Shaanxi LNG awards Technip liquefaction FEED contract

Shaanxi LNG Reserves & Logistics Co. Ltd. has awarded Technip Energies NV a contract to provide the process-design package, front-end engineering and design, and key equipment for a single 0.8-million tonne/year (tpy) liquefaction train as part of the 3-million cu m/day Xi'An LNG Emergency Reserve & Peak Regulation project in China.

The contract also covers technical services for construction, commissioning, startup, and performance testing.

Xi’An LNG will use Air Products and Chemicals Inc.’s single mixed refrigerant (AP-SMR) liquefaction which will be all-electric motor-driven, according to Technip.

The company added that it will be the largest liquefaction unit in the world using a single electric motor-driven mixed refrigerant compressor and that this will make it a reference point in terms of low-carbon LNG production.