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Karmol vessel arrives offshore Senegal

to launch LNG-to-power project

PROJECTS & KARMOL, a 50:50 joint venture between Kar- MW, or almost 94% of the total, under a contract
COMPANIES powership (Turkey) and Mitsui OSK Lines with Senegal’s national power provider Senelec.
(Japan), has completed the delivery of a marine Its output accounts for 15% of all electricity con-
LNG import terminal to Senegal. sumed in the West African country.
The terminal, which is the first floating According to ALP, the Dutch marine ser-
storage and regasification unit (FSRU) built vices company that towed the LNGT Powership
by Karmol, reached its destination near Dakar Africa from Singapore to Senegal, the FSRU will
last week. It is now in position to implement an be able to start work quickly, since it is already
LNG-to-power plan that will supplement Sene- carrying some LNG. Once the pipeline link is
gal’s generating capacity and facilitate a shift to operational, it will be able to deliver gas to the
cleaner-burning fuels. Karadeniz Powership Ayşegül Sultan, which has
The plan calls for the FSRU, known as the been using heavy fuel oil to generate electric-
LNGT Powership Africa, to establish a pipeline ity. Subsequently, it is due to take delivery of its
connection to the Karadeniz Powership Ayşegül first shipment of LNG from an affiliate of Royal
Sultan, a vessel owned by Karpowership that pro- Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands) in July.
vides Senegal with extra generating capacity. The The FSRU is 272 metres long and has a storage
FSRU will receive shipments of LNG, regasify the capacity of 125,470 cubic metres. It was built for
LNG and then pipe the resulting volumes of gas the Turkish-Japanese joint venture by Sembcorp
to the Karadeniz Powership Ayşegül Sultan. In Marine (Singapore) under a contract that pro-
turn, the latter vessel will use the gas to generate vides for the construction of three such vessels.
electricity for consumption in Senegal. Sembcorp has already started work on the sec-
The Karadeniz Powership Ayşegül Sultan has ond FSRU, which will eventually be deployed
a capacity of 235 MW and is currently using 220 offshore Mozambique.™

AMERICAS

Petrobras rejects the only bid

received for Bahia LNG lease

PROJECTS & BRAZIL’S national oil company (NOC) Petro-
COMPANIES bras revealed earlier this week that it had dis-
qualified US-based Excelerate Energy from
proceeding with its bid for the right to lease an
underutilised LNG import terminal in Bahia
State.
In a statement, Petrobras explained that it had
reviewed Excelerate’s offer on June 14, the same
day that it opened all the commercial proposals
received from the firms participating in the ten-
der. The review revealed that the US-based firm’s
offer for Bahia LNG was conditional upon the Since the US-based company had previously
adoption of new terms governing the termina- signed a declaration expressing its acceptance
tion of the project, it said. of the terms of the tender as stated, from the
The inclusion of this condition served to outset and with no changes, its bid violated that
derail Excelerate’s proposal, the statement said. pledge, it explained. Petrobras gave Excelerate

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