The Italian major will in October firm up an order at Samsung Heavy Industries for a total project cost of $5.4 billion, Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.

The FLNG contract is going to a consortium including France’s Technip and JGC of Japan, the report said.

Upstream reported last year that the consortium – called the Reef Consortium – was the frontrunner to land the contract for the FLNG unit for Eni’s planned Coral South development in Area 4 off Mozambique.

Yonhap’s