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EDP receives first LNG shipment in El
Salvador via ship-to-ship transfer
PROJECTS & BW LNG, a subsidiary of Singapore-based first vessel of its kind to be deployed in Central
COMPANIES BW Group, reported earlier this week that the America.
Energía del Pacífico (EDP) joint venture had BW LNG is a shareholder in the EDP joint
received its first shipment of LNG via ship-to- venture, which was formed to operate the FSRU;
ship (STS) transfer in El Salvador. the other partner in the venture is Invenergy
The company revealed via social media posts (US). EDP will pump regasified LNG to shore via EDP will pump
that the transfer took place on April 1, when the a 2-km pipeline so that it can be used as fuel for
BW Tatiana floating storage and regasification a 378-MW thermal power plant (TPP) that the regasified LNG
unit (FSRU) completed the STS operation near joint venture has been building in Acajutla. The
the port of Acajutla. It said that EDP had moved total cost of establishing the system that includes to shore via a
125,000 cubic metres of LNG from the Bilbao the FSRU, the pipeline and the TPP has been esti-
Knutsen, a Spanish-flagged tanker owned by mated at $1bn, making it the biggest private-sec- 2-km pipeline
Norway’s Knutsen, to the FSRU. tor investment initiative in El Salvador. so that it can be
BW LNG described the transfer as a “mile- Eventually the TPP will be able to turn out
stone operation” and thanked all of the crew enough electricity to cover around 30% of El used as fuel for a
members involved in the process. Salvador’s demand. It will also be connected to
The company did not provide any further the Central American Electrical Interconnec- 378-MW thermal
information about the LNG delivery. But LNG tion System (known as CAIES), which links the
Prime said, citing the Bilbao Knutsen’s AIS data power grids of El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicara- power plant.
as reported by VesselsValue, that the LNG loaded gua, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama via a
into the 137,000 cubic metre FSRU had been 230-kV transmission line.
produced by the Atlantic LNG plant in Port For- EDP has pointed out that the LNG-to-power
tin, Trinidad and Tobago. project will help El Salvador reduce its carbon
The BW Tatiana is a converted LNG car- footprint by expanding domestic natural gas
rier formerly known as the Gallina and previ- consumption. The joint venture’s new gas-fired
ously owned by Shell (UK). The FSRU is able to TPP is slated to replace older power stations that
regasify LNG at the rate of up to 280mn cubic burn a dirtier type of petroleum-based fuel –
feet (7.93mn cubic metres) per day and is the namely, residual fuel oil.
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