French engineering firm Technip Energies secures large FLNG contract in Africa

French-based global engineering and technology company Technip Energies has secured a large contract for a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) unit in Africa. According to the company’s press statement on July 11, the contract is for preliminary activities and will be effective until September.

Without disclosing the name of its client, Technip Energies stated that the “large” award represented between €250mn ($270mn) and €500mn ($545mn) of revenue.

“This order intake represents Technip Energies’ portion of a joint venture and will be recorded in the Project Delivery segment’s backlog in Q3 2025,” the French contractor said, adding that “this large award covers preliminary activities only; additional order intake is expected to be booked upon full contract award.”

Technip Energies is a leading global player in FLNG technology, having successfully delivered three offshore units with a combined production capacity of 8.2mn tonnes per year (tpy). These include PFLNG SATU in Malaysia, Prelude FLNG in Australia, and Coral Sul FLNG in Mozambique.

The French firm’s announcement comes only days after Samsung Heavy Industries, a major Korean shipbuilder, said it had secured a deal worth $637mn to build an offshore production facility in Africa.

Korea JoongAng Daily reported on July 7 that Samsung Heavy Industries signed an initial contract with a European shipping company operating in Africa to construct an FLNG production unit in Mozambique, according to the company’s press release. Similarly to Technip’s contract, this initial deal is expiring at the end of September. The final agreement would be signed at a later date, a company spokesperson said.

According to industry sources, the new FLNG unit is most likely to be deployed at the Eni-led Coral North (Coral Norte) project in Mozambique. Technip Energies, in partnership with Samsung Heavy Industries and Japan’s engineering company JGC, has previously led the TJS Consortium, which completed the Coral Sul (Coral South) FLNG project in Mozambique. The facility was handed over to Italy’s energy major Eni in January 2024, following successful performance testing confirming production capacity above 3.4mn tpy.

As reported by the African Energy Chamber (AEC), Technip Energies is expanding its presence across Africa’s energy sector. “The company is set to advance the development of a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessel for the $7.2bn Eni-led Coral Norte project in Mozambique in the short-term period,” the AEC said in a press statement on July 9.

“Following an April 2025 approval by the Mozambican government, Eni will adopt Technip Energies’ FLNG unit with a capacity to produce 3.55mn metric tonnes of LNG per annum.” The Coral Norte project is expected to achieve first production by the second half of 2028.

Technip Energies is active in other projects across Africa in LNG and gas infrastructure. It is providing front-end engineering design (FEED) services for ExxonMobil’s 10mn tpy Rovuma LNG project in Mozambique under a contract secured in September 2024.

In June 2025, the company reached commercial operations for the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel at BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) LNG project offshore Mauritania and Senegal, as reported by NewsBase.

Technip Energies is also advancing energy transition efforts in Africa, including an MoU with Namibia’s national oil company NAMCOR and a separate MoU with the Republic of Congo, focused on LNG, decarbonisation, and local capacity building.