(Business in Cameroon) - Hilli Episeyo, a custom-built vessel used to process gas, which will allow the liquefaction of natural gas along the coast of Kribi, the resort town, should accost in the next few days, sources close to the case revealed.

According to our sources, the vessel, customized by the Singaporean firm Keppel Shipyard, left Singapore for Cameroon on October 12, 2017.

Hilli Episeyo will operate on behalf of the French oil and gas firm Perenco and the national oil company SNH, which are engaged, for some years now, in the “Floating Liquefied Natural Gas” project.

The two companies want to start processing natural gas with the floating unit, whose processing capacity is 1.2 million tons of gas per year, while awaiting the construction of a processing unit near the deep-water port of Kribi.

Hilli Episeyo which is the result of a CFA700 billion investment by Golar LNG, partner of SNH and Perenco in this project, will also produce 30,000 tons of domestic gas every year and 5,000 barrels of condensate every day.

BRM