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The project will make use of Integrated Pre- cooled Single Mixed Refrigerant (IPSMR) pro- cess technology and liquefaction equipment from Chart Industries, it added. Chart Indus- tries is a provider of modular and standard gas liquefaction plants and associated process technologies.
When finished, the facility will include a gas liquefaction plant capable of turning out around 1mn tonnes per year (tpy) of LNG. It will also have storage facilities capable of holding large volumes of LNG and loading facilities capable ofhandlingmarineandtruckshipments.
Eagle LNG Partners has said it intends to sell some of its production to buyers in Caribbean states. In its statement, it explained that the Jack- sonville facility would export LNG to these mar- kets by sea in ISO-compliant containers.
Jacksonville LNG will be able to deliver LNG at competitive prices since it is closer to Car- ibbean markets than other suppliers, it noted. Making this alternative fuel available will help
these countries reduce their long-standing dependence on imported petroleum products for power generation, it added.
Dick Brown, the CEO of Eagle LNG Partners, said he was pleased to see the project moving forward. “Eagle LNG is experiencing a growing demand for LNG to serve small-scale export markets, while domestic demand for fuel-grade LNG continues to increase,” he said. “We con- tinue to build out LNG infrastructure across the country to meet these needs. Partnering with Matrix Service and Chart Industries provides servicefromconceptthroughcompletion.”
The complex will also make some of its LNG production available as marine fuel. Together with Eagle LNG Partners’ other facilities in Maxville and Talleyrand, it will be able to offer the lowest-cost LNG bunkering services in the south-eastern US, the statement said.
The company has already begun shipping LNG to Caribbean buyers via the Maxville LNG and Talleyrand LNG facilities, it added.
Karoon Gas ready to drill in Peru
Eagle LNG’s planned cpmplex in Jacksonville (Image: Eagle LNG)
PERU
THE Australian oil and gas company Karoon Gas has said it is ready to drill the Marina-1 exploration well in Peru’s Tumbes Basin along- side its project partners, Tullow Oil and Pitkin Petroleum.
The Stena Forth Drillship has arrived in the Port of Callao in the Peruvian capital Lima, Karoon Gas said in a statement on its website. The drillship is anticipated to remain at the Port of Callao for one to two weeks in order to refuel and change crew before continuing on to the well, which is located in Block Z-38.
Karoon said it expected the final permits to be received over the coming weeks and for the
well to be spudded during the last week of this month.
Block Z-38 lies around 10km off the coast of north-western Peru and covers an area of 4,875 square km. It is adjacent to the onshore fields of the oil-rich Talara Basin, the best-known coastal basin in Peru. Oil has been produced there for more than a century.
The site is estimated to hold around 2.5bn barrels of crude and 3.5tn cubic feet (99.11bn cubic metres) of natural gas.
It includes the Marina prospect, which has an estimated 256mn barrels of oil, as of May 2018, Karoon said.
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