gas lng plant in soyo angola . contents 1 technical features 2 project company 3 challenges 4 references 5 external links technical features edit the angola lng plant is a single train facility with production capacity of 5.2 million tonnes per year . the plant uses conocophillips proprietary natural gas liquefaction technology optimized cascadesm process . 1 in addition to lng it also produces propane butane and condensate . the plant is supplied from offshore gas fields on blocks 14 15 17 and 18 and from non associated gas fields quiluma atum polvo and enguia . 2 the lng project is presented as environmentally friendly by its designers because most of its feedstock will consist of associated gas produced in association with crude oil in offshore field that is currently flared . the plant was constructed by bechtel . 1 the lng plant cost us 9 billion and it was commissioned in 2013 . 3 the first lng was shipped on 16 june 2013 . 4 project company edit the project was initially proposed to sonangol by texaco in june 1997 . the project jointly managed by sonangol and texaco continued evaluation processes and brought in outside partners originally exxonmobil elf aquitaine and bp . subsequently texaco merged with chevron corporation exxonmobil was replaced in the project by eni and elf aquitaine merged with total . angola lng was formed as a joint project in 2008 involving cabinda gulf oil company a subsidiary of chevron corporation 36.4 % sonangol 22.8 % bp 13.6 % eni 13.6 % and total 13.6 % . 5 sonangol and chevron serve as co project leaders . the shareholders will provide associated gas from their respective offshore oil fields . director of angola lng is eric dunning . 6 challenges edit angola lng faced an extended plant shutdown of more than two years from april 2014 to june 2016 to fix an number of design issues that caused an incident on 10 april 2014 . 7 8 references edit a b angola lng to deploy conocophillips liquefaction tech . downstream today . 2008 02 01 . retrieved 2008 02 23 . angola lng project is approved . press release . angola lng . 2007 12 10 . retrieved 2008 08 10 . faucon benoit 2009 12 24 . chevron confirms angola lng plant to cost 9b . dow jones newswires . downstream today . retrieved 2010 01 01 . mcclelland colin ; carroll joe 2013 06 16 . chevron s 10 billion angola lng ships first gas cargo . bloomberg . retrieved 2013 06 17 . angola green light for new 4b lng plant . downstream today . 2008 02 13 . retrieved 2008 02 23 . angola lng on track for 2012 flow . upstream online . nhst media group . 2009 07 20 . retrieved 2009 07 20 . chevron angola factsheet angola lng production resumes external links edit company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title angola lng & oldid 735289977 categories oil and gas companies of angolaliquefied natural gas plantsnatural gas in angolaenergy infrastructure in angolacompanies established in 1997 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 19 august 2016 at 19 17 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view