GE technology for floating LNG facility
GE Oil & Gas will supply a gas turbine-driven compressor train and mechanical drive technology to Malaysia’s national oil and gas company, Petronas, for a second floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility being developed off the coast of East Malaysia.
GE also supplied turbomachinery solutions for Petronas’ first FLNG, which is currently being constructed in South Korea.
As part of its contract, GE will supply four of its PGT25+G4 gas turbine generator systems and two nitrogen trains featuring two LM6000-PF+ 2BCL907 aeroderivative gas turbines in mechanical drive mode. The company said this is the first time an LM6000 gas turbine is being applied to an FLNG project.
The new project will enable offshore LNG production in certain smaller gas fields that are lacking pipelines to an onshore LNG plant. The second FLNG plant will support the growing demand for natural gas in peninsular Malaysia, where many power plants and commercial customers are located, GE said.
GE’s equipment will be manufactured at the company’s assembly facilities in Florence and Massa, Italy. Commercial operation is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2017. Once operational in the first quarter of 2018, the second FLNG facility will produce about 1.36 million tonnes/yr of LNG.