Yards and contractors have received an invitation to tender for front-end engineering and design work on a second LNG floating production unit for Malaysia’s Petronas .

The documents for the 1.5 million tonnes per annum floating production storage and offloading unit went out to four consortia.

In the mix are a grouping of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Chiyoda and Saipem; Hyundai Heavy Industries and Technip; Samsung Heavy Industries and JGC; and a partnership of Japan’s IHI Shipbuilding, CB&I, Modec and Toyo Engineering.

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