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TC Energy says Coastal GasLink

pipeline is more than 64% complete

PIPELINES CALGARY-BASED TC Energy has reported TC Energy is building the Coastal GasLink
that work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline, pipeline along a 670-km route through Brit-
which will deliver natural gas to the LNG Canada ish Columbia, running from Dawson Creek to
terminal in British Columbia, was approximately Kitimat. The conduit will pump gas from the
64.2% complete as of the end of June, compared Montney Formation to a gas liquefaction plant
with 62.4% as of the end of May. built by a five-member consortium headed by
approximately 64.2% complete as of the end Shell (UK). It will be able to handle at least 2.1bn
of June, compared with 62.4% as of the end of cubic feet (59.47mn cubic metres) per day of gas,
May. though throughput may rise later to as much as 5
In its latest monthly update on the project, TC bcf (141.6 mcm) per day.
Energy said it was continuing to make progress. The LNG Canada plant will have a produc-
“The summer construction season is quickly tion capacity of 14mn tonnes per year (tpy) of
ramping up, with more than 6,000 women and LNG. When finished, it will export most of its
men expected to work along Coastal GasLink’s output to Asian markets.
project route at its peak,” it stated. Both Coastal GasLink and LNG Canada have
The company described the summer as its generated significant amounts of controversy
“most important construction season yet” and within British Columbia. This is partly because of
said it was mobilising construction crews to vari- concerns about the environmental impact of the
ous locations along the route of the pipeline. One projects, but it also stems from the fact that the
of the sites that has received special attention is pipeline will pass through the traditional lands
Cable Crane Hill, where workers have started of several First Nations communities, including
using a cable crane to transport a section of pipe some territories that have not been ceded to the
up a particularly steep hill for the first time, it Canadian government.™
noted.

Peru LNG reports falls in exports in June

EXPORTS PERU LNG, the operator of a natural gas liq- Hope to deliver their LNG to a buyer in Asia.
uefaction plant and export terminal in Pampa The Peru LNG consortium has loaded and
Melchorita, saw export volumes decline month delivered a total of 678 cargoes of LNG since its
on month in June. launch in June 2010.
According to Peru’s national oil company The group operates a complex that includes
(NOC) Perupetro, the Peru LNG consortium a 4.45mn tonne per year (tpy) gas liquefaction
loaded five vessels with 335,203 tonnes of LNG plant built by Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. (CBI)
in the month of June. This represented a fall of and a marine terminal constructed by a consor-
around 7.9% on the figure reported for the pre- tium known as CDB. (This group includes Italy’s
vious month, when the group loaded five vessels Saipem, Luxembourg’s Jan de Nul and Brazil’s
with 363,836 tonnes of LNG. Odebrecht.)
Perupetro did not provide a comparative fig- The complex also incorporates a storage
ure from June 2021. It is likely that the June 2022 depot with two 130,000-cubic metre tanks and
figure is higher, as Peru LNG spent part of the a 34-inch (860-mm) natural gas pipeline. This
period between May and September last year pipe handles gas from fields in the Cusco region
offline owing to technical problems. that are being developed by YPF, the national oil
Of the five cargoes dispatched in June 2022, company (NOC) of Argentina, and Repsol of
all were originally destined for the UK, but at Spain. The link runs for 408 km from Chiquin-
least two changed course after leaving port. One tirca, a town in the Ayacucho region, to the LNG
of these two vessels – the Maran Gas Roxana, a plant.
tanker with a capacity of 173,400 cubic metres – Peru LNG was established by US-based Hunt
was reported to be sailing in the Indian Ocean Oil along with three other companies. Equity in
off the coast of Madagascar as of July 5. The other the project is split between Hunt Oil, with 50%;
– the Madrid Spirit, a tanker with a capacity of SK Energy (South Korea), 20%; Shell (UK),
135,423 cubic metres – was reported to have 20% and Marubeni (Japan), 10%. The partners
changed course in the South Atlantic Ocean off- spent $3.8bn to build the Pampa Melchorita
shore Brazil last week. Both vessels are believed complex.™
to have set a course around the Cape of Good

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