FLNG from front-end studies up to smooth execution

«FLNG from front-end studies up to smooth execution»
By Dominique GADELLE – VP Upstream / LNG
TECHNIP
GEP-AFTP
SPE-France
www.gep-aftp.com
www.spefrance.org
Contact : Philippe Perreau
Président : Jean-Marc Dumas
Mercredi 11 mars 2015 à 16h30
6 – 8 Allée de l’Arche – Paris La Défense
Le GEP-AFTP en liaison avec la Section Française de la SPE
(Society of Petroleum Engineers) est heureux de vous inviter à la conférence
«FLNG from front-end studies up to smooth execution»
À l’issue de cette conférence, un cocktail sera offert aux participants
- Abstract FLNG, the new concept for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) production on a floating
unit, has been extensively studied in the last decade. The LNG world changed when
on May 30th, 2011, the Technip & Samsung Consortium was given notice to proceed
by Shell with the construction of the Prelude FLNG, the first floating liquefied natural
gas facility (FLNG) in the world, to be located offshore Australia.
This announcement was followed, about one year later, by the Final Investment
Decision (FID) taken by PETRONAS to launch the Engineering, Procurement,
Construction, Integration and Commissioning of the first PETRONAS FLNG (FLNG1).
The execution of this project was awarded to the Technip & DSME Consortium. Since
that period many FLNG projects have been proposed by IOCs and NOCs as well as
Utilities and Shipping Companies.
For such innovative project, performing sound conceptual studies is of the prime
importance. During these studies the main features of the FLNG is screened and
major selections are made that will impact the project ROI (return on investment)
and drive all the subsequent development phases from engineering to operation.
Such selections are not only limited to conventional topics like the liquefaction
scheme, CCS type, turret location, main utilities, refrigerant compressor drivers, …
but shall also cover non-obvious items like optimum process efficiency in the offshore
context, the constraints of no flaring policy on single train operation and the tradeoff between weight and process optimizations.
Secondly, in addition to the engineering development required on Projects of this
kind, including the selection of the most suitable processes, the modularization and
the requirements for layout optimization and weight reduction, the experience of
working on FLNG projects from conceptual stage up to Engineering, Procurement,
Construction, Installation and Commissioning (EPCIC) allows to investigate and to
develop fit-for-purpose solutions during these last steps.
Indeed installing an LNG plant on a floating barge brings several issues for which
solutions developed on FPSOs have to be further adapted for this application to
overcome the new challenges faced and implement the appropriate solutions.
Lastly, the options for project execution including emerging technology, tends to
favor the desirability of having the execution Contractor involved in FEED. With this
objective in mind the Owner still has several options including Pre-FEED or FEED
design competitions and early Contractor selection with all the project phases then
executed by a single Contactor. However these options do not bring the same level
of confidence in terms of Project quality, cost and Schedule.
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Dominique GADELLE, Vice President Upstream / LNG, Technip
He has more than 20 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry,
covering technology development and different engineering
phases from basic design to EPC contracts, technical and
commercial proposals and multiple business related activities.
He has been Process Manager of the LNG Department of Technip
Paris office for 5 years. Dominique was previously the Deputy Vice-President of the
Process and Technologies Division. He is currently the Vice President for the Gas
Monetization within Technip France and his field of activity covers managing all the
company’s Business activities dealing with Gas Monetization (Onshore and Offshore).
He has presented several papers dealing with NGL and LNG at international
conferences. He also gives lectures on these subjects in process engineering schools. He
received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Université de Technologie de
Compiègne, France
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