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(Image: HBS)
Details of Firebird LNG

project becoming clearer

Phoenix Development Co. seems to be settling on plans for building an offshore pipeline

to serve an onshore LNG plant in Suriname, as well as its two onshore facilities in Nickerie

BACK in mid-February, Phoenix Development facilities, which PDC is set to build in co-oper-
Co. (PDC), a Houston-based group set up by ation with Havenbeheer Suriname (HBS), the
WHAT: investors from multiple countries, was talking port authority of Paramaribo – for local use,
PDC’s FEED study up its plans for using of associated gas from off- with the remaining volumes going to the LNG
will cover an onshore shore oilfields in the Guyana-Suriname basin. plant. The latter facility is slated to have a single
gas-receiving facility and In a statement, it revealed that it had signed production train with a capacity of 4mn tonnes
an LNG plant and export a contract with Dallas-based Schwob Energy per year (tpy).
facility. Services (SES) for front-end engineering and At that time, the exact parameters of the pro-
design (FEED) services on an offshore gas hub ject were not clear. That is, it was not immedi-
WHY: and LNG plant in Suriname. It said SES had ately evident whether PDC intended to establish
The company’s recent agreed to help draw up plans for the construc- some type of gas liquefaction facility offshore,
statements have helped
clarify which facilities tion of a hub consisting of delivery, storage and in the vicinity of the hub, or build an LNG plant
will be built onshore. off-loading facilities, as well as a gas liquefaction onshore.
plant and pipeline connections. Since then, the company has issued state-
WHAT NEXT: The company stressed that the hub would ments clarifying its LNG plans, which were
Firebird LNG will need to be able to receive gas from both sides of the drawn up in co-operation with Make a Differ-
ensure access to gas to maritime border between Guyana and Suri- ence Ventures (MAD), a clean energy invest-
guarantee its success. name. It also said the facility could send some ment platform based in Idaho. It is now talking
gas to two onshore facilities – the Deep-Water in definitive terms about building a subsea pipe-
Port (DWP) and Special Economic Zone (SEZ) line to transport gas to onshore facilities.

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