LNG

March 21 (LNGJ) - TechnipFMC, the energy and LNG project engineering company, was awarded a contract by a venture comprising Eni of Italy, Ghana National Petroleum Coro. and commodities company Vitol for the onshore part of the development of the Sankofa natural gas field. Under this contract, TechnipFMC will perform the project management, engineering, supply, construction and commissioning for the Onshore Receiving Facilities to be located in Sanzule as part of a gas-to-power venture. The contract will be mainly executed by a team of TechnipFMC staff in Ghana. The project is scheduled for completion by mid-2018. “We are proud to have been awarded this new contract, which rewards TechnipFMC’s long-term commitment in Africa and plays a strategic role in the gas-to-power program in Ghana,” said Nello Uccelletti, President of TechnipFMC’s Onshore-Offshore business.

Dec 16 (LNGJ) - The $7.7-billion Sankofa Gas Project in Ghana, the West African nation which has two competing floating LNG import and power projects also under development, has received $750 million in loans and guarantees from lending institutions of the World Bank. The Sankofa project is a natural gas field located 60 kilometres offshore Western Ghana. The gas will fuel up to 1,000 megawatts of domestic power generation, or about 40 percent of Ghana’s current installed capacity. The development of the field has been carried out by Italian energy company Eni and Vitol Group of the Netherlands in partnership with Ghana’s National Petroleum Corp. “This project demonstrates that private capital can be mobilized on a large scale to contribute to the country’s energy security,” the lenders said.