The President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, and the CEO of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, laid the foundation stone for Congo LNG.

It will be the country's first natural gas liquefaction project and is expected to reach an overall liquefied natural gas (LNG) production capacity of 3 million tons per year (about 4.5 billion cubic meters/year) by 2025.

The project, with an accelerated development schedule and zero flaring approach, will see the installation of two floating natural gas liquefaction (FLNG) plants on the Nenè and Litchendjili fields, already in production, and on fields yet to be developed.

The first FLNG plant, currently under conversion with a capacity of 0.6 million tons per annum (MTPA), will start production in 2023. The second FLNG plant, already under construction, will be operational in 2025 with a capacity of 2.4 MTPA.

As a reminder, Eni signed an agreement in August 2022 to purchase the Tango FLNG floating liquefaction plant from Belgium-based Exmar for use in the Republic of Congo. Tango FLNG, delivered in 2017, has a storage capacity of 16,100 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and a liquefaction capacity of up to 0.6 million tons per year.

Then, in December 2022, Eni signed a contract with China's Wison Heavy Industry for the construction and installation of a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit with a capacity of 2.4 MTPA (million tons per annum), also for deployment offshore the Republic of Congo.

The 380-meter long and 60-meter wide vessel will be anchored at a water depth of approximately 40 meters and will be able to store more than 180,000 cubic meters of LNG and 45,000 cubic meters of LPG.

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