Energy major Chevron and Israel’s NewMed Energy have selected companies to work on competitive front-end engineering and design (FEED) contracts for the planned Leviathan floating LNG (FLNG) production unit for the Mediterranean.

TradeWinds has learned that South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering partnered with engineers Technip and separately Sembcorp Marine of Singapore, working on its own, will undertake parallel FEED work for the unit.