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Equatorial Guinea hopes Noble can launch Alen field by end-2020
PROJECTS & COMPANIES
Gas from the Alen eld will help the Equatorial Guinea LNG plant on Bioko Island secure adequate feedstock.
THE government of Equatorial Guinea has said that it hopes Noble Energy (US) and its partners will be able to launch production at the o shore Alen eld before the end of this year.
Noble had originally planned to bring Alen on stream in the rst quarter of 2021, but the Equatoguinean Ministry of Mines and Hydro- carbons indicated in late January that it was hop- ing for an earlier start date. “E orts are underway to accelerate [Alen] gas for delivery by year-end 2020, while currently scheduled for rst quarter 2021,” the ministry said in a statement distrib- uted by the African Energy Chamber.
Gas from the eld will help the Equatorial Guinea LNG (EG LNG) plant on Bioko Island secure adequate feedstock, the ministry said, according to S&P Global Platts. The facility needs a new supplier because its main source of gas – the Alba eld, operated by Marathon Energy (US) – is maturing and producing less.
As of press time, neither Noble Energy nor
EG LNG (nor shareholders in the latter project) had con rmed the report. Noble’s web page still lists the start date for production at Alen as the rst quarter of 2021.
e Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons has said that the EG LNG back ll project will make use of gas from two o shore elds, Alen and Aseng. Both contain “stranded” gas reserves; that is, they hold sizeable amounts of gas that have been di cult to develop economically.
Alba, by contrast, has been furnishing gas to EG LNG’s single production train, with a capac- ity of 3.7mn tonnes per year (tpy), for years. It has also supplied gas to the other two facilities in the Punto Europa complex – namely, a methanol plant and a gas- red thermal power plant (TPP).
EG LNG exports lique ed gas via tanker from its Punto Europa terminal. is facility has two storage tanks with a capacity of 145,000 cubic metres and a 350-metre bridge that is the world’s rst LNG pipe-rack suspension bridge.™
AMERICAS
Lithuania’s Klaipedos Nafta contracted to operate LNG import terminal in Brazil
PROJECTS & COMPANIES
LITHUANIAN oil and gas company Klaipedos Na a has been contracted to operate an LNG gas terminal in Açu, Brazil, the company said on February 3.
e contract utilises Klaipedos Na a’s expe- rience gained from operating an LNG terminal in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda that became a key element of the Baltic state’s reduction of its dependence on politically charged supplies of Russian gas.
The terminal in Açu is an LNG-to-power project, the largest of its kind in South America, Klaipdeos Na a said. e project includes two natural gas- red power plants with a combined capacity of 3 GW and the LNG import termi- nal with a regasi cation capacity of 21,000 cubic metres a day.
e project also features a oating storage regasi cation unit (FSRU) with a storage capac- ity of 170,000 cubic metres.
Supplies of LNG to the terminal will be the responsibility of BP, which is one of the share- holders of Gas Natural Açu (GNA), the termi- nal’s investor. Other companies with stakes in GNA are Prumo Logistica and Siemens.
The initial term of the agreement is for a 13-year operational period following the com- pletion of the terminal and this can be extended upon mutual agreement. e terminal in Açu is due to start operations later this year.
e Brazilian contract is not Klaipedos Na a’s rst in South America. e company supported the construction and commissioning of an LNG terminal in the port of Cartagena, Colombia, in 2015-2016. A Klaipedos Na a team provided advisory services concerning technical condi- tions of the port and terminal operations, risk and security management, as well as training of key specialists.™
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