For Mexico, this is a fast lane to Pacific cargoes without a Panama Canal tax. For Drydocks World, it is a major opportunity for full scale LNG fabrication with global visibility. Amigo says nameplate capacity will exceed 4.2 million tons per year, a level that would reshape the FLNG leaderboard and tilt more Atlantic Basin gas toward Asia out of Guaymas, Sonora.

The Dubai yard will build the FLNG barges, integrate United States based pretreatment and liquefaction technology, and convert LNG carriers into floating storage units. Doing all of that in a single industrial ecosystem is the point, fewer interfaces, shorter logistics, more time under cover, and pre commissioning in a controlled yard environment before sail away. Drydocks World is leaning on its big dock plan, long load out quay and established conversion track record to keep schedule and quality aligned.

Marine facilities are already under contract

Two weeks before the FLNG award, Amigo LNG signed an EPC contract with Constructora Manzanillo, COMSA Marine, for the Guaymas marine package. The scope covers detailed engineering, construction and commissioning of the jetty, berthing and mooring systems, and associated utilities. Amigo highlights a quad berth layout with high capacity loading arms above 15,000 cubic meters per hour and a terminal sized at 7.8 million tons per year, with exports targeted in the third quarter of 2028. Sequencing the marine works in front of the floating scope is smart project control, it derisks readiness at first cargo and creates float for dredging and piling.

An exciting subcontract value map

Using EPCIntel.com’s EPC contract database benchmarks from recent floating LNG builds and large conversion programs, we see the following order of magnitude ranges for the major packages within the Drydocks World award. These are indicative ranges that will tighten as technology and equipment selection are locked.

• Liquefaction process and main cryogenic equipment, MCHEs, cold boxes, propane condensers, across the full FLNG complex: 350 to 500 million dollars, reflecting two train scale and vendor mix.

• Refrigerant compressor trains and prime movers, large frame gas turbines or high voltage motors with variable speed drives: plus boil off and utility compressors, 250 to 400 million dollars.

• Topsides module fabrication and integration support beyond yard self perform, process, utilities, flare, accommodation: 700 to 1,100 million dollars.

• Hull, mooring and offloading systems for the FLNG barge solution, including mooring spread or turret hardware and LNG offloading package: 250 to 450 million dollars.

• FSU conversions, dry dockings, cargo handling upgrades, reliquefaction and vapor handling, two ship class projects assumed: 400 to 700 million dollars in total.

• Electrical, instrumentation and control, ICSS, DCS, SIS, high voltage distribution: substations and cabling, 150 to 300 million dollars.

• Balance of plant and yard services, lifting, testing, pre-commissioning, preservation: 75 to 150 million dollars.

These ranges point to a multi billion dollar EPC stack for the floating scope alone. They are consistent with recent FLNG cost structures seen across the EPCIntel.com dataset, where rotating equipment and cryogenics dominate long lead risk, and module tonnage drives the integration bill. Supplier candidates to watch include the usual LNG technology houses for the liquefaction kit, the big turbomachinery primes, and specialist module shops with proven LNG quality systems.

Execution watch list

Lead times for frame class compressor trains and their drivers will set the critical path, as will delivery and shop testing windows for the main cryogenic heat exchangers. On the civil side, jetty piling and dredging must track the sail away date to ensure efficient vessel utilization. Amigo’s own guidance points to first exports in the third quarter of 2028, so the schedule math leaves little slack, but the packaging is coherent and the yard has the scale.

Bottom line

Amigo LNG’s double strike, marine EPC in Mexico and FLNG EPC in Dubai, gives the project a credible path to Pacific cargoes with a cost and schedule profile that matches the market window. Drydocks World gets a franchise defining job that could reset perceptions of where large LNG hardware can be fabricated. For equipment makers and specialist contractors, this is a full stack FLNG shopping list, cryogenics, turbomachinery, ICSS, moorings, loading arms, module yards and conversion yards. The prize is big, and so is the execution challenge, which is exactly where disciplined yards tend to win.

Sources: Amigo LNG press releases on the Drydocks World EPC award and the COMSA Marine marine facilities EPC, both from Aug. 2025. Figures for subcontract ranges are EPCIntel.com estimates based on our EPC contract database.