Over $70 Bn Capital Investments to Float Offshore

Tuesday 29 October 2013, Amsterdam

“Global Floating LNG (FLNG) Trends Outlook and Investment Prospects to 2020- Over $70 Billion Capital Investments to Float Offshore” is a unique and comprehensive research work on global floating LNG industry.

The new report quotes that ‘over $70 Billion will be spent on FLNG projects between 2012 and 2020, averaging at $8.3 Billion per year with investment peaking in 2017’. The research work focuses on the accelerating pace of change in FLNG markets, technologies, investment scenarios- and what this means for operators, constructors, consumers, investors and policy makers. Amidst tight market conditions in global LNG industry, the report provides detailed outlook into global FLNG markets.

The compulsory guide for companies involved in FLNG markets identifies the key trends, drivers and challenges along with detailed annual outlook of each of the market to 2020. It also evaluates potential investment and new entry/ expansion opportunities in all the emerging and existing FLNG markets. Technology insights and developments, current status of terminals (FEED, FID, EPC), competition, latest industry developments are analyzed in detail. Global planned Floating liquefaction and regasification projects in the industry along with outlook of capital expenditure, capacity, competition, supply-demand, market structure to 2020 are detailed in the report. 

The report ensures that you do not fall behind in the race of investing in FLNG industry and ensures that your investments are focused in correct locations. Through detailed analysis on each of the segment of global FLNG value chain, the report enables you to identify key markets, companies, technologies and facilities being used in global and regional FLNG industry. The research work is designed in a user friendly style and ensures that reader with limited prior knowledge of FLNG technologies and concepts also can get detailed and focused insights into the industry.


Further, some of the key trends as stated by the report include:

• FLNG industry to attract more than $75 Billion capital investments between 2012 and 2020
• Around 30% of new global regasification capacity will be through floating LNG terminals
• Traditional exporters continue to develop floating regasification terminals to cater domestic demand and export contract agreements
• Excelerate Energy to continue to dominate global FLNG regasification markets to 2020
• 34 companies (regasification) and 19 companies (liquefaction) plan to foray into FLNG industry
• Australia and the US- key for future FLNG industry growth
• Despite low economic growth, European countries to invest in floating LNG infrastructure
• Countries in Middle East and South and Central America prefer floating terminals to cater surging domestic gas demand
• South and Central American FLNG regasification capacity to more than double by the end of the decade