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Gunvor to supply Vietnamese

LNG-to-power project

VIETNAM COMMODITY trader Gunvor International with commercial operational delivery (COD)
and US-based Energy Capital Vietnam have slated for 2025. The FSRU will handle around
signed a deal that will ensure feedstock supply for 1.5mn tonnes per year (tpy) of LNG and will be
another Vietnamese liquefied natural gas (LNG) able to increase this through future development
to power project. phases.
Gunvor said on December 8 that the two The project joins a growing line of LNG-to-
companies would form a joint venture that power projects that have moved closer to reali-
would trade and ship LNG on ECV’s behalf, sation in recent weeks.
with long-term supplies to come from Gunvor’s General Electric (GE) signed an MoU with
portfolio. Vietnam’s EVN Genco3 in November to develop
The LNG will be used to supply an LNG-to- the Long Son LNG-to-power project, also slated
power project in Binh Thuan Province, which is to start up by 2025, in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province.
currently being developed by a consortium led GE will be contracted to install the gas turbine
by ECV. ECV chairman and CEO David Lewis technology and certain other equipment.
said the commodity giant would source the LNG PetroVietnam Power and a Vietnamese con-
from the US, thereby helping to improve the pro- struction firm, meanwhile, reportedly signed up
ject’s economics. Japan’s Tokyo Gas and Marubeni to build a sim-
The multi-phase power project will connect ilar project in Quang Ninh Province. The power
via subsea pipeline to an offshore floating stor- plant will have a capacity of 1,500 MW.
age and regasification unit (FSRU). The consor- Japan’s JERA, ExxonMobil and the city of Hai
tium aims to reach a final investment decision Phong signed an MoU to collaborate on another
(FID) on the project’s first phase in late 2021, potential LNG-to-power project in October.™

HYDROGEN

AGN announces first green

hydrogen production

AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN Gas Networks (AGN) has the first quarter of 2021 and we look forward to
announced the first green hydrogen production resuming the final stages of commissioning in
from its renewable gas facility in South Australia. early 2021.”
AGN, which is part of Australian Gas Infra- When the project is up and running AGIG
structure Group (AGIG), said on December expects it to supply around 700 residential cus-
7 that production had taken place during the tomers with blended 5% renewable gas.
commissioning of a 1.25-MW proton exchange The company is also in the detailed engineer-
membrane (PEM) electrolyser at its Hydrogen ing and design phase for a hydrogen production
Park South Australia (HyP SA) project. plant in Queensland, with a target start-up date
AGIG CEO Ben Wilson said, however, that of 2022. Moreover, it reiterated its desire this
final commissioning of the AUD11.4mn plant week to introduce hydrogen into Victoria’s gas
would be pushed into the New Year owing to networks via the Australian Hydrogen Centre.
coronavirus (COVID-19) related challenges Australia is pushing to became a serious
during commissioning. He said the decision player in the blue and green hydrogen space,
had arisen out of staffing challenges connected to with the government having recently thrown
the approaching holiday period. The delays are its weight behind the technology. Hydrogen is
expected from personnel having to “take time seen as not just a means of ensuring the future of
and meet any mandatory quarantine require- the country’s gas producers, but also as a means
ments to travel back home”. of repurposing the country’s gas grid, which is
He added: “This decision means we have increasingly at risk of becoming defunct in the
reforecast our aim to deliver Australia’s first face of a wholesale switch to renewable power
renewable gas blend to households from 2020 to solutions.™

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