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Gomes also described TRSP as “the first link natural gas market and will ultimately improve
Brazil will have with the international LNG competition through a better offer of natural gas
market.” in the Brazilian territory.” The industrial group
Cosan expects the project to support the also said that Compass Gas e Energia had drawn
development of Brazil’s domestic gas market. up plans for the terminal within the framework
It said in early August that TRSP would “serve of wider efforts to create “more competitive gas
as an important lever in developing the free and power alternatives [for] its clients.” ™

NFE to deliver LNG to two

Brazilian fertiliser plants

US-BASED New Fortress Energy (NFE) (1.095mn tpy) of urea.
revealed earlier this week that it had agreed to Wes Edens, the chairman and CEO of NFE,
deliver LNG to two fertiliser plants owned by said he expected the GSAs to benefit his com-
Unigel Participações, a major Brazilian chem- pany. “We are excited to become the strategic
ical company. gas supply partner of Unigel, one of the premier
In a statement, NFE said it had signed gas industrial companies in Brazil,” Edens com-
supply agreements (GSAs) with the Unigel sub- mented. “This partnership demonstrates the
sidiaries that operate the Unigel Agro-BA plant value our LNG import terminals will provide
in Bahia state and the Unigel Agro-SE plant in to customers in Brazil as we bring affordable,
Sergipe state. The GSAs also give Unigel the reliable energy supply and support industry
option of working with NFE to ensure gas deliv- throughout Brazil.”
eries to its chemical plant in Candeias, a city in Andrew Dete, NFE’s managing director,
Bahia state, it noted. agreed. “NFE is proud to partner with Unigel to
The GSAs call for NFE to deliver LNG to support domestic fertiliser production in north-
import terminals in Suape and Sergipe, where east Brazil,” he said. “These agreements are great
it can be regasified and loaded into local pipe- examples of NFE’s mission to partner with lead-
lines for delivery to the Unigel plants. The ship- ing industrial customers in Brazil to provide
ments will be carried out over a period of five reliable energy supply.”
years beginning in the first quarter of 2022. The Meanwhile, Unigel CEO Roberto Noronha
US-based company is slated to supply the Brazil- Santos described the GSAs as a means of ensur-
ian company with up to 1.4mn gallons per day of ing regular deliveries of raw materials to the
LNG – equivalent to slightly more than 832,350 fertiliser plants. “We believe that this five-year
tonnes per year (tpy) – during this period. term agreement with NFE will provide a more
The Unigel fertiliser plants will use the regas- reliable, stable operation for our plants in the
ified LNG as feedstock for the production of long run, which is key to improve our compet-
urea. Currently, these two facilities are capable itiveness and solidify our commercial presence
of turning out more than 3,000 tonnes per day in Brazil,” he stated. ™

Some of the LNG will be delivered to the Suape terminal (Photo: New Fortress Energy)

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