ABS granted the approval in principle to Wison on September 19 during the Gastech conference in Houston.
The classification society completed design reviews based on class and statutory requirements.
The 268-meter FLNG unit is designed to perform offshore and at-shore with an expected production capacity of 1.2 mtpa, the two firms said.
“Wison is continuously optimizing the performance of our FLNG product design, significantly improving production efficiency while effectively reducing carbon emissions during the production process,” Wison’s general manager, FLNG product center, Hao Jiang, said.
“In the field of FLNG, Wison has been accumulating technical experience and integrating internal and external resources, dedicated to providing global clients with reliable, low-cost, and short delivery time FLNG solutions,” Jiang said.
Three FLNGs
Wison recently announced it will build a new yard for offshore facilities in Qidong.
The company and the Qidong municipal government of the Jiangsu province signed an investment agreement on August 1 for WNE’s new yard in Qidong Lusi Port Economic Development Zone.
This new move followed Wison’s cooperation deal with Zhoushan CIMC Changhong Shipyard and its announcement saying that it would discontinue all ongoing Russian projects and that it would stop taking any new Russian business.
At the same time, Wison said it had decided to sell its entire equity interest in Zhoushan Wison Offshore & Marine.
Wison’s announcement regarding the Russian business came one day after the firm secured a contract from a unit of Genting to build a floating LNG unit worth about $1 billion.
Following completion in 2026, the 1.2 mtpa FLNG will work in Indonesia.
This is Wison’s third FLNG contract, after contracts with Exmar and Eni.
Also, this will be the first FLNG facility in Indonesia and the ninth FLNG in the world, according to Wison.
Wison won a contract from Italy’s Eni in December 2022 to build a 380-meter-long 2.4 mtpa FLNG and officially started work on the project in January last year.
In May, the company completed the installation of all SPB tanks on the FLNG, which will serve the Marine XII offshore FLNG project in Congo.
