Lloyd’s Register Secures LNG Canada Contract

UK-based Lloyd’s Register (LR) said April 7 it has secured a 55-month contract to perform third party verification and Canadian Registration Number (CRN) services at the Anglo-Dutch Shell-led LNG Canada project in Kitimat, on BC’s northern coast.

The contract, won through a competitive bidding process, is for verification and CRN services during pre-commissioning, commissioning and start-up phases of the C$40bn (US$28.6bn) project.

Third party verification services will ensure that individual components have been constructed and tested in accordance with the quality assurance programme expected by Liquefied Natural Gas Facility Regulation (LNGFR). This will see LR verifying the project quality assurance programme for the design and procurement phases, followed by the inspection test plans and inspection test records during the project construction and commissioning phases.

LR will also validate technical integrity verification plans for engineering, fabrication and commissioning, and the Change Management Plan (CMP) for the design and construction phases and will provide additional audit and engineering services at site to verify the compliance of safety critical equipment and systems across the entire facility. This will align with audit activities performed by provincial regulators.

For the CRN services, LR will use a BC Alternative Safety Approach (ASA) to demonstrate compliance with power, boiler, pressure vessel and refrigeration safety regulations.

LR has recently been awarded similar contracts for two other pending Canadian LNG projects, Bear Head LNG and Goldboro LNG, both in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia.