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    ExxonMobil Contracts Technip, JGC to Handle Front-End Engineering for Mozambique LNG Project

    Sept. 26, 2024
    The plant will feature electric-driven LNG trains instead of gas turbines to help reduce greenhouse gasses emissions as compared to conventional LNG projects.
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    Technip Energies and JGC Corporation have been awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by ExxonMobil for the Rovuma LNG project at Palma in the remote Afungi peninsula of Mozambique.

    The project is on behalf of Mozambique Rovuma Venture (MRV), a joint venture of ExxonMobil, Eni, and CNPC.

    The project will consist of a liquified natural gas plant with a total production capacity of 18 metric tons per year (Mtpa), including 12 fully modularized LNG trains of 1.5 Mtpa each.

    The plant will feature electric-driven LNG trains instead of gas turbines to help reduce greenhouse gasses emissions as compared to conventional LNG projects. It will also include prefabricated and standardized modules to be assembled at the project site in Mozambique, offering cost competitiveness and certainty in delivery schedule.

    LNG is natural gas chilled to about minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit to liquify it and make it stable for shipping. Record shale gas production in the U.S. has resulted in it pipelining natural gas to export terminals on the Gulf Coast and becoming the world’s No. 1 exporter of LNG.

    Earlier this month, Lake Charles LNG selected the KTJV joint venture of Technip Energies and EPC and operations firm KBR. The KTJV joint venture will oversee work to convert Lake Charles LNG’s current import and regasification terminals into an LNG export terminal along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast.

    The U.S. ranked first last year in LNG exporting globally, according to the federal Energy Information Administration. Daily LNG exports averaged 11.9 billion cubic feet per day, which was 12% higher than in 2022, according to the EIA.

    Europe is the top destination for U.S. LNG experts, with more than two-thirds going to nations on that continent. Much of northern Europe is transitioning away from Russian natural gas after that nation invaded Ukraine two years ago.

    French-based Technip Energies is a spinoff of multinational engineering firm TechnipFMC. The latter parent company was created in 2019 from the merger of Technip and U.S.-based FMC Technologies. 

     

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    Walton formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

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