The Golar Gimi FLNG system, being developed for BP’s Tortue Ahmeyim task in Senegal/Mauritania offshore location, is readied to cruise away following month.
According to Golar LNG, entrusted with supplying the system, the FLNG Gimi conversion functions 97% total. Golar LNG stated that FLNG Gimi was arranged to leave the lawn in September 2023.
„Final checks, accumulating and sea tests will certainly after that occur in Singapore in advance of her trip to Mauritania and Senegal, anticipated to begin around completion of September/ very early October,“ Golar LNG said.
Contractual Dispute
Golar LNG also said that a contract interpretation dispute between Golar and BP regarding parts of the pre-commissioning contractual cash flows remains, and arbitration proceedings have been initiated.
“This does not impact the wider execution of the 20-year project that is expected to unlock around $3 billion of Adjusted EBITDA Backlog to Golar, equivalent to Annual Adjusted EBITDA of around $151 million,” Golar LNG stated.
Golar and BP in February 2019 authorized a 20-year bargain for the charter of a drifting melted gas (FLNG) system, Gimi, and Golar after that entrusted Keppel with the conversion of the LNG service provider Gimi right into an FLNG system. Golar at the time stated that the building of FLNG Gimi was anticipated to set you back about $1.3 billion.
Once supplied, the Gimi FLNG will certainly be utilized for the growth of the Mauritania and Senegal cross-border overseas gas growth Tortue/Ahmeyim, among Africa’s inmost overseas tasks at 2,000 meters listed below the sea’s surface area.
The task will certainly generate gas from an ultra-deepwater subsea system and mid-water floating manufacturing, storage space, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which will certainly refine the gas, getting rid of larger hydrocarbon elements.
Gas will certainly after that be moved to the GIMI FLNG at a nearshore center situated on the Mauritania and Senegal maritime boundary. The FLNG center is developed to supply circa 2.5 million statistics lots of LNG per year generally. Total gas sources in the area are approximated to be about 15 trillion cubic feet.
Kosmos Energy uncovered the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim area in 2015, and BP authorized onto the task via a contract with Kosmos in 2016.
BP is the task driver. The companions approved the initial stage of the task growth in December 2018. The vessel had actually been arranged for shipment in 2022, but an agreement was reached in October 2020 to delay the delivery due to the coronavirus outbreak.
