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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 31 KB
• Volume: 2005
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1359-6128
• DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6128(05)71038-7

✦ Synopsis

YEMGAS, a joint venture between

Technip JGC (Japan) and KBR (USA), has signed a US$2 billion lump sum turnkey contract with Yemen LNG Co Ltd for the country's first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG ) plant.

This new plant will be located at Balhaf on the southern coast of Yemen. It will consist of two LNG trains using the APCI C3/MCR process and will be capable of delivering 6.7 million tons of LNG per annum. The target for Train 1 start-up is the end of 2008, with Train 2 coming on line approximately five months later.

Under the leadership of Technip, the joint venture team will undertake engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and start-up of the plant.