Early last month, Malaysia’s Petronas has short-listed two shipbuilders and their contractor partners to build its second Floating LNG production unit (LNG-FPSO).
The company has selected a consortium of IHI, CB&I, MODEC and Toyo Engineering and the pairing of Samsung Heavy Industries with JGC.
And now the IHI-CB&I-MODEC-Toyo Engineering consortium is tipped to be chosen for the final contractor, well-informed sources say.
They add Samsung consortium has lost out in terms of pricing issue.
The front-end engineering & design (FEED) of a 1.5-million-tonnes-per-annum (mtpa) unit is being conducted. Petronas and partner Murphy Oil will develop the Rotan gasfield off East Malaysia with the 2nd FLNG facility.
An engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the job is due to be issued to one party next year. The floater is set to be in operation by 2016.
Earlier this year, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Technip scooped the business to design and build Petronas’s first FLNG, slightly smaller at 1.2 mtpa, with which it will develop its Kanowit reserves.