Project Profile
Location: Lumut, Brunei Darussalam
Founding Date: Established in 1969 and was opened in 1973
Sales Volume: 6.71 million tonnes per annum
Capacity: 7.2 million tonnes/annum
The Brunei LNG (BLNG) plant, in Brunei Darussalam, started operations in 1972 and was the first LNG project to deliver 5,000 cargoes. The BLNG plant was the first LNG plant in the Western Pacific and was built to serve growing demand in the Asia-Pacific region. In more than 30 years it has never missed a contractual delivery. BLNG is undergoing a second rejuvenation to extend its life by a further 20 years from 2013.
Brunei LNG project is a large LNG liquifaction plant, with 5 trains. Gas comes from the following fields: South West Ampa Gas Field, Fairley Oil and Gas Field, Gannet Oil and Gas Field, Champion Oil Field, Egret, Iron Duke Oil Field, Maharaja Lela Gas Field and Jamallul Alam. In 1972, the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant in Brunei, the first in the Western Pacific, was completed. A cogeneration plant, a joint project involving the Government, Brunei Shell Petroleum and the Brunei LNG was built in Lumut in 1987. By 1994, exports to Korea began and in 2012, LNG Sale and Purchase Heads of Agreement was finalised with TEPCO, Tokyo Gas & Osaka Gas.
Operators:
Shell Overseas Holdings Limited: Operator with 25% interest
The Brunei Government: Owner with 50% interest
Mitsubishi Corporation: 25% interest
Contractors:
WorleyParsons: FEED contract
Offtake companies:
Osaka Gas
Tokyo Gas
TEPCO
Tokyo Electric
Kogas
Technip: EPSCC contract aiming at the modification of the onshore facilities as well as the construction of a new onshore pipeline including de-bottlenecking of the processing plant, associated assistance in start-up and performance test (Technip’s operating center in Kuala Lumpur)