TotalEnergies lets FEED contract for Papua LNG plant

TotalEnergies SE has let a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract to Technip Energies for the operator’s Papua LNG project upstream production infrastructure in Papua New Guinea.

The operator in 2021 remobilized project teams for work on the project after a pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic (OGJ Online, May 5, 2021). The project is targeting a final investment decision (FID) around the end of 2023, and a start-up at the end of 2027.

The 5.6-million tonne/year (tpy) Papua LNG plant will liquefy gas from the onshore Elk and Antelope fields in Block PRL-15. Gas produced by the fields is expected to be transported by a 320 km onshore/offshore pipeline to the Caution Bay site north of Port Moresby to be liquefied in two trains, which will be integrated into ExxonMobil’s existing 7.9 million tpy infrastructure in Caution Bay.

The project also incorporates a carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) scheme to remove field CO2 and reinject it into the reservoirs, the service provider said in a release Aug. 22.