KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 6): Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has officially begun the construction of the group's Floating LNG2 (PFLNG2) with the keel laying of its second floating liquefaction plant in Geoje Island, South Korea, on Oct 28.
In a statement today, Petronas said the second floating LNG facility will enable the liquefaction, production and offloading processing of natural gas in the Rotan field, which is 130 km offshore Sabah.
"With a capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) and designed for deep-water, PFLNG2 is expected to commission in 2018," the group said.
Petronas collaborated with JGC Group and Samsung Heavy Industries, the consortium that led the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning of the PFLNG2.
PFLNG2 has a collective weight of 134,000 tonnes.