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Malaysia's Petronas awards EPCIC deal for second FLNG project

Malaysia's state-owned Petronas said Thursday it has awarded the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning contract for its second floating LNG project, located offshore Sabah, to a partnership of Japan's JGC and South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries.

Petronas said the EPCIC contract for PFLNG 2 follows the January 23 board approval of the final investment decision taken on the project.
The FLNG facility will be located at the Rotan field in Block H.

Murphy Oil, operator of the upstream block, had announced FID of the project early this month.


Petronas had awarded two jobs for the front-end engineering design study on the FLNG project in 2012, one to the JGC-Samsung venture, and another to a separate consortium comprising Japan's Mitsui Ocean Development and Engineering IHI, Toyo Engineering and US-based CB&I.

The project will have liquefaction capacity of 1.5 million mt/year, with startup scheduled by early 2018, Petronas said.

Meanwhile, the company's first FLNG facility, PFLNG 1, recently achieved another milestone with the commencement of the vessel's keel laying process at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering shipyard in South Korea.

PFLNG 1 will be moored at the Kanowit field offshore Sarawak and is on track to start operations by the end of next year. It has a design capacity of 1.5 million mt/year, Petronas said.

"The facilities will play a significant role in Petronas' efforts to unlock the gas reserves in Malaysia's remote and stranded fields which otherwise could be uneconomical to develop and evacuate," the company said.
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JGC's Contract for a Floating LNG Plant, the First for a Japanese Company

Among the gas fields distributed all over the world, many of them are small-to-medium size reserves, and mostly in the ocean. For the increase in energy demand mainly in emerging countries, development plans for small-to-medium scale offshore gas fields, which have not been developed or commercialized in the past from the viewpoint of economic efficiency, are now planning to progress by state-owned and major oil companies.

PETRONAS, the Malaysian state-owned oil company, was planning a project to construct the third floating LNG in the world to develop offshore gas fields in the state of Sabah.

JGC intended its positioning as a leading contractor for LNG projects, offshore as well as onshore, and formed a consortium with Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., South Korea's representative general heavy industries company, and raised their capabilities of floating LNG EPCIC to PETRONAS jointly.

PETRONAS comprehensively evaluated JGC's extensive experiences in onshore LNG EPC projects and Samsung Heavy Industries' advanced shipbuilding technology, and in February 2014, JGC succeeded in being awarded the contract for a floating LNG EPCIC project, the first for a Japanese company.

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Opening the way to the Oceans

This project is a pioneering one in the offshore oil and gas industry for constructing the world's first floating LNG to develop the deep water gas fields of 1,000 meters depth, and also has an extremely high degree of difficulty from technical standpoints.

"We repeated the trial-and-error process in the floating LNG engineering approximately 10 times that of onshore one even just for the piping design, as there were challenges to require new technical solutions beyond the onshore LNG engineering know-how and Lessons Learned," says a JGC engineer working on this project. To progress the module construction as per the EPCIC schedule, it was necessary to transfer technical information required for the construction such as design drawing, engineering data timely to Samsung Heavy Industries, which was in charge of the construction, so speed and quality of the floating LNG engineering were truly needed.

JGC reviewed the design flow from scratch and developed a new design approach of the floating LNG, "Plant Layout Oriented Engineering", having the concept of one-team composing of multi discipline engineers, of which the key concept is to share all discipline information concerning the plant layout with timely manner. The information includes not only final discipline design/engineering results but also each discipline work status and/or potential change of the design. The approach has worked effectively and resulted in the optimization of the design/engineering sequence and in the engineering completion of about half a year faster than onshore LNG EPC projects.

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Leading Floating LNG EPC Projects

In June 2017, JGC was also awarded an EPCIC contract for ENI Coral FLNG project in Mozambique, the first FLNG project in the Africa region. JGC is executing two out of the five floating LNG EPCIC projects currently available in the world which are ongoing or already started the operation. While there may be further challenges in floating LNG from now, JGC will overcome them as a leading company of the EPCIC projects.

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Kuala Lumpur, 15 February 2021 – PETRONAS marked yet another significant milestone for its second Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility, PFLNG DUA, with the achievement of its First Drop of LNG production recently. This historic event signifies the ability of PFLNG DUA topside facility to produce on spec LNG product, which further validates the technology concept of floating LNG solutions for deepwater gas fields.

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The Company’s first deep water FLNG facility is currently located at the Rotan gas field, 140km off Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. In collaboration with its upstream Production Sharing Contract partner, PTT Exploration and Production, it has successfully completed the subsea commissioning phase and achieved its First Gas on 6 February 2021.

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PETRONAS Vice President of LNG Asset Zakaria Kasah said: “This achievement showcases our focused execution and continuous effort in pushing boundaries to deliver innovative and customer-centric solutions to our customers. Despite operating in a challenging environment which is exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, we managed to commission this megastructure and achieve first LNG production in 7 days upon the first gas in. This is a record achievement, and a great milestone for PETRONAS and the LNG industry.”
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