Honghua Group Ltd. has let a $12-million front-end engineering and design contract to Wood PLC for its LNG platform development in the Gulf of Mexico’s West Delta area.
The main objective of the FEED is to finalize the design of what Honghua is calling the world’s first offshore platform-based natural gas liquefaction and storage facility. Wood recently completed the pre-FEED for this project.
Wood’s scope of work includes the onshore gas pretreatment plant configuration and layouts, general utilities, feed gas processing and compression, and transportation and delivery via repurposed pipelines from the existing onshore Toca and Venice, La., facilities to the LNG facility 10 miles offshore.
Once completed, expected to be in 2020, gas from the Permian basin in Texas will be transported to the offshore platform where it will be liquefied, stored, and exported globally.
The facility will be designed to produce as much as 4.2 million tonnes/year of LNG and to store 300,000 cu m of LNG.
The FEED is being conducted in collaboration with EnTX GasTek Global Ltd., Baker Hughes, and Braemar Technical Services.