JGC To Design Omani LNG Plant

Japan’s JGC has won a front-end engineering and design (Feed) contract for the Sohar LNG bunkering scheme on the northern shore of Oman.

The engineering group said on July 17 it had been hired by France’s Total and state-owned Oman Oil to design a medium-scale plant capable of producing 1mn mt of LNG at a site 200 km west of Muscat. US-based McDermott on July 15 secured a Feed study from the pair for some of the project’s onshore facilities.

Plants built by JGC account for 30% of global LNG production. The company is constructing a large-scale plant in Malaysia and two floating LNG (FLNG) facilities off the coasts of Malaysia and Mozambique.

As the world's "foremost LNG contractor, JGC will continue to develop its strong business activities in the field of small / medium-scale LNG plants construction in addition to conventional, large-scale LNG plants,” the company said.