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Offshore Wison & Navy will plan and construct to a Floating LNG Liquefaction, Regasification and Storage Unit for Exmar
the new system, first to the world of this type, will become operating in the last trimester of 2014
June 4, 2012
Offshore Wison & Navy, society of the Chinese group Wison, has announced to have received from the Exmar Belgian an order for the planning, construction and installation of a Floating LNG Liquefaction, Regasification and Storage Unit (FLRSU), that it will be the first unit of this type to the world. The new system, that it will become operating in the last trimester of 2014, will be employed by the Belgian group within a contract Build, Own and Operate with the Columbian Pacific Rubiales Energy Corporation and will be placed in the Caribbean area to the wide one of the coast of Colombia.
The FLRSU will consist about half in a barge not equipped of means of propulsion on which a system will be installed in order to convert 69,5 million feet cubes of natural gas to the day in which liquified natural gas, for a total million tons of LNG per year, that temporary it will be stoccato in reserviors of the total ability to 14.000 cubic metres.
New FLRSU will be planned by the command post of Offshore Wison & Navy to Shanghai and will be constructed in the factory of the company to Nantong; other supplies will be installed in the plant of the branch American to Houston, in Texas.
"The signature of contract EPCIC (engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning) with Wison - the managing director of Exmar has commented, Nicolas Saverys - not only constitutes an historical event for Exmar and Wison, but also for the industry of the liquified natural gas, since the first unit of floating liquefaction is transformed from a project to a final contract".
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Offshore Wison & Navy, society of the Chinese group Wison, has announced to have received from the Exmar Belgian an order for the planning, construction and installation of a Floating LNG Liquefaction, Regasification and Storage Unit (FLRSU), that it will be the first unit of this type to the world. The new system, that it will become operating in the last trimester of 2014, will be employed by the Belgian group within a contract Build, Own and Operate with the Columbian Pacific Rubiales Energy Corporation and will be placed in the Caribbean area to the wide one of the coast of Colombia.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
