The Mozambique Rovuma Venture (MRV), a joint venture of ExxonMobil Corp., Eni, and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), has let a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract to Technip Energies and JGC Corp. for the Rovuma LNG project at Palma in the Afungi peninsula, Northeast of Mozambique.
The LNG project will consist of an LNG plant with a total production capacity of 18 million tonnes/year (tpy), comprising 12 fully modularized 1.5 million tpy LNG trains.
The Rovuma LNG plant design will feature electric-driven LNG trains instead of gas turbines, reducing greenhouse gases emissions and will include prefabricated and standardized modules to be assembled at the project site in Mozambique.
In August, ExxonMobil noted the official beginning of the FEED phase of Rovuma LNG, which it said is expected to take around 16 months to complete. It is the last step before a final investment decision (FID) is taken on the project, the operator said.
The Rovuma LNG project is expected to produce, liquefy, and market natural gas from reservoirs of the Area 4 block of the offshore Rovuma basin. The deepwater block contains more than 85 tcf of natural gas.
Area 4 is operated by MRV, a joint venture owned by ExxonMobil, Eni, and CNPC, which holds a 70% interest in the Area 4 exploration and production concession contract; in addition to MRV, Galp, KOGAS and Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos EP. Each holds a 10% interest in Area 4.