Qatar Petroleum has issued tender invitations for the engineering, procurement and construction of the four liquefied natural gas expansion mega-Trains planned for Ras Laffan as part of the project to liquefy and export an additional 31 million tonnes per annum of LNG.
TechnipFMC, the French-US energy and subsea engineering company, posted lower third-quarter revenues and income as its work was almost completed on two of the world’s most difficult LNG projects. Prelude FLN offshore Australia and the Yamal LNG plant in Arctic Russia.
March 27 (LNGJ) - TechnipFMC, the global energy and LNG project engineer, was awarded a contract by Shell Offshore for the delivery, integration and installation of the subsea production system and subsea riser, jumper and flowline equipment for phase one of the Kaikias deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico. “TechnipFMC has a proven track record of competitively designing subsea production systems and technologies that directly contribute to improved project economics,” said Hallvard Hasselknipe, President of Subsea Projects at TechnipFMC. Kaikias is located in the prolific Mars-Ursa basin about 210 kilometres from the Louisiana coast. The first phase of development includes three wells designed to produce natural gas and oil at peak rates of up to 40,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.