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New Fortress Energy expects to bring two
Brazilian LNG terminals on stream in 2023
TERMINALS REPRESENTATIVES of US-based New Fortress Babitonga Bay, at a site 300 metres offshore from
Energy (NFE) reported during a recent confer- the city of São Francisco do Sul.
ence call on its performance in the second quar- Meanwhile, NFE executives also reported sig-
ter of 2022 that it was nearly finished with the nificant progress on the Barcarena LNG terminal
establishment of two new LNG import terminals project. They said the facility was nearly com-
in Brazil. plete and would be ready to launch operations in
In the call, NFE executives said that work on 2023. This will allow the company to uphold its
the offshore Santa Catarina LNG terminal was commitment to begin supplying regasified LNG
very nearly complete. Specifically, they stated to Alunorte, an aluminium refinery owned by
that the facility was about 90% ready and was due Norsk Hydro (Norway), under a 15-year con-
to be finished in the fourth quarter of 2022 and tract signed in December 2021, they noted.
then launched in the first quarter of 2023. The executives went on to say that NFE had
The executives did not comment extensively started construction work on the 605-MW Bar-
on the Santa Catarina LNG project, which is also carena TPP, which will also use gas imported via
known as Terminal Gás Sul (TGS). This terminal the Barcarena terminal, in the second quarter of
will be linked to shore via a 33-km subsea pipe- 2022. Wes Edens, the founder and CEO of the
line, which will then be connected to the Gasbol company, noted that the power station was slated
pipeline, the Brazilian section of a larger system to deliver electricity to local customers under a
that pumps imported Bolivian gas into Brazil’s 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) linked
national pipeline network. These links will allow to JKM, a Brazilian metallurgical concern, and
TGS to handle shipments of feedstock bound for described the PPAs as “super attractive” for NFE.
gas-fired thermal power plant (TPPs) in Santa Edens also suggested that his company might
Catarina, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul states. be able to deliver gas from its upstream projects
The terminal will be based on a floating stor- in the Gulf of Mexico to the Brazilian terminals
age and regasification unit (FSRU) that is capable in the future. Deliveries could start around mid-
of handling the equivalent of 15mn cubic metres 2025, he said, without elaborating.
per day of gas. The vessel has been installed in
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