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ConocoPhillips, Bechtel renew worldwide LNG projects alliance
Petroleum News Alaska
ConocoPhillips and Bechtel Corp. said that they have renewed their collaboration in worldwide liquefied natural gas projects. “The ConocoPhillips-Bechtel collaboration continues our commitment to providing our LNG technology while leveraging our position as a pre-eminent participant in the LNG industry worldwide,” Rick Hernandez, ConocoPhillips’ manager of worldwide LNG technology licensing, said Oct. 14.
“ConocoPhillips and Bechtel continue to capitalize on our respective LNG strengths to increase our global market share of LNG facilities,” he said.
Amos Avidan, Bechtel’s principal vice president and manager of petroleum and chemicals technologies, said: “Bechtel has been a global leader in LNG engineering and construction for over 30 years, and our recent awards add to our LNG design portfolio. Combining our expertise with ConocoPhillips’ continues to provide our customers with lower capital and operating costs, faster time to market, more reliable operations, and overall greater value.”
First used in Alaska ConocoPhillips’ said its optimized cascade LNG process was first used in 1969 at its Nikiski LNG plant, which was designed and built by Bechtel, and was the first facility to ship LNG to Japan and the first to use gas turbines to drive its compressors.
Bechtel and ConocoPhillips said they are currently working on expanding the Atlantic LNG facility in Trinidad.
Train 1 had been in operation for three years, train 2 was recently started up and engineering construction continues for additional trains.
The companies are working on technology enhancements at their Houston-based LNG Product Development Center, staffed by employees from both companies. Current efforts are aimed at developing higher-capacity plants with improved environmental performance.
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