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British Columbia to study
proposal to build LNG ship-
refuelling facility
e BC government is putting CAD25,000 toward studying the environmental and social impacts of a proposal for an LNG ship- refuelling facility in Delta.
ere are currently ve BC Ferries and two Seaspan cargo ferries receiving LNG from
the Fortis BC Tilbury facility, but these are refuelled by truck. Under the proposal, the site would be expanded to make it possible for vessels to be topped-up with LNG from another ship, supplied at the facility on the Fraser River.
e ship-to-ship facility would be the rst of its kind on the West Coast of North America.
e BC government said in a statement that replacing diesel fuel with LNG can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20%, but that the reduction is even steeper when using LNG created using power from the province’s electrical grid. is is what Fortis is doing at its Tilbury site.
e plan comes as the global maritime industry is stepping up its use of LNG-fuelled vessels in response to new regulations on
the sulphur content of marine fuel that are coming into force in January 2020.
Qilak LNG executes heads of
agreement with ExxonMobil
for the supply of Alaskan
North Slope natural gas to
new LNG export project
Alaska-based Qilak LNG, a Lloyds Energy company, announced today that a heads of agreement (HoA) has been entered into with ExxonMobil Alaska Production regarding the potential supply of natural gas from
the Point omson eld to Qilak LNG’s proposed Alaska North Slope lique ed natural gas (LNG) export project. e HOA foresees ExxonMobil providing at least 560mn standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) of natural gas to Phase 1 of the Qilak LNG
1 Project, based on the design concept
of o shore liquefaction and loading, and icebreaking LNG carriers, to export 4 million tonnes per year (mtpa) of LNG over a 20-year term.
“ e Qilak LNG 1 Project would deliver on Alaska’s long-held goal of commercializing North Slope natural gas,” said former Alaska Lt. Governor Mead Treadwell, Chairman and CEO of Qilak LNG. “With this HOA and our recently completed pre-feasibility study, Qilak will now begin extensive feasibility e orts, including preliminary permitting, with a target of reaching Final Investment Decision (FID) by 2021.”
e Qilak LNG 1 Project seeks to capitalise
on recent developments in Arctic LNG technology allowing natural gas to be directly exported from the North Slope of Alaska. is concept would signi cantly reduce the capital cost compared to projects that require a long- distance pipeline and a large minimum LNG order. Phase 1 of the Qilak LNG 1 Project would have an export capacity of 4 MTPA, with the option for additional capacity to come online in future phases as determined by gas supply and global demand.
Qilak LNG targets delivery of gas to
Asian markets, including Japan, with competitive shipping costs compared to many other sources of LNG in the US and other global LNG projects. Qilak LNG is also in discussions in several Asian countries to engage potential stakeholders in various parts of the Qilak LNG 1 project.
QILAK LNG, October 23, 2019
FERC issues Commonwealth
LNG’s Notice of Schedule
for Environmental Review
Commonwealth LNG is pleased to announce that the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued Notice of Schedule for Environmental Review. e project encompasses the construction of one lique ed natural gas plant, including six gas liquefaction trains and appurtenant facilities. Each train will have a liquefaction design capacity of approximately 1.4mn metric tonnes per annum (mtpa) for a total nominal liquefaction capacity of 8.4 mtpa.
Located on the west side of the Calcasieu Ship Channel, near the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, the project will include six LNG storage tanks each with a capacity of 40,000 m3, one marine loading berth capable of loading LNG carriers up to a capacity of 216,000 m3, and a 3.04-mile long, 30-inch diameter pipeline that will connect the LNG Facility with existing intrastate and interstate pipelines for the purpose of supplying gas
to the project. Schedule of Environmental Review: Issuance of the dra EIS in May 2020; Issuance of Notice of Availability of the nal EIS October 2, 2020; 90-day Federal Authorisation Decision Deadline December 31, 2020.
“We are very pleased to receive
FERC’s Issuance of Notice of Schedule for Environmental Review. It con rms that our project remains on schedule to take FID in Q1 2021 and start commercial operations in Q1 2024,” said Paul Varello, Commonwealth LNG’s president and CEO. COMMONWEALTH LNG, October 21, 2019
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