automation presi- will focus mainly on FLNG projects lindrical ? oating production contractor Sevan FLNG design still seems to offer dent, Peter Terwiesch, said at the time. where it can add most value by acting as

Sevan Marine itself are all creating a stir extreme open-ocean advantages with its ABB had just won a $50 million job to a main contractor, as it does successfully around the promise of FLNG to recover compartments of condensate tanks on provide PLFNG 2’s electrical systems. for the FPSO market,” the company says stranded gas ahead of costlier platforms top and LNG of? oading to standard car- Like other managers coming to grips to in its earnings report, adding that medi- and without coastal construction (like riers. FLNG, Terwiesch pointed to the Doug- um-sized projects of “up to 2 MMtpa” jetties, pipeline and dredging). “It gives you access to the market,” las-Westwood report that estimates the will be its focus.

Like Shell with Prelude (3.6 MMtpa, Major says of FLNG to a gathering of FLNG market to be worth $64 billion now out of dry dock) — the world’s larg- his peers. Sevan Marine also owns the from now to 2020. The container-ship- Marine Links est ? oating structure — Sevan Marine impressive HiLoad LNG business with like PLFLNG 2 is — at 1.5 MMtpa of Rolls-Royce, too, is entering the FLNG has had to wade through cyclone testing its of? oading system — a towering DP LNG — a smallish producer, but it’s yet fray. It’ll deliver gas engines for onboard 38 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • SEPTEMBER 2015

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