By Upstream staff
Shell has paused with front-end engineering and design work on the Gulf Landing gravity-base liquefied natural gas receiving terminal pending the completion of environmental impact studies (EIS) of the proposed graving dock sites and for closer alignment with the projected 2011 start-up of the Olokola LNG plant in Nigeria.
The FEED studies, which were projected to last 10 months to a year, could be on hold for three months or more, claimed a source familiar with the project.
A consortium of fabricator Kiewit Offshore Services, Japanese LNG tank builder IHI and engineering group Black&Veatch is performing one FEED while Saipem and its Technigaz subsidiary is engaged in a rival, separate FEED for Gulf Landing.