Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) offers the most efficient and cost-effective path for monetising gas in the Guyana-Suriname Basin, says Lorenzo Disaro, Offshore Business Director for FLNG-LNG at Technip Energies.
“Instead of injecting the gas, it makes sense to send some of the gas to shore,” Disaro told OilNOW during an exclusive interview at the Suriname Energy Oil and Gas Summit. But for large-scale export, he insists FLNG is the better option.
“We are far from shore,” he pointed out. “We are talking about 200 kilometers or more, and the shoreline is very shallow for a long distance.” He explained that building pipelines and onshore LNG plants in such conditions would require extensive dredging. “That’s a huge, huge, huge cost. And even that, once you have done it, you need to maintain the dredging all the time.”
Disaro said FLNG eliminates these challenges. “Instead of doing that onshore, the best is to stay offshore. There is no more dredging issue. You don’t need to build this long pipeline.”
He highlighted global examples to support his case. “That’s why we did FLNGs in Mozambique and in Prelude, Australia. Same reason, very far from shore, very expensive construction cost onshore.”
