LNG

April 2 (LNGJ) - JERA Co. Inc, the largest LNG buyer in Japan, has signed an agreement with Malaysian energy company to evaluate the feasibility of separating and capturing carbon-dioxide emitted by JERA in Japan and then transporting the CO2 to Malaysia for storage. “Malaysia has an abundance of potentially suitable sites for underground CO2 storage,” said JERA.

   “Carbon-capture and storage is a crucial solution for industries that have difficulty reducing CO2 emissions. Governments worldwide actively support CCS projects and numerous initiatives are underway including in the Asia-Pacific region,” explained JERA. Both companies plan to “jointly examine the feasibility across the entire CCS value chain” of the CCS project from cross-border shipping to storage of CO2 in depleted Malaysia gas fields.

BASF Group, the German oil and gas and chemicals company, said the latest Malaysian floating LNG production hull owned by Petronas had selected BASF’s “OASE purple” process for its Acid Gas Removal Unit.

BASF, headquartered in the Rhine River city of Ludwigshafen, said the Petronas-owned vessel, the “PFLNG Dua”, is the first global user of the process.

The German company noted that Petronas successfully started up “FLNG Dua” in February 2021 and completed its performance test run in May 2021.

Petronas, the world leader in FLNG output, said in January 2021 that the “PFLNG Dua” had entered production in a joint venture with Thailand’s energy company PTTEP over the Rotan gas field offshore Sabah.

The vessel is deployed over the gas located 140 kilometres off Kota Kinabalu in Sabah state on the northern part of the island of Borneo.

The “PFLNG Dua” was constructed at the South Korean shipyard, Samsung Heavy Industries.

The first Petronas LNG hull, “PFLNG Satu”, became the world’s first FLNG vessel to start commercial operations in 2017 over the Kanowit gas field offshore Sarawak, another Malaysian state on Borneo.

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The “PFLNG Dua” has production capacity of 1.5 million tonnes of LNG per annum.

BASF said its “OASE purple” process is an amine-based solution that is utilized for the removal of acid gases such as carbon-dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen-sulfide (H2S) from natural gas.

The removal of acid gases is necessary to prepare the gas for the liquefaction and subsequent pipeline transportation.

“The highly efficient and environmentally friendly BASF technology provides flexibility and low capital expenditure for its customers,” said BASF.

“Additionally, the low energy demand of the process combined with the non-corrosive nature of the solvent keeps operating and maintenance costs (OPEX) low,” the German company added.

BASF explained that the process also provided a high level of gas purity and gas recovery while keeping solvent losses to a minimum.

“We are proud to now have our first FLNG reference in operation and running at 100 percent capacity, which is the fruit of many years of research,” said Andreas Northemann, Head of BASF’s Gas Treatment business.

“We applied our onshore LNG expertise and conducted motion studies and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to ensure a high reliability, low maintenance design which meets our customer’s stringent offshore specifications and challenges,” added Northemann.

Sept 17 (LNGJ) - Petronas Gas subsidiary Pengerang LNG plans to issue Islamic medium-term notes (Sukuk Murabahah) to raise up to 3 billion Malaysian ringgit ($724M) for phase two development of its LNG regasification terminal in the southern state of Johor. Petronas owns 65 percent of the project, the Dialog Group 25 percent and the Johor Government 10 percent.

   The issuer under the name Pengerang LNG II has lodged a programme for the 30-year notes with the Malaysian Securities Commission. Initial extra storage of 200,0000 cubic metres capacity is planned at the Pengerang regasification terminal development at the site of an integrated industrial complex comprising an oil refinery and the storage and distribution of oil and petrochemical products.

Malaysian energy company Petronas said it had sucessfully moved its “PFLNG Satu” floating LNG production hull to the Kebabangan field offshore Sabah and introduced the first feed-gas volumes, while the initial cargo was expected to be shipped within weeks.

The “PFLNG Satu” had previously been located over the Kanowit stranded gas field offshore Sarawak where it became the world’s first FLNG vessel to start commercial operations in 2017.

It has now been moved to a location 90 kilometres offshore Sabah, the Malaysian state on the northern part of the island of Borneo, and is starting liquefaction of gas from the Kebabangan cluster field.

The first LNG cargo delivery from the new field is scheduled to take place in June.

“The introduction of first gas into the ‘PFLNG Satu’ was to the turret system via a 5-kilometre flexible pipeline,” said Petronas.

“The commencement of a series of start-up activities included the cooling down of natural gas until the production of the first LNG,” it added.

The Petronas Vice President of LNG Assets, Zakaria Kasah, said the moving of the FLNG hull showcases the company’s focused execution and collaboration efforts.

“We not only prove our concept of a relocatable floating LNG facility, but we have also seamlessly achieved the first LNG in just three days after first gas,” added Kasah.

“This is indeed another proud moment and a great milestone for Petronas and the floating LNG industry,” he stated.

Designed for water-depth of between 70 metres and 200 metres and with a processing capacity of 1.2 million tonnes per annum, the “FLNG Satu” operates with a crew of 155 onboard.

Petronas is also developing a second FLNG venture using another vessel to be deployed over the deepwater Rotan gas field, about 80 miles offshore Sabah.

Its joint venture partner is the Thai state energy company PTTEP, which purchased its stake from Murphy Oil, the US exploration and production company.

The Rotan gas well was discovered by Murphy in 2007. The Rotan field FLNG vessel is being designed to produce 1.5 MTPA.

JGC Corp., the Japanese energy and LNG engineering company, improved its liquefied natural gas backlog as it planned a corporate overhaul to be more agile in pursuing engineering, procurement and construction contracts.

The Royal Dutch Shell-led LNG Canada project has become the main issue in the province of British Columbia in the run-up to the Canadian federal election this year, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau emerging as a supporter of the venture amid renewed protests.

Malaysian energy company Petronas has started commercial gas-up and cool-down services for the global LNG carrier fleet from its liquefaction plant at Bintulu port in Sarawak in competition to other ports such as Singapore.

Malaysian energy company Petronas said second-quarter net profit more than doubled compared with the same quarter of 2017 because of higher oil and gas revenues and the absence of investment costs related to the Pacific Northwest LNG project in Canada that affected 2017 earnings.

Royal Dutch Shell said it completed the sale of its 15 percent stake in liquefaction plant three at the Malaysian LNG Bintulu Complex in Sarawak for a net $650 million.

Gladstone LNG, one of three coal-seam-gas to-LNG plants built on Curtis Island in the Australian state of Queensland over the past three years, has delivered its 200th cargo.