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Fluor-JGC win first Mozambique LNG project

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Fluor Corporation and JGC Corporation have announced winning a 50/50 joint venture front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the first natural gas liquefaction facility in Mozambique.
The project is located in the Cabo Delgado Province, 2,000km northeast of the capital city Maputo.
The FEED will deliver designs for the initial phase of the Mozambique LNG project of four trains, each producing five million metric tonnes per annum of liquefied natural gas (20 MMTPA total), with the potential of expansion in capacity up to 50 MMTPA.
“This is an important regional and strategic win for both joint venture parent companies,” said Peter Oosterveer, Fluor’s Energy & Chemicals Group president.
“The team leverages the combined strengths of JGC’s industry-leading LNG experience with Fluor’s 50-plus year reputation for executing large complex projects in sub-Saharan Africa.”
Fluor will book the contract in the first quarter 2013, while the first LNG cargo is targeted for 2018.

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The project is being carried out on behalf Canadian-Mozambican consortium, Anadarko Moçambique Area 1, consisting of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation {36.5%}, Mitsui E&P Mozambique Area 1 {20%}, Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos {15%}, BPRL Ventures Mozambique B.V. {10%}, Videocon Mozambique Rovuma 1 Limited {20%} and PTT Exploration & Production {8.5%}.

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American independent Anadarko took the second major step towards a Four Train, 20MMTPA LNG plant from Offshore Mozambique on Tuesday January 8, 2013.

The company’s award of a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to a Joint Venture vehicle comprising Fluor and JGC comes two weeks after it reached Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Eni, establishing foundational principles for the coordinated development of the common natural gas reservoirs spanning both Mozambique’s Offshore Area 1 (operated by Anadarko) and Offshore Area 4 (operated by Eni). Anadarko targets the first LNG cargo for 2018.

The facility will be located in the Cabo Delgado province, 2 000 km north-east of Mozambique’s capital, Maputo. Anadarko discovered massive reservoirs of gas in the Indian Ocean offshore Mozambique in early 2010. Eni arrived later, continuing the luck in a different block. Both companies are on record as saying that the reservoirs are some of the largest discoveries in their portfolios in over 10 years.

New York listed Flour and Japanese firm JGC have a 50-50 partnership in the JV that won the FEED contract. They say they have “ brought together a talented and experienced team that leverages the combined strengths of JGC’s industry-leading LNG experience with Fluor’s fifty-plus year reputation for executing large complex projects in sub-Saharan Africa.”

The FEED will deliver designs for the initial phase of the project, which will consist of four trains, each capable of producing five-million tons a year of liquefied natural gas (LNG), culminating in 20-million metric tons a year. The project has the potential to expand to a capacity of about 50-million metric tons a year of LNG.

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Anadarko gears up on Mozambique LNG

Anadarko gears up on Mozambique LNG

Mozambique to join Qatar and Australia LNG exporters

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (Anadarko) and its partners Mitsui E&P, BPRL Ventures Mozambiques, Videocon Mozambique, PTTEP after acquiring Cove Energy, and Emprecia Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH), may propel Mozambique among the largest LNG exporting countries with Qatar and Australia with their MozambiqueLNG project.

With estimated $15 billion capital expenditure, AnadarkoLNG project may change Mozambique status in a couple of years.

Anadarko and its partners signed their first Exploration and Production Concession Contract (EPCC) withMozambique Government in 2006.

According to this contract Anadarko would explore theArea 1 of the Rovuma basin in northern Strait of Mozambique.

In 2010, the Barquentine discovery was revealing 5 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas recoverable reserves.

Since then, the appraisal campaign implementd byAnadarko in the Area 1 of the Rovuma basin went through ballooning discoveries with Lagosta, Camarao, Bargentine-3 and Lagosta-3 wells.

In the zone called Properidade of about 260 square kilometers, Anadarko identified 17 to 30 tcf recoverable reserves out of 30 to 50 tcf of reserves in place of natural gas.

In 2012, Anadarko repeated the exercise in the Golfinho and Atum complexes which at the end of the appraisal campaign appeared to be same and to hold 10 to 30 tcf of recoverable reserves from 18 to 55 tcf natural gas reserves in place.

In a couple of years of exploration Anadarko and its partners Mitsui, BPRL Ventures, Videocon, PTTEP andENH came to head 100 tcf of natural gas reserves.

Considering this outstanding success, Anadarko and its partners decided to initiate a preliminary front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) for the construction of two LNG Trains of 5 million t/y each.

Anadarko awarded pre-FEED to KBR and Technip

In August  2011, Anadarko and its patners,  Mitsui, BPRL Ventures, Videocon, PTTEP and ENH awarded apreliminary front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) contract to KBR and Technip.

According to this preliminary front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) contract, KBR and Technip are developing the conceptual study around:

 - Offshore Floating Production Unit

 - Subsea production wells

 - Subsea pipelines to the shore

 - Two LNG Trains of 5 million t/y each

 - LNG storage tanks farm

 - Condensate storage tanks farm

 - LNG Export terminal

The offshore production system is designed in a flexible way to allow the tie-back of the natural gasproduction wells in a ray of 56 kilometers (35 miles).

With this flexible design Anadarko will be able to add new production wells at any time during the development phase to sustain the targeted plateau production during 30 years of production.

