firm Bechtel. The plant, Angola LNG, located in Soyo and which was developed
by a consortium of Sonangol, Chevron,
BP, Total, and ENI, provided yet another
opportunity for coatings contractors.
For example, German firm EUROPIPE
worked on a contract awarded French energy major Total for the laying of pipes for a
pipeline project starting from Block 17, operated by the oil explorer and producer with
a 40 percent interest, as part of a network
supplying gas to the Angolan LNG plant.
EUROPIPE, which says it specializes
in large-diameter welded steel pipes for
extreme applications, has supplied nearly 20,000 tons of pipe for the $9 billion
LNG project, from its manufacturing line
at Mülheim mill. Mulheim Pipecoatings
provided the inside and protective outside coatings for the pipes linking natural
gas fields to the Angolan LNG plant.
And in Mozambique, Italian natural
gas producer Eni’s affiliate, Eni East Africa
SpA, announced in October it has awarded the KD Consortium, consisting of KBR
and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine
Engineering Company, Ltd, a front end
engineering design (FEED) contract for
the country’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility for the Coral South
Development Project in the country.
The company said with the award,
“the KD consortium will be one of three
consortia competing for the engineering,
procurement, construction, installation
and commissioning (EPCIC) contract to
build the new floating LNG facility for
Eni East Africa and its partners to de-
velop the hydrocarbon discovery in the
Rovuma Basin in Mozambique.”
“Developing a cost-effective solution
for the first FLNG vessel in Mozambique
was the rationale for developing the KD
consortium,” said Stuart Bradie, KBR presi-
dent and CEO. “The consortium allows us
to leverage the strength of both companies
to provide the client the best choice for the
EPCIC portion of the project.”
The KD Consortium will provide
the FEED for the Topsides, Hull and
Subsea for the Floating LNG facility. The
Topsides and Turret are being designed in
KBR’s Leatherhead office while the hull
and marine system are being engineered
in DSME’s facility in Seoul, South Korea,
KBR said in a statement.
The FLNG facility will be a turret
moored double-hull floating vessel, on
which gas receiving, processing, liquefaction,
and offloading facilities will be mounted to-
gether with LNG and condensate storage.
Although it has not been confirmed
which company will be contracted to pro-
vide protective coatings for the new FLNG,
the development of the vessel adds to a new
a growing segment in Africa’s gas sub sector.
A few international coating compa-
nies have benefitted from Africa’s grow-
ing natural gas sub sector and have been
involved in major coating contracts.
For example, UK’s Promat was contract-
ed by heavy equipment manufacturer IHI
Group, which won a contract to develop a
new LNG train by Algeria’s Sonatrach, to
supply its Cafco FENDOLITE MII system
as a primary part of the scheme to protect
the LNG facility near Arzew city.
The capacity of the Arzew GL2-Z,
which has a design capacity of 370.8 bil-
lion cubic feet/year, is being expanded to
meet the increasing world demand for
natural gas supplies.
According to Promat, “Cafco
FENDOLITE MII is the industry-leading,
passive fire protection system and has
been used to protect steel structures and
vessel skirts from fire attack at Arzew.”
The more than 1,500 tons of Cafco
FENDOLITE MII was used on the project
and applied by the Franco-Algerian fire
protection specialists Travomed– Prezioso
JV according to a statement by Promat.
“Promat was selected to supply Cafco
FENDOLITE MII for this project because
they provide unequalled service, quality,
fitness for purpose, whole life value and
availability that has been demonstrated
in service worldwide over 30 years,” the
company said in a statement.
In Nigeria, leading manufacturer, de-
veloper and distributor of paints and coat-
ings, Berger Paints Nigeria Plc, has been
awarded a contract to supply coatings for
two new Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas
(NLNG) carriers to be built by Hyundai
Heavy Industries in Korea. The Berger
Paints contract is for the supply of 83,000
litres of paint valued at $1 million.
“Berger Paints products are in compli-
ance with global standards and are at par
with those produced by KCC in Korea,
which will be used by Hyundai Heavy
Industries in the coating of two new
NLNG vessels,” said Henry Agbodjan,
head of shipping at NLNG in early
December. KCC Corporation is a partner
of Berger Paints Nigeria Plc.
More Nigerian paints firms have also
got a share of the slice of the project to
supply six LNG vessels to NLNG.
Bonny Gas Transport (BGT) Limited,
a subsidiary of NLNG awarded a con-
tract for the building of the new vessels
to South Korean shipbuilders, Samsung
Heavy Industries, and Hyundai Heavy
Industries. The contract provided a local
content clause for Nigerian companies to
participate in exporting materials includ-
ing protective coatings for the project.
NLNG had earlier confirmed that
Paints and Coatings Manufacturers
Nigeria (PCMN) Limited had also been
picked to supply up to 388,000 liters of
paint to Samsung Heavy Industries ship-
yard in South Korea.
Other material suppliers for the LNG
vessels include Metec West Africa, which
has exported 210 tonnes of anodes, valued
at $2.5 million and Nexans Kabelmetal
Limited, which shipped 180,000 meters
of cables valued at more than $1 million
to the South Korean shipyards.
“By the end of this project, NLNG
would have helped the concerned local
companies acquire the necessary capacity
and know how to successfully compete
with peers from all around the developed
world,” said NLNG.
“In the past, Berger Paints only export-
ed paints to Ghana. This recent export of
our products to South Korea is a major
milestone for our company, and we are
very excited for this remarkable opportu-
nity,” said Berger Paints’ managing direc-
tor and chief executive officer, Tor Nygard.
The International Gas Union says
LNG floating systems “are proposed to
be used in many more countries, includ-
ing several in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
“Although many challenges face the
development of LNG infrastructure, the
speed and relatively lower cost of bringing a floating import terminal online may
improve the outlook for these regions,”
said IGU in its 2014 LNG report. CW
