Chinese Honghua Group has awarded a $12 million front-end engineering design (FEED) contract to Wood for its liquefied natural gas (LNG) platform development in the West Delta area of the Gulf of Mexico.
The main objective of the FEED is to finalize the design of the offshore platform-based natural gas liquefaction and storage facility.
Wood, the company created through the acquisition of Amec Foster Wheeler, recently completed the pre-FEED for what the company states is the world’s first such facility.
Wood’s scope of work includes the onshore gas pre-treatment plant configuration and layouts, general utilities, feed gas processing and compression, and transportation and delivery via repurposed pipelines from the existing onshore Toca and Venice, Louisiana, facilities to the LNG facility 10 miles offshore.
Once complete, around 2020, gas from the Texas Permian basin will be transported to the offshore platform where it will be liquefied, stored and ultimately exported globally.
Wood will compile and develop the necessary technical documentation for a Deep Water Port (DWP) permit application to United States Maritime Administration (MARAD). This includes designing onshore, pipelines and offshore elements of the facility in sufficient detail to satisfy the MARAD.
Wood will update and complete the preliminary design of the full offshore gas liquefaction facility. The facility will be designed to produce up to 4.2 million tons per year of LNG and to store 300,000 cubic meters of LNG.
The FEED is being conducted in collaboration with EnTX GasTek Global, Baker Hughes, a GE Company, and Braemar Technical Services (Braemar), the owner’s engineer on the LNG 21 project. Braemar is also leading the design and development of the FSP LNG storage system.