Air Products to provide LNG technology for Mozambique onshore project

Air Products will provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology and associated processing equipment to Mozambique’s first onshore LNG project.

Air Products will manufacture two LNG heat exchangers at its facility in the Port Manatee county of Florida, US.

The company will ship these heat exchangers to the project site on the Afungi Peninsula in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.

Total leads the Mozambique LNG Area 1 Project, which consists of a global team of energy developers.

Air Products executive vice-president Samir Serhan said: “Our LNG heat exchangers are in operation around the world and when this project goes onstream we can add Mozambique to the growing list of countries where we play a key role in meeting the world’s clean energy needs through the production of LNG.

“Our LNG business is encouraged by the activity in the market and customers should know that Air Products’ expanded manufacturing facility is capable of addressing their LNG technological needs anywhere in the world.”

As per the agreement with engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor CCS JV, Air Products will provide two of its coil-wound main cryogenic heat exchangers (MCHE) for the onshore project.

These MCHEs will operate at the site as part of two separate LNG production trains designed to produce over 13 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of LNG from the Golfinho / Atum natural gas fields in Mozambique.

CCS JV chairman Roberto Uberti said: “We have been tasked with building the first onshore LNG export facility in Mozambique and one of the most efficient facilities in the LNG space.

“We are carefully selecting reliable and experienced technology providers and under this perspective the benefits of Air Products involvement are clearly consistent.”

In May 2018, Air Products inaugurated a new industrial gas complex at the Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) Kochi Refinery in Kochi, India.