Petronas revealed on Tuesday that construction of the
unit had started at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering's
shipyard in Okpo, South Korea.
Once completed, the vessel will be
capable of producing 1.2 million tonnes per annum of LNG and is destined
for Petronas' Kanowit gas field which lies about 180 kilometres off the
coast of Sarawak, Malaysia.
Daewoo and Technip were handed the
engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning
contract for the FLNG vessel
in June last year.
Petronas
said on Tuesday the start of construction of the FLNG unit marked a
major milestone as it looks to meet its commissioning schedule of 2015,
which would likely make the Kanowit the first operational FLNG project
in the world.
The FLNG vessel will be 300 metres long, 60 metres wide and 33 metres deep and have a storage capacity of 177,000 cubic metres.
Daewoo started construction of an FLNG vessel for Shell
in October last year which is destined for the Anglo-Dutch supermajor's Prelude field off Western Australia.
Shell's
FLNG unit will be capable of producing 3.6 million tonnes per annum of
LNG, plus sizeable quantities of condensate and LPG, however the
Prelude
project is not expected to commmence production until 2017.
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