Installation of the last of Eni SPA’s Coral-Sul floating LNG (FLNG) 13 topside modules is complete, according to the company. The installation marked the end of the onshore-modules fabrication portion of the project, configuring the entire gas treatment and liquefaction plants, and happened on schedule for an expected 2021 sail-away and 2022 gas production. Integration and commissioning are now under way.
The 3.4-million tonne/year Coral-Sul FLNG is under construction at Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea. Construction of the Coral-Sul FLNG hull and topside modules started in September 2019.The hull was launched in January 2020, followed lifting of the first topside module in May 2020. Total topside weight is 70,000 tonnes.
The vessel is the world’s first new-build deepwater floating liquefaction plant, according to Eni. It will operate offshore Mozambique on Coral gas field in Area 4 of Rovuma basin.
Coral South Project is operated by Eni Rovuma Basin on behalf of Area 4 partners Mozambique Rovuma Venture (an incorporated joint venture owned by Eni, ExxonMobil Corp., and China National Petroleum Corp.), Galp Energia SGPS SA, Korea Gas Corp., and Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos EP It is based on six wells in Coral field at a water depth of around 2,000 m.
Coral field has about 16 trillion cu ft of gas in place and was discovered by Eni in May 2012.
