Crondall Energy has won more work on Ophir Energy’s Fortuna (32/11) FLNG project in West Africa from a consortium of Aker Solutions and Subsea 7.

The award is to provide technical support for the FEED and includes all aspects of the subsea design.

The Fortuna project, located in Block R in Equatorial Guinea, is a phased deepwater development producing gas to an FLNG facility.

The deal extends Crondall Energy’s involvement with the Fortuna project, which has previously included early field development concept work and conceptual engineering of both the subsea and FLNG facilities.

Golar LNG’s Hilli (32/9) FLNG project remains on schedule and on budget, the company said.

During the second quarter, sponson construction, assembly, blasting and painting work progressed. Fabrication of piping and pipe supports continued and good progress was made with the repair and life extension work for the vessel.

Significant activities undertaken during the last quarter included addressing specific design and operation issues, and the overall project at the end of July is said to be 60% complete.

Meanwhile, the Gandria conversion contract is on target to become effective by the end of September.

Golar also has placed an order for a further floating storage regasification newbuild with Samsung Heavy Industries. This new vessel will be a sister vessel to the Golar Tundra with LNG storage of 170,000 sq m and a continuous regasification capacity of 401,000 sq cm/d.

Petronas has given the nod to a revised field development plan for the Ophir oil field in Block PM 305 offshore Peninsular Malaysia. Work on the $90 million project is set to begin immediately.

The field is being developed by Ophir Production Sdn Bhd, a joint-venture company comprising Octanex (50%), Scomi Energy Services (30%) and Vestigo Petroleum (20%).

Octanex said it has optimised project costs and shaved 30% off the development due to reduced industry costs.

Facilities for the Ophir oil field include three production wells, a wellhead platform and a leased FPSO vessel.

Japan's Inpex Corp. and partner Shell have tripled the size of the deepwater Abadi (31/19) gas field FLNG project offshore Indonesia.

They have submitted a revised PDO to authorities for the use of a FLNG plant with a processing capacity of 7.5 mtpa compared to the original plans for 2.5 mtpa capacity.

The project is now entering the FEED stage and will likely be a copy of Shell’s giant Prelude FLNG vessel. The large scale development replaces the original phased development of the field.

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