French oil and gas contractor Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract for a mid-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant to be built in Yinchuan, China.
The contract was awarded by Ningxia Hanas Natural Gas Company Ltd and covers the contract covers the engineering, supply of main equipment, procurement and construction management services for facilities for natural gas pre-treatment, liquefaction, LNG storage and loading, utilities, offsites, buildings and other infrastructure.
This LNG plant, which will be the largest facility of its kind in China, will have two trains with a capacity of 400,000 tons per annum (tpa) each, based on an Air Products liquefaction process. The LNG will be distributed to the Chinese market to help meet the growing demand for clean energy.
Technip’s operating centers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Shanghai, China will execute the contract, which is scheduled to be completed in the second half of 2011.
The value of the contract was not disclosed.
