Baker Hughes to provide rotating equipment for Coral South FLNG
Baker Hughes, a GE company, has announced a second major contract for Eni East Africa's Coral South FLNG development, offshore Mozambique.
The contract was awarded in 2Q 2017 by a JV formed by TechnipFMC and JGC Corp., the lead partner in a consortium that will provide engineering, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning and startup for the Coral South FLNG facility.
The second contract, which was awarded through the former GE Oil & Gas business, will allow Baker Hughes-GE (BHGE) to provide rotating equipment for the power and gas refrigeration process of the new FLNG facility.
Contract award details. The order consists of four turbocompression trains for mixed refrigeration services, using an aeroderivative gas turbine (model PGT25+G4) technology to drive the centrifugal compressors. In addition, the company will provide four turbogeneration units, also driven by aeroderivative gas turbines (model PGT25+G4).
The components of the turbocompressor trains and turbogeneration units will be manufactured at BHGE's Nuovo Pignone facility in Florence, Italy. The train will be assembled and tested in the Massa facility.
The turbogeneration units will be equipped with electric generators provided by the GE Power Conversion business.
A third contract was also awarded to BHGE after the closing of the integration between GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes last July. That contract includes the supply of boiloff gas (BOG) and booster compressors capable of operating at –180°C to reliquefy excessive BOG evaporating out of the LNG storage tanks.
"Coral South LNG is an enormously important development for Mozambique and the region—the first newbuilt FLNG facility to be installed in Africa, and one of only a small number in the world today," said Rod Christie, President and CEO, Turbomachinery & Process Solutions, BHGE.
Previous contract awards for Coral South FLNG. The contracts won by BHGE follow an earlier award in June this year for the supply of seven "Christmas tree" systems, three two-slot manifolds with integrated distribution units, MB rigid jumpers, seven subsea wellheads with spare components, a complete topside control system to be installed on the Coral South FLNG facility, and associated services equipment and support.
The Coral South FLNG project, the first phase of Eni East Africa's wider plan of development for the world-class gas discoveries made in the Rovuma Basin Area 4, will see the installation of an FLNG facility with a capacity of around 3.4 MMtpy.
The FLNG will be fed by six subsea wells and is expected to produce approximately 5 Tcf of gas during its 25 yr of production, with an anticipated startup in mid-2022.
The first offshore project to start producing gas in Mozambique, it will provide significant local economic benefits through job creation and support the region's future energy needs.
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