Muscat –
CB&I, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the US-based McDermott, has been awarded a ‘significant’ contract by Marsa LNG – a joint venture between TotalEnergies and OQ – for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of a full containment concrete LNG storage tank located in the Port of Sohar.
CB&I is the world’s leading designer and builder of storage facilities, tanks, and terminals. It defines a ‘significant’ contract as between $100mn and $250mn.
The Marsa LNG project is an integrated LNG project which is being jointly established by TotalEnergies and OQ at Sohar Port with an estimated cost of $1.6bn. TotalEnergies and OQ recently announced their Final Investment Decision for the Marsa LNG project.
Under the scope of its contract, CB&I will provide turnkey EPC services for a 165,000m³ full containment concrete LNG storage tank and associated piping to grade. Project delivery will be executed in Oman, where CB&I has been continually present since 1968, with support from CB&I’s Dubai office.
“Through this project, CB&I will contribute to the construction of one of the lowest greenhouse gas emissions intensity LNG plants ever built and the energy transition market in Oman,” Cesar Canals, President, and CEO of CB&I, said in a press statement.
He said, “It supports our ambition to build storage for projects that will help provide reliable energy to markets with a reduced environmental impact. It will also pave the way for similar storage opportunities in the future and continue our long history of execution excellence in the Middle East, specifically Oman.”
CB&I said that the work is expected to commence with construction activities in the fourth quarter of 2024. The project is targeted for completion in 2028.
The Marsa LNG project, 80% owned by TotalEnergies and 20% owned by OQ, combines upstream gas production, downstream gas liquefaction, and renewable power generation.
In April, Technip Energies, a leading French engineering and technology company, was awarded a major EPC contract by TotalEnergies and OQ for the Marsa LNG project. The contract covers EPC of a natural gas liquefaction train with an LNG production capacity of 1mn tonnes per annum.
The Marsa LNG plant will use electric-driven motors instead of conventional gas turbines and will be powered by renewable electricity from a planned nearby solar farm, which will cover 100% of the annual power consumption of the LNG plant.
