Major contracts confirm Technip's leadership
Floating LNG
Technip is a world leader in project management, engineering and construction for
the oil and gas industry.
With a global footprint, our talents constantly offer the most innovative technologies and
best solutions to our clients to optimize their investments and meet the world’s energy
challenges.
Our mission is to deliver safe, sustainable and quality projects across the world.
We operate in three main businesses:
Offshore
In the Offshore business, our activities include engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and installation of fixed and floating platforms.
We use a complete range of technological solutions to answer the challenges faced by our clients. We are leveraging our expertise in full-range of offshore facilities, as well as our strong know-how with added-value process skills and proprietary platform design.
Onshore
In the Onshore business, we deliver to our clients all the experience we have acquired for almost 60 years, combined with a large technology solutions portfolio. We are working on onshore facilities that the energy sector needs, in particular for oil and gas industry players. Technip is one of the global leaders for the refining business and petrochemical units. We also reinforced our position on project management consultancy (PMC) activities, by leveraging our expertise in the management of complex projects.
Subsea
In subsea hydrocarbon field development, Technip’s activities include the design, manufacture and installation of rigid and flexible subsea pipelines and umbilicals.
Thanks to our portfolio of technologies, industrial and operational assets on all
continents and a state-of-the art fleet, we offer a unique vertically integrated model in the industry.
Technip at a glance
As one of the world’s longest standing providers of project services
and technology to the LNG industry, we have long been active in
seeking solutions to enable the development of offshore LNG
TECHNIP offers an organisation whose combined
resources, experience, technology, skills, and
financial stability are second-to-none.
For an FLNG project development, Technip has
demonstrated its ability to act as main contractor
for the entire project from conception to
start-up.
Drawing on our experience in all component
areas, we are in a unique position to design
and deliver floating LNG facilities.
Leadership in oil and gas naval
architecture
We design and build complete offshore facilities in-house or in partnership.
Leadership in project execution
Our EPC culture ensures the success of our projects from conceptual and pre-FEED studies through to delivery and commissioning.
We have solid references in working in consortium with major shipyards under EPC lump sum contracts.
A pioneer and leader in liquefaction
Technip has been a leader in LNG for 50 years, with experience of all sizes of plant from peak shavers to the mega-trains in Qatar. Technip has contributed significantly to the state-of-the-art in LNG and maintains a portfolio of LNG technologies.
The world’s largest FPSO’s
Technip has delivered some of the world’s largest FPSO’s with integrated topside facilities of up to 37,000 tonnes.
Advanced technologies in cryogenic
transfer
Technip offers a fully qualified LNG transfer system with cryogenic flexible as its central component.
World leader in subsea field development
Technip is historically the world leader of the subsea market for the design, manufacture and installation of subsea flowlines, umbilicals and risers.
Complete
design flexibility
Building on the execution of the
world’s largest LNG facilities and
oil FPSO’s, Technip has the
capability to manage the design
and delivery of FLNG projects
A wide range of design options are available at conceptual stage:
Large production capacity: 1 to 6 Mtpa Overall storage up to 400,000 m3
Mixed refrigerant or N2 expansion liquefaction processes Modularised, safe and compact facilities
Turret moored for weathervaning or spread-moored Storm shut-ins / disconnections
Prismatic (SPB) or highly partitioned membrane LNG tanks
Agreement to strengthen FLNG collaboration
In December 2012, Shell and the Technip-Samsung Consortium signed an agreement to enhance collaboration on the design, engineering, procurement, construction and installation of future innovative FLNG solutions across a wide
range of opportunities in the future. For example, Shell’s FLNG Lean technology would be able to process additional gas and produce more LNG, opening up new business opportunities for countries looking to develop their gas resources.
ShELL
Generic FLNG
On July 28, 2009, two contracts were signed in Paris with Shell:
a master agreement with a consortium comprising Technip and Samsung for the design, construction and installation of multiple floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facilities over a period of up to fifteen years.
a contract with the same consortium for the execution of the front end engineering and design (FEED) for Shell's 3.6 Mtpa FLNG solution.
