LNG

March 17 (LNGJ) - A joint venture comprising JGC Holdings of Japan and South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction of South Korea have been awarded downstream contracts for the Papua New Guinea LNG expansion project. JGC and Hyundai were awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract and an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) estimation contract as part of a competition by PNG plant operator ExxonMobil on behalf of the Papua LNG project partners.

   The project is to build 4 million tonnes per annum of LNG liquefaction capacity adjacent to the existing PNG LNG plant located northwest of the capital Port Moresby. It also includes the use of 2 MTPA of liquefaction capacity in the existing two Trains at PNG LNG. The expansion will use feed gas from the onshore Elk-Antelope gas field.

LNG Canada, the largest current global liquefaction and export joint venture under construction, is aiming to get back on schedule for a 2025 commercial start-up after work interruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic at the site near the town of Kitimat on the Pacific Coast of British Columbia.

JGC Corp. of Japan has been awarded an engineering contract in the Sultanate of Oman by French major Total for what will be the world’s first liquefied natural gas production plant built specially to supply the shipping fuel market on the Arabian Peninsula.