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WNE said on Friday it had secured the contract amid “fierce competition, leveraging its proven FLNG project experience, full-chain in-house technical capabilities spanning conceptual design to EPCIC delivery, and highly efficient pre-engineered FLNG design solutions.”
The firm did not say who awarded the contract or the deal’s price tag.
Located approximately 120 kilometers off Suriname’s coast, the FLNG facility will tap into the Sloanea gas field, at a water depth of around 450 meters, WNE said.
Moreover, the facility will be able to receive the feed gas from the subsea production system, process the stream to produce LNG and condensate for domestic and export to the international market.
Wison said the study could serve as the basis for a front-end engineering design (FEED) study, accelerating Suriname’s energy independence as it emerges as a strategic hub for offshore gas development.
In August 2024, Malaysian energy giant Petronas announced that it will explore developing a standalone FLNG project in Suriname’s offshore Block 52.
Petronas achieved success in Suriname with the Sloanea-2 appraisal well in Block 52 which was drilled in June the same year.
This accomplishment has bolstered Petronas’ prospects in the basin and opens the possibility of developing a standalone FLNG project at the field in the future, it said at the time.
Wison’s FLNG business
WNE is currently building Eni’s FLNG Nguya, which will work in Congo.
The company won a contract from Italy’s Eni in December 2022 to build the 380 meters long 2.4 mtpa FLNG.
In addition, WNE is also building Genting’s 1.2 mtpa FLNG, which will work in Indonesia.
In June 2024, Wison and Genting’s two subsidiaries, Genting Oil & Gas and Layar Nusantara Gas, entered into an EPCIC (engineering, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning) contract for the Genting FLNG project.
Besides these projects, Papua New Guinea’s national oil and gas company Kumul Petroleum awarded a pre-FEED contract to WNE for Papua New Guinea’s first FLNG.
Also, WNE secured a FEED contract for Ace Gas & FLNG’s project in Nigeria.