Prelude FLNG, Western Australia
On March 8, 2010 a contract was signed in Paris with Shell, covering the FEED elements specific to the Prelude project, taking into account the composition of the gas, local weather conditions and other site-specific factors.
On May 30, 2011, Shell gave notice to proceed with the detailed design and construction of Prelude, the first FLNG facility in the world.
On June 29, 2012, Shell awarded Technip a large subsea installation contract, including management of key interfaces with the hook-up and commissioning of the Prelude FLNG facility.
PETRONAS
Award date: February 2011 Client: Petronas and MISC Berhad Contractor: Technip, in
consortium with DSME
FEED contract for an FLNG unit, offshore Malaysia
Capacity: 1.2 Mtpa EPC contract awarded in
June 2012
Keel laying in January 2014 Hull launch in April 2014
FLNG is a true representation of
Technip's technological differentiation
through the integration of all our core
activities: LNG process, offshore
facilities and subsea infrastructure
FLNG solutions have the potential to place gas
liquefaction facilities directly over offshore gas
fields, thereby precluding the need for long
distance pipelines and extensive onshore
infrastructure.
This innovative alternative to traditional onshore
LNG plants provides a commercially attractive
and environmentally friendly approach for
monetisation of offshore gas fields.
Wave basin model tests - Scale:60 High efficiency offshore "reverse Brayton" type liquefaction process
LNG G NG
Process schemes
Improved processes have been developed by Technip’s process engineers to meet the requirements of the new context of Floating LNG, including:
Ideas for improving natural gas liquefaction
Gas condensate stabilisation producing a rich gas for direct liquefaction without LPG production
Production of high purity N2 from the natural gas
hull motions
The design of topside equipment requires the
collaboration of an entire team of naval architects, piping, process and equipment engineers, critical equipment suppliers, installation specialists and engineers skilled in advanced numerical modelling.
Accelerations are quantified and loads on mechanical equipment checked with vendors.
The effects of hull motions on gas/liquid separation in process equipment are studied, when necessary, with process licensors and suppliers.
Addressing FLNG challenges
Technip has strong technical skills in many of the areas critical to FLNG.
New tools and solutions have been developed or existing methods adapted to meet the specific needs of FLNG vessels operating in harsh environments.
Sloshing in a horizontal drum equipped with baffles
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Naval architecture
Naval Architects had to address several new challenges: Sheer size - larger than any existing FPSO
Harsh environmental conditions
Weathervaning systems suitable for the 10,000-year storm
LNG cryogenic transfer between two floating units in the open sea
Accommodating a wide range of LNG and LPG carriers The development of the FLNG/TMS solution for Shell Prelude was enabled by combining Technip's
marine/MetOcean expertise with that of Shell, SBM and Samsung.
Design solutions are helped by a series of two tests:
Wind tunnel tests to derive wind and current loads on
the FLNG with and without an LNG carrier present.
Wave basin model tests with FLNG and LNG carriers
covering:
Mooring in harsh, category 5 cyclone conditions Decay and motion response tests
Berthing and mooring and the equipment required between the two vessels
The loads generated when towing these large units
FLNG projects have an increased number of design and construction interfaces. To mitigate the risk from poor management, Technip has developed and is using a specific Interface Management Tool - IMT, that allows full
Interface management
Safety - Risks from cryogenic and
hazardous fluids
The challenge for the safe layout of an FLNG facility is the large process area required in a reduced footprint leading to relatively high congestion and tall modules.
Our risk-based approach assesses potential consequences and associated frequencies to derive appropriate
safeguards and mitigation measures. Among process risks (fire and explosion) and non-process risks (ship collision, dropped object, etc.), the hazards of personnel and asset exposure to cryogenic fluids are specific safety drivers. As a prime example, the potential consequences of cryogenic spillage on deck and hull structures are studied to define the best counter measures.
The objective is to minimise the potential for escalation and promote safe escape. In the event of major accidents, the goal is evacuation and rescue of personnel while maintaining asset integrity.
FLNG flare radiation at deck level is potentially much higher than for conventional FPSO’s requiring the use of state-of-the-art modeling tools.
HEADQuArTErS
Technip
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