KBR and Technip are working on this preliminary front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) in consortium from KBR Houston office, in Texas, USA.

Anadarko to award EPC on competitive FEED

In respect with the size of the discoveries, Anadarko and its partners Mitsui, BPRL Ventures, Videocon, PTTEP and ENH, are willing to proceed on fast track, meaning that:

 - LNG Trains should be converted into competitive FEED contract in 2012

 - Final investment decision (FID) should be made in 2013

 - Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) should be awarded by conversion to the winner of the competitive FEED.

 - Construction work is expected to begin in 2014.

 - First LNG shipments are scheduled in 2018.

In parallel the Italian oil company Eni made similar discoveries in the Area 4 of the Rovuma basin. 

To develop its own LNG project would take Eni two years more than the on going Anadarko MozambiqueLNG project.

So both companies are in discussion to team up in Mozambique LNG project.

For Anadarko it would reduce the capital expenditure and facilitate the decision for the future expansions of the Mozambique LNG project while Eni would benefit from a short cut from exploration to commercial operation in a project to become its first priority on upstream.

Mozambique - Que Ver?

  

















    En un viaje a Mozambique se puede descansar en sus maravillosas playas o hacer submarinismo para intentar ver al enigmático tiburón ballena o a la manta gigante. Tofo es uno de los mejores lugares del país.

·        Otra de las joyas de Mozambique es el Parque Nacional da Gorongosa. En su territorio se pueden hacer safaris en busca de los ‘cinco grandes’ (león, leopardo, búfalo, elefante y rinoceronte).

· En la capital de Mozambique, Maputo, no hay que dejar de ver la antigua estación de trenes, decorada con mármol, maderas y cobre. Además son recomendables el jardín botánico, el Museo Nacional de Arte y el mercado municipal.

·        Disfrutar de las sabrosas recetas locales. Un plato muy típico de Mozambique es la carne de cabra con ron y verduras frescas. También son excelentes las ancas de rana, el pescado, el marisco y la fruta. No hay que dejar de probar el "peri peri", una salsa de chile picante con la que los mozambiqueños acompañan todos sus platos.

·        Intentar ver a uno de los últimos dugongos (mamífero marino) de Mozambique en las aguas de la bahía de Inhambane. Esta región costera que cuenta con hermosas playas es también famosa por el cultivo de anacardos, cítricos y cocos.

Adentrarse en Dhow (embarcaciones tradicionales) uno de los paraísos vírgenes de Mozambique, el archipiélago de Bazaruto. Declarado territorio protegido desde 1971 se compone de unas diez islas de magníficas playas, arrecifes de coral y algunos lagos interiores de agua dulce en los que se pueden ver aves autóctonas y mariposas de todos los colores.

·        Lejos de la costa nos adentramos en los Montes Chimanimani, a caballo entre Mozambique y Zimbabue, un territorio de bosques, praderas y altas cimas entre las que destaca el Monte Binga (2.436). El clima es mucho más fresco y la vida de sus pueblos permanece casi inalterada.

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   Practicar el senderismo en los alrededores del Monte Namuli, en la región de Gurué. Aprovechar los ratos de descanso para visitar plantaciones de té.

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           Pasar unos días en la Isla de Mozambique. Declarada patrimonio de la humanidad en 1997 cuenta con maravillosos edificios coloniales como la Iglesia de San Antonio.

·        Otra maravilla de Mozambique son las maravillosas islas del archipiélago de las Qurimbas.Recorrer la Isla de Ibo, antepuerta Islas Quirimbas, antiguo e importante centro de comercio y comunicaciones entre la cultura árabe, portuguesa y africana, hoy en día es un tranquilo puerto donde descubrir el trabajo de su importante comunidad de plateros.

·        El lago Niassa (nombre que se da en Mozambique al lago Malawi), situado al sur del Valle del Rift, es el tercero más grande de áfrica y el octavo del mundo. Su costa es un prodigio de belleza natural. En la misma región merece la pena adentrarse en la enorme reserva nació al de Niassa.

·        Tras disfrutar de las aventuras que nos proporcionará el interior de Mozambique, descansar unos días en Pemba, un agradable pueblo de playa en la costa norte del país.

   


























 Explorar el parque Nacional do Limpopo uno de los más importantes de Mozambique. Cuenta con unos 10.000 kilómetros cuadrados de extensión. Fronterizo con Zimbawe y Sudáfrica, configura conjuntamente con los parques de Kruger y Gonarezhou el Gran Limpopo Transfrontier Park, llamado Parque dela Paz, ya que los animales pueden cruzar libremente entre países. Entre su fauna salvaje destacan los elefantes, leones, rinocerontes, búfalos, leopardos, hipopótamos, cebras, antílopes y cocodrilos, así como multitud de otras especies exóticas.

   Pescar el luchador pez tigre en alguno de los lagos y ríos del país, una de las especies más luchadoras de agua dulce.

    Visitar las Islas de inhaca y Portuguesa cerca de Maputo

  Bailar en algún local de Maputo al son de la Marrabenta, un estilo de música urbano y moderno  originario de la capital de Mozambique.

  Comprar artesanía en alguno de los numerosos mercados del Mozambique. Es conocida la artesanía Makonde, de la zona norte del país, donde encontramos tallas en madera en que las personas son representadas con extraños rasgos alienígenas.