GE Lands More Coral FLNG Work

(Corrects description of company)

US oilfield services company BHGE has secured a second major contract at the Eni-led Coral South floating liquefaction (FLNG) development, offshore Mozambique, it said August 30.

The contract was awarded in 2Q 2017 by a joint venture formed by TechnipFMC and JGC Corporation, the main Coral South contractor.

That second contract will allow BHGE to provide rotating equipment for the power and gas refrigeration process of the new FLNG facility. The order consists of four turbo-compression trains plus four turbo-generation units. Components for all eight will be manufactured at BHGE Nuovo Pignone facility in Florence, Italy, where the train will be assembled and tested at its Massa facility.

A third contract was also awarded to BHGE after the closing of the integration between GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes last July and it includes the supply of boil-off gas (BOG) and booster compressors able to operate at -180°C to re-liquefy excessive BOG evaporating out of the LNG storage tanks. 

The first Coral contract secured by BHGE was in June 2017 for the supply of subsea systems to be installed on the Coral South FLNG facility, not long before BHGE announced the completion of GE’s oil and gas business's takeover of Baker Hughes on July 3.

The US company said that Coral South FLNG's anticipated start-up is in mid-2022.  

Mark Smedley