The President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, and Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi laid the foundation stone for Congo LNG.
This will be the country's first natural gas liquefaction project, and is expected to reach a global liquefied natural gas (LNG) production capacity of 3 million tonnes per year (around 4.5 billion cubic meters/year) from 2025.
"Congo LNG will tap into Marine XII's huge gas resources, meeting the country's power generation needs while fuelling LNG exports, supplying new gas volumes to international markets with a focus on Europe."
said Eni
The project, based on an accelerated development schedule and a zero flaring approach, will see the installation of two floating natural gas liquefaction (FLNG) plants on the Nenè and Litchendjili fields, already in production, and on fields yet to be developed.
The first FLNG plant, currently under conversion and with a capacity of 0.6 million tonnes per annum (MTPA), will go into production in 2023. The second FLNG plant, already under construction, will be operational in 2025, with a capacity of 2.4 MTPA.
As a reminder, in August 2022 Eni signed an agreement to purchase the Tango FLNG floating liquefaction plant from Exmar, based in Belgium, for use in the Republic of Congo. Tango FLNG, delivered in 2017, has a storage capacity of 16,100 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and a liquefaction capacity of up to 0.6 million tons per year.
Then, in December 2022, Eni signed a contract with China's Wison Heavy Industry for the construction and installation of a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit with a capacity of 2.4 MTPA (million metric tons per annum), also for deployment offshore the Republic of Congo.
The 380-meter-long, 60-meter-wide vessel will be anchored at a water depth of around 40 meters, and will be able to store over 180,000 cubic meters of LNG and 45,000 cubic meters of LPG.
