NLNG awards FEED Contracts for Train 7

Wed, Jul 11, 2018 | By publisher


Oil & Gas

NIGERIA LNG Limited, NLNG, has awarded the contracts for Front End Engineering Design, FEED, of its planned plant expansion project, Train 7, to B7 JV Consortium and SCD JV Consortium, inching closer to realising its expansion goals of increasing liquefied natural gas production output from 22 Million Tonnes Per Annum, MTPA, to 30 MTPA.

This was revealed today at a ceremony in London to commemorate the award of FEED to the consortia and signing of the contract documents. A completed FEED process will pave way for Engineering, Procurement and Construction, EPC, pricing and bidding processes which are preconditions for Final Investment Decision, FID.

The consortia, B7 JV Consortium comprising American company KBR Inc., Technip of France and Japan Gas Corporation (JGC); and SCD JV Consortium, made up of Saipem of Italy, Japan’s Chiyoda and Daewoo of South Korea, will participate in the Dual FEED Process and produce a Basic Design Engineering Package (BDEP) that will determine their EPC pricing, and eventually their bids to construct the train.

On the Dual FEED strategy at the ceremony, Tony Attah, managing director and chief executive officer of NLNG, said “The Front End Engineering Design is the most crucial part in the build-up to the actualisation of Train 7,  after some delay and lost opportunities to reinforce Nigeria’s position prominently on the global energy map. Today’s event goes to show that Train 7 is alive.

“Typically, FEED takes about 9-12 months but we have explored another strategy for this project by adopting the Dual FEED Process which awards this crucial part of the Train 7 project to two prospective engineering consortia, instead of one contractor. What this does for us is give us a degree of freedom to start FEED and sometime after, EPC Bidding, with both activities overlapping. We remain committed to taking FID as soon as these processes are complete.

“The history of the LNG industry in Nigeria is chequered. After about 30 years of trying to get an LNG project going, in 1989 NLNG was incorporated and one FID after the other, 6 trains were built in quick succession, making us the fastest growing LNG.”

– July 11, 2018 @ 20:05 GMT |

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