25 June 2013
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A steel cutting ceremony for
the hull of PETRONAS'
first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG)
was held yesterday at
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard
in Okpo, South Korea.
The steel cutting events signifies
a major milestones for the project
to proceed to its constrution phase
to meet its commissionning schedule in 2015.
PETRONAS signs the engineering, procurement, construction
and installation contract for the project with
The Technip and DSME Consortium
in June 2012.
About PETRONAS FLNG
- The floating LNG facility will be located in
Malaysia's Kanowit gas field,
180 kilometers offshore Sarawak and
will have the capacity to produce
1.2 million tons of LNG per year.
- Once operational, the FLNG facility is expected to change
the landscape of the LNG business, where the
* liquefaction,
* production and
* offloading
processes of LNG previously only possible
at onshore plants are now able to be carried out
hundreds of kilometers away from land and
closer to offshore gas sources.
- The facility will play an important role in efforts to
unlock the gas reserves in
Malaysia's remote and stranded fields
currenlty considered uneconomical to develop and evacuate.
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