Under a build, own, and operate contract with Pacific Rubiales Energy, Exmar will use the facility comprising a non-propelled barge, located on the Caribbean coast offshore Colombia, to convert 69.5 million scf/d of natural gas into LNG (+/- 500,000 tons of LNG per annum).
The company will temporarily store LNG in onboard tanks with a total capacity of 14,000m³ and subsequently offload either to shuttle tankers or a permanently-moored floating storage unit.
Pipeline from the onshore La Creciente field, located in the Lower Magdalena Valley Basin, will supply gas to the facility, which will be moored to a jetty.
Wison Offshore & Marine will design and engineer the unit from its Shanghai operational centre and will perform construction work at Wison’s wholly-owned fabrication facility located in Nantong, China, supported by the company’s subsidiary in Houston, Texas, US.
The company has contracted Black & Veatch to execute the engineering and procurement of the topside liquefaction equipment and packages.
Wison said the floating unit is expected to start operations in the fourth quarter of 2014.
