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中集旗下TGE中标揭阳中海油LNG储罐项目
China’s top offshore oil services contractor Offshore Oil Engineering Corporation (COOEC) has grabbed a deal from its sister company CNOOC Gas & Power to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for a liquefied natural gas import terminal in Jieyang in the east of Guangdong province.
The deal marks the onset of involvement by the traditional offshore contractor — headed by president Zhou Xuezhong — in LNG terminal construction.
The workscope involves building the 2 million tonnes per annum terminal by the end of next year as well as an export pipeline spanning less than 100 kilo metres. The second phase calls for doubling the capacity to 4 million tonnes per annum by 2020.
However, in part due to lack of experience, the deal to build the storage tanks has gone to TGE Gas Engineering, which is 60% owned by Chinese container fabrication specialist CIMC.
The first phase calls for building three 160,000 cubic metre storage tanks. Two more such tanks with similar size will be added in the second phase.
The berth will be able to accommodate LNG tankers with capacities of 80,000 to 267,000 cubic metres.
Sources said MaisonWorley Parsons, the China outfit of Australia’s engineering house WorleyParsons has won the project management contract for the terminal construction.
The LNG imported at Jieyang will be marketed largely to town gas users in the province’s cities of Shantou, Jieyang, Chaozhou, Shanwei and Meizhou. Known as the Yuedong LNG project, the Jieyang terminal is the seventh of its kind being operated or built by China National Offshore Oil Corperation (CNOOC) in China.
According to CNOOC Gas & Power, the Yuedong LNG project will cost 10.3 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) to build.
CNOOC’s other six terminals comprise three under operation in Shenzhen, Fujian and Shanghai and three under construction in Ningbo, Zhuhai and Hainan.
Last month, Japan’s IHI was awarded an EPC job from CNOOC Gas & Power to build the Hainan terminal.
Due on line in August 2014, the Hainan terminal will have a capacity of 2 million tpa, which could be expanded to 3 million tpa in 2016.
Published: 09 September 2011 01:47 GMT |
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