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PFLNG Dua sets sail for Rotan offshore Sabah

SOUTH KOREA, 27 November 2019 – PETRONAS marked another milestone as a progressive energy and solutions partner with the official naming of its second floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, PFLNG DUA. The floating LNG facility opens a new source of supply for cleaner energy as it is designed to extract gas from deepwater gas reservoirs in depths up to 1,500 meters.

With PFLNG DUA, the national oil and gas company of Malaysia owns and operates two floating LNG facilities, following the success of PFLNG SATU which has been in operation since 2017. This achievement demonstrates PETRONAS’ strong position in the LNG industry leading the way in innovative solutions to ensure a reliable and secure supply of LNG to meet the growing demand for cleaner energy.

The PFLNG DUA was successfully delivered by PETRONAS together with its partners, JGC Corporation and Samsung Heavy Industries, the consortium responsible for the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning of the floating LNG facility.

Construction of PETRONAS’ second floating LNG facility which started in 2015 is progressing on schedule for completion and sail away in February 2020. PFLNG DUA will be moored over the Rotan Gas Field at a water depth of 1,300 metres, located 140km offshore Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, with the capacity to produce 1.5 million tonnes of LNG per annum.

The naming ceremony held at the Samsung Heavy Industries Shipyard in Geoje Island, South Korea was officiated by Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali as the Lady Sponsor of PFLNG DUA. The ceremony proceeded with the signing of a commemorative plaque by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad onboard PFLNG DUA followed by a guided tour of the 393-metres long floating LNG facility. Also in attendance were President and Group CEO of PETRONAS, Tan Sri Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin, Representative Director and President of JGC Corporation, Mr Tetsuya Muramoto and President and Chief Executive Officer of Samsung Heavy Industries, Mr Joon Ou Nam.

Tan Sri Wan Zulkiflee in his speech said that PFLNG DUA is a key solution by PETRONAS to monetise stranded deepwater gas fields in a safe, economical and sustainable manner. “The development of PFLNG DUA is a step forward in providing a new supply source of clean energy and in realising our shared aspiration for a low carbon future. As an integrated energy player, PETRONAS is fully invested to unlock the potential of natural gas through technology and innovative solutions in line with our Statement of Purpose to be ‘a progressive energy and solutions partner enriching lives for a sustainable future,” added Tan Sri Wan Zulkiflee.

According to Mr Tetsuya Muramoto, “As the leader of the Consortium and as President of JGC, a major LNG EPC player, we are committed to deliver to PETRONAS a smooth and safe start-up of the PFLNG DUA, which will perform its commercial operations offshore Sabah once completed. It is our hope that with the successful delivery of this ground-breaking project we further contribute to PETRONAS’ outstanding vision of providing cleaner energy for the benefit of Malaysia and people all over the world.”

“We are very happy that the safe and successful execution of PFLNG DUA has further strengthened our relationship with PETRONAS as a global market leader. Today’s achievement was made possible through real ‘One Team Spirit’ between PETRONAS and the JGC-SHI consortium during the execution. We sincerely hope that PFLNG DUA can contribute to providing more confidence in the FLNG solution itself, said Mr. Joon Ou Nam.

PETRONAS is an integrated global LNG producer with over 35 years of experience, and more than 10,000 LNG cargoes safely delivered from its global portfolio of facilities in Malaysia, Australia, Egypt and soon – in Canada. The PFLNG DUA will support PETRONAS’ global LNG portfolio and enhance its reputation as a preferred and reliable LNG supplier.
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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.

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.

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.

The construction work is making progress on schedule toward the completion in 2020.
All the topside modules are installed on the hull, now the project team set out the target "No carry over work to Offshore".
The key success factor of on-time delivery of the floating LNG is NOT to carry the planned onshore work over to offshore.
Some statics says offshore work efficiency drops down to less than 25 % of its' on-ground, so to eliminate unplanned offshore work, JGC is taking initiative and making move with "3-ON" approach from the beginning of the project phase.

ON-Time delivery of DWG/Equipment - to ensure the construction of the topside module as planned
ON-Ground construction maximum - finish inspection and tests on land at the end of construction stage of the topside module
ON-Shore mechanical completion and commissioning maximum - plan and finish all the commissioning work can be done on shore before sail away
The concept is, to maximize On-shore work as much as possible.
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17 June 2015
First steel has been cut for Petronas’ second floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessel at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard.

The hull and topsides of thePFLNG2 will eventually weigh 152,000 tons.

Petronas will deploy the vessel to liquefy, produce, and offload processed natural gas from theRotan field, 130 km (80.7 mi) offshore Sabah.

PFLNG2, designed for deepwater operations, will have a capacity of 1.5 MMt/yr.
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Petronas’s second FLNG vessel sets sail for Rotan field

Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas reported Feb. 19 its second floating liquefied natural gas vessel, PFLNG Dua, set sail from South Korea to Rotan Gas field in deepwater Block H, 140 km offshore Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas reported Feb. 19 its second floating liquefied natural gas vessel, PFLNG Dua, set sail from South Korea to Rotan Gas field in deepwater Block H, 140 km offshore Kota Kinabalu, Sabah (OGJ Online, Feb. 14, 2014). The 1,840 nautical mile journey will take some 2 weeks to complete.

Upon arrival at the field, PFLNG Dua will commence its installation, hook-up, and commissioning with the ready-for-start-up date earmarked for midyear and provisional acceptance of the PFLNG Dua by the end of the year.

PFLNG Dua can produce 1.5 million tonnes/year of LNG and will be one of the world’s first floating deep-water LNG vessels capable of reaching remote, stranded, and marginal gas reserves in waters up to 1,500 m deep.

PFLNG Dua was delivered by Petronas and partners, JGC Corp. and Samsung Heavy Industries, the consortium responsible for the engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning of the floating LNG facility.
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