LNG

Woodside Energy, the operator of the North West Shelf and Pluto LNG plants in Western Australia, has issued its 2023 guidance including a maintenance shutdown at the Pluto facility and marked progress on the Sangomar field development offshore Senegal in West Africa.

The American Bureau of Shipping, the US classification society, has approved a new offshore repair method developed jointly by Japanese companies Modec and Toray Industries for hull structures of floating oil and gas production facilities essential to many LNG and energy projects.

Australian LNG operator Woodside Petroleum has completed its acquisition of a stake valued at more than US$600 million from UK-listed Cairn Energy, giving it overall control of the oil development in Senegal offshore West Africa, which has emerged as a major Atlantic Margin oil and gas province amid major discoveries.

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.

Santos of Australia, a stakeholder in three liquefied natural gas export plants, posted record quarterly LNG sales revenue as its average LNG price soared to US$10.43 per million British thermal units compared with US$7.50 in the same three months of 2017.

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.

Asia-Pacific LNG stakeholder Santos said it made further progress on the front-end engineering and design phase of the Barossa offshore project with the award of three major engineering contracts to continue supplying feed-gas to the Darwin LNG plant, operated by partner ConocoPhillips since 2006.

Norway-based energy consultants Add Energy, said they had joined with Transborders Energy (TBE) of Australia to promote a new business model for fast-track LNG production projects and are planning a pilot venture offshore Australia using the expertise of two large floating LNG and energy market participants.

July 18 (LNGJ) - Japanese offshore oil and gas operator Modec said one of its subsidiaries was awarded the turret mooring system supply contract for the Coral floating LNG project being developed offshore Mozambique by Italian energy company Eni and its partners. The contract was given to the Modec unit by the engineering, procurement and construction joint venture comprising Franco-US business TechnipFMC and JGC Corp. of Japan. The FLNG facility will be designed to produce 3.4 million tonnes per annum of LNG and will be moored in 2,000 metres of water in the Area 4 block of the Rovuma Basin off Mozambique.