Project Profile
Value: US$5 billion
Location: 30km south of Kribi on the Southern Coastline, Cameroon
Start-up Year: 2018
Area: unknown
Production Capacity: 3.5 million tons of LNG per annum
The Cameroon LNG project will consist of a production plant located 30km south of Kribi on the Southern Coastline of Cameroon and will be supplied by a national gas transportation network connecting gas resources. The liquefaction plant will have a production capacity of up to 3.5 million tons of LNG per annum for the first train. In 2008, SNH and GDF SUEZ began a strategic partnership to develop an LNG export plant in Cameroon with the aims to momentise associated and non-associated gas resources, and for GDF SUEZ to secure new long-term LNG supplies. The signature of a Framework Agreement in December 2010 between the Republic of Cameroon and GDF SUEZ confirmed this partnership and was an important step on implementing the Cameroon Natural Gas Master Plan elaborated by SNH. Preliminary studies concluded that the optimal solution is an onshore production plant. Pre-FEED studies that had been initiated in 2010 by Foster Wheeler were completed mid-2011. In 2011, preliminary commercial agreements related to natural gas were signed with upstream companies having an access to important fields in Cameroon. GDF Suez and the SNH established a partnership to develop Cameroon LNG back in 2008, but the project hindered by geological and infrastructure constraints, as well as administrative hurdles. Until recently the firms planned to build an onshore 3.5m‑t/y gas liquefaction plant, to be commissioned in 2018. There is also a planned floating LNG plant (Golar FLNG) that will complement the onshore project.
Operators:
GDF Suez: Operator
SNH
Contractors:
Foster Wheeler: Pre-FEED contract
Sub-contractor:
Tamrotor Marine Compressors: compressed air for Golar Hilli FLNG vessel