Offshore staff
GEOJE, South Korea – A naming and sail-away ceremony has taken place for the Coral-Sul FLNG vessel at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea.
The vessel, commissioned by the Eni-led Area 4 partnership for the deepwater Coral South project offshore Mozambique, will be towed to the field location in the Rovuma basin.
Eni anticipates first gas in the second half of 2022.
Following FID for the project in 2017, FLNG fabrication and construction activities started in 2018 and were completed within budget and on schedule.
The vessel is 432 m (1,417 ft) long and 66 m (216 ft) wide, weighs around 220,000 tons, and can accommodate up to 350 people in the eight-story living quarter module. It has a gas liquefaction capacity of 3.4 MMt/yr, and will produce 450 bcm from the Coral reservoir.
On arrival in Mozambican waters, mooring and hook-up operations will get under way in a water depth of around 2,000 m (6,562 ft). The 20 mooring lines collectively weigh 9,000 tons.
Energy efficiency measures include zero flaring during normal operations, use of thermal efficient aero-derivative gas turbines for refrigerant compressors and power generation; dry low NOx technology to reduce NOx emissions; and waste heat recovery systems for gas processing.
Eni’s partners in the Mozambique Rovuma Venture are ExxonMobil, CNPC, MRV, Galp, KOGAS, and Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos.
11/15/2021
