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WNE announced on Monday that the two firms have signed a strategic cooperation agreement.
According to the firm, this collaboration will leverage Supcon’s advanced AI and industrial robotics technologies to develop intelligent FLNG and low-carbon FPSO solutions.
“It aims to achieve autonomous facility operations empowered by AI, integrating an “intelligent core” into FLNG/low-carbon FPSO systems, thereby providing “Chinese solutions” for global clean energy,” the firm said.
The two firms recognize AI as a “critical enabler for achieving intelligent, unmanned (or minimally manned), and highly efficient low-carbon operations in FLNG and FPSO facilities.”
WNE said the two firms will establish a joint technical team to share resources and data, tackling the challenges of applying industrial AI in harsh and complex offshore environments.
The goal is to co-develop core solutions with proprietary intellectual property.
Wison’s FLNG business
In April this year, WNE signed a detailed feasibility study deal for a newbuild FLNG facility in Suriname’s offshore Block 52.
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.
In August 2024, Malaysian energy giant Petronas announced that it will explore developing a standalone FLNG project in Suriname’s offshore Block 52.
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-meter-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.