Floating LNG

KBR is to execute FLNG production vessel design work for GDF Suez’s project offshore Darwin, Australia.

FLNG offers companies a new avenue to develop distant ‘stranded’ offshore resources.

Shell has revealed that it has begun construction of the giant, first-of-a-kind Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility.

GE Oil & Gas has been contracted to supply compressor train technology for Asia’s first Floating LNG facility, located off the coast of Malaysia.

Höegh LNG has won the contract to build an FSRU in Quintero Bay, Chile, from Colbún S.A. and AES Gener S.A. The FSRU will be used to supply the client’s power plants.

Asia is expected to lead the way with FLNG developments adding flexibility to offshore drilling programmes.

Black & Veatch will provide technology and services for the world’s first Floating LNG liquefaction unit – the EXMAR EXPORT™.

Golar LNG has been awarded the contract to supply Chile’s Gas Atacama with an LNG FSRU for a minimum 15 year charter.

Technip has been awarded the services contract for the Ichthys LNG FPSO facility.

The Technip-Daewoo Consortium (TDC), has been awarded the services contract for engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning for an FLNG facility with a 1.2 million tpy capacity by Petronas Floating LNG 1 (Labuan) Ltd.

FMC Technologies has signed an agreement with Technip to supply loading arms as part of the Shell Prelude FLNG project.

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A dedicated cluster group has been launched by ITF in Australia to drive forward the country's oil technology development.

Hoegh LNG has signed an agreement with PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) to provide them with an FSRU and mooring system offshore Belawan, near the city of Medan, in North Sumatra, Indonesia. The project will employ the first of Höegh LNG's new building FSRUs under construction at Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd in Korea.

Norwegian company, Hoegh, has won a contract for one of its soon-to-be-built LNG floating storage and regasification units.