Views: Visits 4 By Sebastine Obasi Nigeria’s local content has received a boost, following the signing of preliminary Front End Engineering Design, Pre-FEED, agreement as an indigenous firm, UTM Offshore Limited, with Japan Gas Corporation, JGC, to establish a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas, FLNG, the first of its kind in Nigeria. The Pre-FEED scope shall be completed within four months from commencement date. Also, UTM has engaged Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) UK to provide owner’s engineering services on the project. KBR shall provide due diligence on the JGC scope by conducting a third-party review of all deliverables from JGC during the Pre-FEED.
First floating LNG project: UTM Offshore, JGC, KBR sign Pre-FEED contracts
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By Sebastine Obasi
Nigeria’s local content has received a boost, following the signing of preliminary Front End Engineering Design, Pre-FEED, agreement as an indigenous firm, UTM Offshore Limited, with Japan Gas Corporation, JGC, to establish a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas, FLNG, the first of its kind in Nigeria.
The Pre-FEED scope shall be completed within four months from commencement date.
Also, UTM has engaged Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) UK to provide owner’s engineering services on the project.
KBR shall provide due diligence on the JGC scope by conducting a third-party review of all deliverables from JGC during the Pre-FEED.
By Emmanuel Addeh
An indigenous firm, UTM Offshore Limited, has signed a deal with Japan Gas Corporation (JGC), a leading international Engineering Design, Procurement and Construction (EPC) firm, to establish a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility, the first of its kind in Nigeria.
This followed the issuance of licence by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to establish the FLNG facility.
UTM Offshore Limited took a major step to actualise the project yesterday, signing virtually, a landmark preliminary front end engineering design (Pre-FEED) agreement with JGC.
According to the agreement, the Pre-FEED scope would be completed within four months from commencement date.