LNG

First gas received at Santos’ BW Opal floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel puts the Australian major on track with the Darwin LNG project, CEO Kevin Gallagher said. Situated off Darwin, Northern Territories, the FSPO receives gas from the Barossa gas wells.

Sept 27 (LNGJ) - Kosmos Energy, the shareholder along with UK major BP in the floating LNG export project offshore Senegal and Mauritania, said the completed floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the venture that had broken free from the quayside during a typhoon at a Chinese shipyard on September 15 had been returned to the quayside.

   Kosmos, based in Dallas, Texas, reported the incident after Typhoon Muifa had passed through the Shanghai region and China’s Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry shipyard in Qidong. “Inspections conducted to date have not identified any significant damage. The forward plan is to complete all inspections and incorporate the findings into the remaining work scope prior to sailaway,” said Kosmos.

Kosmos Energy, the shareholder along with UK major BP in the floating LNG export project offshore Senegal and Mauritania, said the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the venture had broken free from the quayside during a typhoon at the Chinese shipyard where it had just been completed.

Modec Inc., the Japanese energy engineering company that specializes in platforms, was awarded a contract by US major ConocoPhillips for the front-end engineering and design of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Barossa gas field offshore northwest Australia to provide feed-gas for the Darwin LNG plant.

JGC Corp., the leading Japanese liquefied natural gas project engineering company, has signed a cooperation agreement with a major shipyard in northeast China to seek contracts for floating and modular LNG projects.