PFLNG Satu to Load 1st Cargo 'Soon'

Petronas' first floating LNG facility, PFLNG Satu, will load its first cargo soon, a senior official from the company has told NGW.

PFLNG Satu became the world’s first FLNG unit to achieve its 'first gas' milestone November 14 from the Kanowit gas field, offshore Sarawak in Malaysia. The unit started liquefying gas in December. The official told NGW in November that its first cargo was expected to be shipped in 1Q 2017.

The FLNG unit extracts natural gas via a flexible subsea pipeline for the liquefaction, production, storage and offloading processes of LNG at the offshore gas field. It can be redeployed to multiple locations to better access marginal and stranded gas fields of Malaysia. With a processing capacity of 1.2mn mt/yr, PFLNG Satu operates at water depths between 70 metres to 200 metres.

The official told NGW by email this week that most of the cargoes will be for domestic requirement.

Shardul Sharma