Although drillers are pushing farther and farther offshore in places like the US Gulf of Mexico or Brazil, there remains enough midstream build-out in the area to make conventional gas production techniques more attractive than floating solutions.
“Our perspective is, if you have a gas field that is offshore, a long way from shore, if you have everything developed right there - with your upstream development subsea and you can produce it into a floating LNG facility you are avoiding the infrastructure going into shore,” Anders Ekvall, vice president of LNG Americas, told Upstream on the sidelines of LNG 17 in Houston.
“If
