Meggitt wins contract with LNG plant offshore Malaysia

7th May 2014 07:00

Industrial engineering firm Meggitt has been awarded a contract by JGC Corporation for the supply of printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHEs) for Petronas' second floating liquefied natural gas facility (PFLNG2).JGC is part of a consortium developing the PFLNG2 which will be located in gas fields offshore Malaysia, with a production capacity of 1.5m tons of LNG per year.The contract was awarded to Meggitt's heat exchanger business, Heatric.Meggitt said that heat exchangers are key to the offshore gas processing industry, weighing up to 85% less than conventional technology which lowers the cost of topside super-structure support.The company explained: "It combines diffusion-bonding with precision-engineered, chemically-etched flow plates, producing  compact, lightweight PCHEs favoured by offshore platforms and vessels where space and weight is at a premium."Last year, Heatric was awarded PCHE supply contracts at Petrobas' floating production, storage and offloading vessels offshore Brazil, and for the Shell Prelude Floating LNG Project offshore Australia."Heatric is an established supplier to JGC, which has been responsible for constructing about 30% of LNG plants worldwide, including seven new projects in Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Russia, and Canada," said Meggitt's Chief Executive Stephen Young."We are delighted that Heatric continues as JGC's heat exchanger partner as it moves offshore to meet the requirements of ground-breaking FLNG projects such as Malaysia's PETRONAS' PFLNG 1 project, the world's first floating LNG plant located in gas fields more than 1,000 metres beneath the ocean's surface."  BC