Golar LNG starts GTA liquified natural gas vessel

Golar LNG Ltd. received feed gas at its Gimi floating liquified natural gas (FLNG) vessel from the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) project offshore Mauritania and Senegal.

The gas came from the bp-operated GTA floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) vessel. It is cryogenically cooled in Gimi’s four liquefaction trains and stored before transfer to LNG carriers. Gimi can store up to 125,000 cu m LNG.

Receipt of gas from the FPSO allows full commissioning activities to ramp up. The first LNG export cargo is now expected in first-quarter 2025. Full commercial operations are expected in second-quarter 2025. 

The GTA Phase 1 project will produce gas from reservoirs in deep water about 120 km offshore through a subsea system to an FPSO, which will initially process the gas, removing heavier hydrocarbon components.

One of the deepest offshore developments in Africa with gas wells in water depths of up to 2,850 m, GTA Phase 1—once fully commissioned—is expected to produce about 2.3 million tonnes/year (tpy) of LNG for more than 20 years. On Jan. 2, bp started flowing GTA gas to its FPSO (OGJ Online, Jan. 2, 2025). 

Golar LNG owns and operates the Gimi FLNG. bp operates GTA (56%) on behalf of partners Kosmos Energy (27%), Petrosen (10%), and SMH (7%).