KUALA LUMPUR: Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) marked another milestone in floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) technologies after it delivered its 50th LNG cargo from its first FLNG facility, the Petronas Floating LNG SATU (PFLNG SATU).
The milestone cargo was successfully loaded on Sept 25 onto the Seri Cemara LNG carrier operated by MISC Bhd
for shipment to Taiwan.
Petronas described the 50th cargo as a significant achievement for Petronas and demonstrates the viability of offshore gas production with FLNG solutions.
The first FLNG cargo was produced from the Kanowit gas field, offshore Sarawak in 2017.
PFLNG SATU was also the world’s first FLNG facility to successfully produce LNG from two remote gas fields when it was relocated from the Kanowit gas field to its current location at the Kebabangan gas field, offshore Sabah, in 2019.
Petronas vice president of LNG Assets, Abang Yusuf Abang Puteh said this milestone cargo from PFLNG SATU attests to the world-class reliability of its first FLNG facility and “more importantly, the commitment of our workforce to provide an uninterrupted supply of LNG to our customers”.
The PFLNG SATU is designed to operate at water depths of up to 200 meters with a production capacity of 1.2 million tonnes of LNG per annum.
Currently, Petronas is the only global energy company in the world that owns and operates two FLNG facilities.
