The consortium involving Technip Energies will not be in the lead to build the largest Liquefied Natural Gas facilities in Africa.
The award of the Letter of Intent (LoI) for engineering and limited procurement services to construct ExxonMobil’s 18.6Million tonnes per annum (18.6MMTPA) Rovuma LNG facilities in the Afungi Peninsula in Cabe Delgado, Mozambique, went to Saipem, McDermott, Daewoo Engineering & Construction and China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corporation (CPECC)-namely the SMDC joint venture.
The Rovuma LNG plant project is expected to include 12 liquefaction modules, fed by gas from the huge, deepwater Mamba complex in Area 4.
The American contractor, McDermott, a key partner in the SMDC Joint venture, says that engineering of the project will be executed by McDermott from its London, UK, and Gurgaon, India, offices, with project management seconded to a team based in Milan, Italy.
“Having successfully executed front-end engineering and design (FEED) for Rovuma LNG, we are well positioned to advance the project into its next phase,” MccDermott says in a media statement.
ExxonMobil is widely expected to take Final Investment Decision (FID) on the project in 2026. The onshore plant will harvest a large fraction of the 75Trillion cubic feet of gas stored in reservoirs located in >2,000metre water depth, in the Indian Ocean. The several postponements in the schedule have been to allow for further security stabilization in the Cabo Delgado region and to finalize project adjustments, according to ExxonMobil.
