{"id":14058,"date":"2023-11-21T06:21:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T06:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=14058"},"modified":"2023-11-21T06:21:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T06:21:13","slug":"mauritania-flng-gimi-delivered-from-seatrium-shipyard-and-sailing-for-gta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/mauritania-flng-gimi-delivered-from-seatrium-shipyard-and-sailing-for-gta\/","title":{"rendered":"MAURITANIA: FLNG Gimi delivered from Seatrium Shipyard and sailing for GTA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Golar LNG has announce that the FLNG\u00a0<em>Gimi\u00a0<\/em>departed Singapore\u2019s Seatrium Shipyard  on November 19, 2023. FLNG\u00a0<em>Gimi<\/em>\u00a0is now sailing under its own propulsion, supported by an escort tug, toward BP\u2019s purpose-built Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) hub offshore Mauritania and Senegal. The voyage is expected to take around 60 days, including refuelling stops in Mauritius prior to rounding the Cape of Good Hope and in Namibia prior to its arrival. Upon arrival, FLNG\u00a0<em>Gimi<\/em>\u00a0will notify BP that it is ready to be moored and connected to the hub, which is expected to trigger the start of contractual cash flows under the 20-year Lease and Operate Agreement on the GTA field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Golar CEO Karl-Fredrik Staubo commented: \u201cGolar is pleased to complete conversion of the FLNG&nbsp;<em>Gimi<\/em>. We would like to thank Seatrium, Black and Veatch and other suppliers for another successful FLNG delivery. With&nbsp;<em>Gimi<\/em>&nbsp;soon on site for start-up of operations Golar will double its operating fleet of FLNGs and bring total installed liquefaction capacity up to 5.1mtpa. We look forward to having FLNG&nbsp;<em>Gimi<\/em>&nbsp;in operation, and to continued long term cooperation with BP, Kosmos and the national oil and gas companies of Mauritania and Senegal. As the leading, independent owner and operator of FLNG units globally, we are committed to enabling monetization of attractive proven gas fields through our market leading operational track record, attractive capex\/ton of liquefaction capacity and amongst the industry\u2019s most efficient emissions\/ton produced LNG.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golar LNG has announce that the FLNG\u00a0Gimi\u00a0departed Singapore\u2019s Seatrium Shipyard on November 19, 2023. FLNG\u00a0Gimi\u00a0is now sailing under its own propulsion, supported by an escort tug, toward BP\u2019s purpose-built Greater &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/mauritania-flng-gimi-delivered-from-seatrium-shipyard-and-sailing-for-gta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7442,7444],"tags":[11404,346,901,11400,11401,9498,10351,1428,1535,11403,2283,11405],"class_list":["post-14058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-west-africa","tag-black","tag-bp","tag-flng","tag-flng-gimi","tag-golar-lng","tag-greater-tortue-ahmeyim","tag-kosmos","tag-lng","tag-mauritania","tag-seatrium","tag-senegal","tag-veatch","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FLNG-Gimi.jpg?fit=602%2C352&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-3EK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15118,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/flng-gimi-reaches-commercial-operations-date-and-golar-progresses-flng-growth\/","url_meta":{"origin":14058,"position":0},"title":"FLNG Gimi reaches Commercial Operations Date and Golar progresses FLNG growth","author":"","date":"June 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Golar LNG Limited announces that FLNG\u00a0Gimi\u00a0has reached the Commercial Operations Date for its 20-year Lease and Operate Agreement for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) project offshore Mauritania and Senegal. 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The FPSO set sail on 20 January 2023 from Qidong, China after successfully completing a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Countries&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Countries","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GTA-FPSO.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GTA-FPSO.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GTA-FPSO.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GTA-FPSO.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10313,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/utm-offshore-signs-pre-feed-contract-for-nigerias-first-floating-lng-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":14058,"position":5},"title":"UTM Offshore Signs Pre-FEED Contract for Nigeria\u2019s First Floating LNG Project","author":"","date":"May 12, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"UTM Offshore Limited, a Nigerian marine services company, has signed this morning a pre-Front End Engineering Design (Pre-FEED) contract with JGC Corporation of Japan for the development of a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) project offshore Nigeria. 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