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Two Philippine LNG projects

award EPC contracts

PHILIPPINES THE Philippines is that much closer to becom- slated for the third quarter of 2023, with purging
ing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer this and commissioning activities to follow.
week after two separate import projects awarded The news of AG&P’s award came a day after
engineering contracts. Jacobs revealed that local utility First Gen had
McDermott International announced on awarded it an EPC contract for a floating storage
April 14 that subsidiary CB&I Storage Solutions regasification unit (FSRU) based import project
had won an engineering, procurement and con- located in Batangas City.
struction (EPC) contract from Atlantic Gulf and The project involves the modification of an
Pacific Company of Manila (AG&P) for a ter- existing liquid fuel jetty to accommodate both
minal currently under construction in Batangas an FSRU and LNG carriers.
Province. The scope of works includes modifications to
CB&I will provide the first of two 60,000 the jetty head, berthing and mooring facilities;
cubic metre full containment steel LNG tanks a trestle bridge with high-pressure gas pipeline
along with geotechnical investigation, soil and utilities; and a jetty monitoring building
improvement, foundation and topside platform and control room. Jacobs will be responsible for
structure, pre-commissioning, purging and a design review, project management and super-
commissioning activities. vision of the project’s construction.
AG&P’s proposed $315mn LNG import facil- First Gen last week signed a five-year charter
ity, which received a notice to proceed from the deal with BW Gas for the 162,400 cubic metre
Department of Energy (DOE) in March, will BW Paris FSRU. The Philippine utility said on
supply gas to the 1,200-MW Ilijan gas-fired ther- April 5 that it expected to begin importing LNG
mal power plant (TPP). Ilijan is one of several by the third quarter of 2022, allowing it to feed
TPPs on the island of Luzon to rely on gas sup- about 2 GW of gas-fired generating that is also
plies from the offshore Malampaya field, which is reliant on feedstock from Malampaya.™
projected to run dry before the end of the decade.
McDermott said mechanical completion was

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