Floating LNG

Shell is planning to build the world’s largest offshore floating facility. The FLNG facility will be sited 200 km offshore Australia.

Jurong Shipyard has secured a S$ 20 million contract from Golar LNG Energy to convert the LNG Khannur to an FSRU.

DNV is to issue a new range of technical guidance on offshore gas terminals following the technologies rising use of FSRUs, FPSOs and SRVs in recent years.

Technip, in a consortium with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd, has been awarded the FEED contract for an FLNG unit by Petronas and MISC Berhad.

Granherne, a subsidiary of KBR, has been selected by GDF SUEZ Bonaparte Pty Ltd to execute the pre-FEED study for the Bonaparte LNG Project.

Shell’s first planned FLNG deployment off the northwest coast of Australia has received federal environmental approval.

Golar LNG has been selected as the successful bidder to build the West Java FSRU project by Nusantara Regas.

Technip has announced a strategic partnership with subsidiaries of PETRONAS, to work jointly on onshore and offshore projects.

Lithuania has approved the construction of a floating LNG terminal to help it achieve greater energy independence.

The Sunrise joint venture has chosen to use Shell’s proprietary FLNG technology to develop the Greater Sunrise gas fields in the East Timor Sea.

The Indonesian government is looking for South Korean investors to back three new floating LNG terminals.

Australia, with 24 currently active and future LNG projects, could become the second largest LNG producing nation in the world by 2015, according to the International Energy Agency.