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OFFSHORE ENERGY

Load LNG hooks up offshore to any

LNG carrier Courtesy Sevan Marine power aboard one of Golar’s Keppel- ects like Prelude and, perhaps, Browse, There’s Cameroon LNG, where Golar Like the Kanfa Aragon dual nitrogen built FLNG vessels, or FLNGVs. are set to help niche suppliers ? nd new LNG Ltd. has since New Year 2015 been expander process, the MODEC, Toyo

With energy consumption paramount markets. partnered with Societe Nationale de Hy- Engineering and Nippon Kaiji Kyokai aboard an FLNG — with extra compres- Perth-based KT Maritime Services drocarbures and Perenco (of Cameroon) FLNG liquefaction solution LiBro (for sion, separation and refrigeration to ser- Australia cut steel at the end of 2014 to give the Golar Hilli — to be re-named lithium bromide) is scalable and ef? - vice (plus ship and crew power needs) for the ? rst of three in? eld support ves- GoFLNG — new work exporting 500 cient in warm climes (doldrums). Unlike — the Rolls-Royce Bergen motors won sels, or ISVs, to support Shell’s Prelude billion cubic feet of gas from the off- plant that might use propane to cool gas out for energy use described as “low”. FLNG project. shore Kribi ? elds to world markets. For to LNG, LiBro uses the power plant’s

The Golar Hilli’s engines are due to be The vessels became business for Sin- eight years, Golar will earn a tariff on own exhaust to cool the cargo, a safe and ? tted in 2015. gapore yard ASL. the 1.2 MMtpa of LNG produced. That’s ef? cient variant sure be popular in the

Its conversion into an FLNGV will be The award marked another joint ven- smallish by LNG standards, but not for world’s dangerous oil provinces. Apply- ? nished by 2017, with the Gimi follow- ture of suppliers, with Shell’s blessing, FLNG or the Cameroonian economy. ing nitrogen as a refrigerant is not new ing. Golar says it will focus on “low- as a need for an ISV concept became “The project will be the ? rst ? oating for liquefaction technology. cost, rapid deployment” using its LNG apparent with Prelude. KT, propulsion LNG export project in Africa and will What is using lithium bromide heat carriers. expert Kotug International and Teekay see Cameroon joining the small num- absorption and chilled water to pre-cool

Gas projects “requiring minimal pro- Shipping Australia formed the JV in ber of LNG exporting nations,” a Golar (condense away water) and cool (lique- cessing” (dry, clean gas or associated gas 2012 with an eye to Prelude. communiqué states. faction) natural gas by ? rst circulating usually ? ared). The three, planned Browse FLNGs Another FLNG ? rst. As the northern waste heat from turbine exhaust to cool “Floating infrastructure has and will will, if they are built, also need ISVs to spring turned to summer, Rosneft, Rus- refrigerants. fundamentally alter LNG market dy- service the FLNGV’s LNG, LPG and sia’s third-largest gas producer, signed a It sounds brilliant. namics,” says Golar chief exec Doug condensate equipment, while also train- pact with Golar for two more tariff-earn- As for reliability — lithium bromide

Arnell. He con? rms Golar FLNGVs will ing for responder and evacuation roles. ing FLNG projects for unnamed projects absorption is the stuff of land-based air- be used as early FPSOs were — in the in the oil company’s Latin American conditioning.

doldrums of the world, or “Located off- FLNG Project Pipeline portfolio. The company’s involvement in Petro- shore in benign to moderate met-ocean A number of FLNG FEEDs and pre- nas’ PFLNG 2 and the consortium of conditions.” Golar FLNGVs will target FEEDs since 2008 contemplate new Air-conditioning JGC Corp and Samsung is a sign this projects of up to 2.8 mtpa. equipment designs, and a contest — if So far, a fairly long list of consortia compact solution has a future. not a con? ict — is unfolding among liq- that include liquefaction contractors and For now, Malaysians will marvel at

Support Vessels uefaction factions. This game already vessel owners have had success with a another FLNG ? rst in PFLNG 1. It’ll be

Even the large, multiple-process proj- bodes well for the supply chain. tiny number of LNG processes. Asia’s ? rst FLNG. 40 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • SEPTEMBER 2015

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