The new LNG train would add another 3.6 million tonnes per annum to the existing 24 mtpc production capacity of the Petronas LNG Complex and would utilise the same liquefaction process technology as the complex’s existing eight trains.
The required feed gas of up to 850 million standard cubic feet per day would be supplied by the various fields offshore Sarawak. The project was targeted to meet its Final Investment Decision (FID) by the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13) with Ready for Start-Up (RFSU) date targeted for 4Q15.
Upon completion, Petronas LNG Train 9 would include gas receiving facilities, acid gas removal unit, dehydration and mercury removal unit, fractionation and liquefaction unit, LNG rundown unit and all the associated utilities and facilities. The LNG produced from the new train would be exported via the existing storage and loading facilities within the complex.