Texas LNG announced that it has selected Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd. and KBR Inc. to provide the company with pre-Final Investment Decision (“pre-FID”) Detailed Engineering and post-Final Investment Decision (“post-FID”) Engineering, Procurement & Construction (“EPC”) services for its proposed 4 million tonnes per annum (“MTA”) LNG export facility.
Samsung Engineering, technical partner of Texas LNG, has already completed the Conceptual Study, Pre-Front End Engineering Design (“Pre-FEED”) and FEED for the Texas LNG Project, culminating in over 200,000 engineering-man hours.
The Texas LNG Project design concept envisions constructing modular designed and pre-fabricated liquefaction trains using proven technology and standardized components in a controlled shipyard environment to reduce overall project costs, reduce complex onshore civil construction works, minimize local onsite environmental impacts, and minimize commissioning costs during permanent installation.
KBR has experience with the proven and robust APCI AP-C3MR™ technology used in most world LNG operating liquefaction facilities, and which Texas LNG has chosen for its liquefaction plant design.
Samsung Engineering and KBR will focus on value engineering and optimization for the proposed 4 MTA export facility to be built in two 2 MTA phases. Texas LNG aims to be among the lowest cost US LNG projects and pass savings to its LNG customers.
Pre-FID Detailed Engineering, expected to begin this year, will include further design and schedule optimization, identification of long lead items and early works commitments, early preparation of purchase orders, and all due diligence in relation to technical commercial and contractual matters.
Executive Vice President and CMO of Samsung Engineering, Jae Hoon Choi, stated: “We want to firmly establish our competitiveness in LNG and have successfully completed the Texas LNG FEED in 2016. We’ve formed a multidisciplinary LNG task force consisting of LNG liquefaction process engineers, modularization specialists, and cost and schedule experts. Samsung Engineering and KBR will execute an EPC with Texas LNG and deliver a high-quality LNG plant at a world competitive price.”
Final Investment Decision for the development of the Texas LNG liquefaction project is expected in 2018.
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