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maintenance of a Floating Storage Unit
(FSU) at AG&P’s new LNG import facility located within Karaikal Port in Puducherry, India. The 137,756 cubic metre FSU owned
by ADNOC L&S is being chartered for 15 years through an innovative commercial model enabling supply to be scaled to match demand. Construction on the terminal will begin in Q1 2020 with commercial operations expected to commence before the end of 2021.
The Karaikal FSU will be only the 4th FSUbased LNG import terminal in the world, after those in Malta, Malaysia and Bahrain. ADNOC L&S will provide a Japan-built, Moss-type containment vessel as FSU for the project from its fleet of eight LNG ships.
“This agreement with Atlantic Gulf & Pacific is significant for ADNOC Logistics
& Services in a number of ways,” said Abdulkareem Al Masabi, CEO of ADNOC L&S. “Firstly, it represents our first agreement with AG&P and one of our company’s most important goals is to find creative ways to branch out and find new partnerships around the world to fuel our company’s safer, smarter growth. It is also an important agreement because it provides AG&P with additional storage flexibility for their LNG terminal as well as giving us the chance to generate more value from one of our historical assets which is coming to the end of its current contract.”
Owned and operated by AG&P, the LNG import facility at the Karaikal Port will have initial capacity of 1mn tonnes per annum (mtpa) which will be expanded to 3 mtpa
in the medium term as demand increases. The terminal will serve domestic, industrial and commercial customers within a 500km radius, including the heavily industrialised region of central Tamil Nadu, which has major manufacturing clusters for the fertiliser, cement, steel, textile, leather, sugar and garment industries. In addition, it will serve
gas-fired power plants as well as AG&P’s own extensive city gas distribution network across South India.
ATLANTIC GULF & PACIFIC, February 11, 2020
GAS-FIRED GENERATION
ADPower, Marubeni form consortium to develop new 2.4GW power plant in Fujairah
Abu Dhabi Power Corporation (ADPower) and Japan-based Marubeni Corporation have announced the formation of a consortium to develop the Fujairah F3 independent power producer (IPP) project, which will be the largest independent thermal power plant in the UAE.
The Fujairah F3 IPP project includes
the development, financing, construction, operation, maintenance and ownership of a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant, together with associated infrastructure.
Located in the Fujairah water and electricity complex, between the existing Fujairah F1 and Fujairah F2 water and electricity plants, the Fujairah F3 IPP project will have a contracted power capacity of 2.4GW, bringing ADPower’s current power generation capacity to 20.4GW. Once operational, Fujairah F3’s capacity will be able to power the equivalent of 380,000 households.
Jasim Husain Thabet, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of ADPower, said: “Our ambition is to transform Abu Dhabi’s water and electricity sector into a reliable, efficient, sustainable and value-
generating system that optimises our robust portfolio of assets and creates unique partnership opportunities. The F3 IPP Project represents a significant milestone in this journey, deploying world-class technology and efficiency standards to meet the UAE’s evolving power needs. We are delighted to announce Marubeni Corporation as our partner in the F3 Fujairah IPP project.”
SOLAR
Rio Tinto to build first solar plant in WA
Rio Tinto has approved a A$98mn ($66mn) investment in a new solar plant at the Koodaideri mine in the Pilbara, Australia, as well as a lithium-ion battery energy storage system to help power its entire Pilbara power network.
The 34MW solar photovoltaic plant
is expected to supply all of Koodaideri’s electricity demand during peak solar power generation times and approximately 65 per cent of the mine’s average electricity demand.
The plant, Rio Tinto’s first company- owned solar facility, will consist of an estimated 100,000 panels, covering an area
of 105 hectares. Construction is expected to begin later this year, subject to government approvals, and is due to be completed in 2021.
Complementing it will be a new 12MWh battery energy storage system in Tom Price that will provide spinning reserve generating capacity to support a stable and reliable network.
The solar plant and battery are estimated to lower annual carbon dioxide emissions
by about 90,000 tonnes compared to conventional gas powered generation. This is the equivalent of taking about 28,000 cars off the road.
Rio Tinto Iron Ore chief executive Chris Salisbury said “The construction of our first solar plant in the Pilbara is a significant milestone for the business and an important step in reducing our carbon footprint in the region.
“We are investigating additional renewable energy options in the Pilbara, as well as other opportunities to reduce emissions across our entire global portfolio, building on the 43 per cent reduction in absolute greenhouse gas emissions since 2008.”
Rio Tinto is working to define new emissions reduction targets from 2020 as part of our transition to a lower carbon world. stern Australia to power iron ore mine
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