Chinese fabricator Wison Offshore & Marine is poised to win an order to build a small-scale floating liquefaction unit for Colombia’s Pacific Rubiales.
Belgium’s Exmar is working with the South American company on the Caribbean export project.
The shipping and offshore player is said to be gearing up to place an engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning contract at Wison’s Shanghai base next week.
A firm deal would mark the yard’s entry into the LNG sector.
The privately-held company has been pushing to take on heavyweight rivals in Asia in the offshore oil and gas construction business.
Pacific Rubiales signed a services agreement in March committing Exmar to provide a bi-directional floating liquefaction, regasification and storage unit for a site on Colombia’s northern coast.
