Under the contract, Sicim will take care of FEED (front-end engineering design) engineering for the onshore part of the section, around 125 miles north of the city of Pemba, in a strategic area for the development of the energy industry in Mozambique.
Siscim said the contract includes the design of 6 pipelines, each around 3 miles long, and an umbilical one of equal length.
Together, they will connect the liquefaction plant to the offshore pipes.
Specifically, Sicim will take charge of a number of key operations including process design and pipeline technical safety, as well as piping engineering for the launcher/receiver area and the infrastructure works required from a civil engineering standpoint.
In collaboration with RINA, Sicim will also take charge of environmental engineering tasks, with a special focus on the study of the environmental impacts of the works and the development activities and on vulnerable areas, such as alluvial zones, it said.
Sicim did not provide the financial details.
EPC contract
Last year, Houston-based McDermott, through a consortium with Italy’s Saipem and China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation, won the FEED contract for the Rovuma LNG project.
In addition, France’s Technip Energies and Japan’s JGC also announced the FEED award for the project.
The two joint ventures will compete to win the EPC contract.
The FEED phase is expected to take around 16 months and is the last step before a final investment decision (FID).
Mozambique Rovuma Venture (MRV), which, besides ExxonMobil, includes Italy’s Eni and China’s CNPC is developing the project.
MRV operates the deepwater Area 4 block in the Rovuma basin off Mozambique, which will feed the planned LNG export plant on the Afungi peninsula from the Mamba reservoirs.
The joint venture holds a 70 percent interest in the Area 4 exploration and production concession contract.
In addition to MRV, Galp, Kogas, and Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos each hold a 10 percent interest in Area 4.
ExxonMobil is leading the construction and operation of the liquefaction and related facilities on behalf of MRV, and Eni is leading the construction and operation of the upstream facilities.
