From Australia (RW): Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, in joint venture (JV) with KBR, has been awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for ENI group’s floating LNG development, (SEN, 31/12), offshore Mozambique.
The award means that this JV, known as the KD Consortium, will be one of three competing for the EPCI contract to build the proposed Coral South FLNG facility for development of one portion of ENI’s massive gas discoveries in Area 4 in the Rovuma Basin.
The fields include Mamba South, North, and North East, Coral and Agulha. All are in water depths between 1,500m and 2,600m and lie between 40km and 65km off the coast near the northern offshore border with Tanzania. Estimated reserves total in these fields is in excess of 1.4tcm, although total Area 4 reserves are put at 2.4tcm.
The FEED contract is scheduled for completion in late April 2015. ENI is reportedly looking for an onstream date of 2019.
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From the editor: Eni has expanded its cooperation agreement with Korea Gas Corp (Kogas) which currently has a 10% stake in Area 4.
The development of the deepwater gas resources in Mozambique will extend a partnership which is already in operation on five projects including ones in Cyprus, Indonesia and Timor Leste.
Also in the emerging east Africa deepwater gas basin, the Statoil/ExxonMobil group which holds the licence for Tanzania’s Block 2 has made its seventh discovery with the wildcat Giligiliani-1.
The well, spudded by the drillship Discoverer Americas in 2,500m, has added another 34bcm to bring the total of discovered gas resources up to nearly 600bcm.
Over on the west coast of Africa in Equatorial Guinea, Ophir Energy has had its plans for an FLNG development in the deepwater Block R boosted following the successful drillstem test at Fortuna-2. This well added 37bcm which brings the total reserves in the block to 96bcm.
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