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The pipeline will carry gas from Liza-1 and Liza-2 to shore (Image: ExxonMobil)
One of these surveys will cover a 27-square The surveys are an important part of the
km area that includes a 23.5-km stretch of the preparations for construction of the pipeline
Demerara River from the coast to an upstream connecting Stabroek to shore. The cost of build-
site where a gas-processing plant will be built at ing the link, which will deliver associated gas to
the end of the pipeline, MARAD said. The other an onshore processing facility capable of sepa-
will cover a 285.85-square km offshore site that rating dry gas from natural gas liquids (NGLs),
is about 32.12 km from the mouth of the Deme- may reach $900bn. Guyana intends to use the
rara River, it stated. dry gas to fuel thermal power plants (TPPs). ™

CGX Energy says work on Berbice Deep

Water Port is progressing on schedule

CANADA’S CGX Energy reported last week The company’s next step will be to start
that work on a deepwater port facility that will construction of the oil and gas facility’s wharf
support oil and gas projects in Guyana’s offshore platform and access trestle in September.
zone was proceeding on schedule. In an oper- The site will have a wharf platform that is 200
ational update published earlier this week, the metres long and 30 metres wide and that can be
company said it expected to bring the facility, accessed via a 50-metre trestle. The CGX subsid-
which will serve as the first phase of the Berbice iary will engage in regular dredging operations
Deep Water Port (BDWP), online in mid-2022. in order to ensure that the depth of the berthing
CGX’s subsidiary Grand Canal Industrial area and access channel remains at 7 metres and
Estates (GCIE) is building the facility on a to provide cargo and supply vessels with contin-
30-acre (0.12-square km) site that lies on the uous and unfettered access to the facility.
eastern bank of the Berbice River, next to Crab As noted above, this facility will serve as the
Island. Vessels departing from this site will be first phase of BDWP. The port’s second phase – a
able to reach fields in Guyana’s offshore zone terminal that will handle agricultural, container
in as little as 12 hours, which is much shorter and specialised cargo – is due to become opera-
than the 2.5-day travel time to the regional ports tional by late 2023. The cost of executing the two
now being used by international oil companies phases is anticipated to reach $70mn. Costs will
(IOCs) working in the region. rise if GCIE goes ahead with plans to build heavy
GCIE has already begun carrying out civil lift and fabrication facilities at the port.
works at the site and is currently engaged in the The company is using its own Bramfield
construction of an access road and connecting Logistics Yard, a 16-acre (0.065-square km)
bridge. It is also working to build up the section facility that lies 3.2 km away from the BDWP
of the site that lies directly on the bank of the Ber- construction site, to serve as a base for work on
bice River and is relocating utility infrastructure. the first two phases of the project.

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