LNG

Modec has won a contract to supply an internal turret mooring system for Eni’s Coral Norte floating LNG project offshore Mozambique. The system will be provided through MODEC’s SOFEC unit, with the Japanese offshore services group working alongside the Technip Energies-JGC joint venture. Coral Norte is Eni’s second FLNG development in Mozambique, building on the existing Coral South project in the Rovuma Basin.

Woodside Energy, the operator of the North West Shelf and Pluto LNG plants in Western Australia, is having to undertake remedial work and a cost review of its biggest overseas project, the Sangomar Field Development offshore Senegal in West Africa, and has pushed back the start-up because of work to be undertaken in Singapore on the production facility.

Toyo Engineering Corp. of Japan, an expert in gas processing projects and LNG import terminals, is discussing an engineering alliance with Japanese offshore platform construction company MODEC to maintain stable global oil and gas supplies in the years ahead.

McDermott International, the US LNG and energy engineering company, said it sent out the second shipment of topside modules for a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for Japan’s MODEC Inc to operate for oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico.

The departure comes just weeks after the first shipment of modules sailed away from McDermott's Altamira fabrication facility located in Mexico,, near the Altamira LNG import terminal.

The FPSO will be located in the Area 1 block, approximately six miles (10 kilometres) off the coast of Mexico in the shallow waters of the Campeche Bay at a water depth of approximately 105 feet (32 metres).

“Our MODEC project fabrication team at McDermott's Altamira Fabrication Yard continues to deliver for our customer with this latest shipment of modules," said Mark Coscio, Senior Vice President of Mcdermott for North, Central and South America.

“Our strong, local team remains focused on safety and execution excellence as we work to complete the modules needed for the EPCI fixed platform,” he explained.

The MODEC project scope of work consists of five FPSO topside modules, which will be delivered to the client in two shipments.

This second shipment includes modules that will provide inlet separators, oil separation, a flare KO Drum and sand clean-up materials for the FPSO.

The modules will travel from McDermott's Altamira fabrication facility to Singapore where integration will be performed at the Dyna-Mac Fabrication Yard.

MODEC is responsible for the engineering, procurement, construction, mobilization, installation and operation of the FPSO, including topsides processing equipment as well as hull and marine systems.

SOFEC, Inc., a MODEC group company, will design and supply the disconnectable tower yoke mooring system of the FPSO.

The FPSO will be capable of processing 90,000 barrels of crude oil per day, 75 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, 120,000 barrels of water injection per day and have a storage capacity of 900,000 barrels of crude.

The first oil and natural gas production by the FPSO is planned for 2021.

Oct 30 (LNGJ) - MODEC Inc. of Japan said it signed a contract with ConocoPhillips (Australia) to provide a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Barossa field, offshore northwest Australia that will supply the Darwin LNG plant. The Barossa FPSO is intended to produce gas and condensate from subsea wells supply Darwin via a gas pipeline.

   The Barossa FPSO is MODEC's largest Gas FPSO to date and will be able to export over 600 million standard cubic feet of gas per day as well as store up to 650,000 barrels of condensate for export. “It has been designed to withstand a 100-year cyclone event at a water depth of 260 metres and will be located some 300 kilometers northwest of Darwin,” said the company. The FPSO hull will be constructed in China at Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co. (DSIC) in the northeast Liaoning Province.