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New Fortress Energy to

apply Honeywell LNG pre-
treatment technologies on

in the Mariveles municipality in Bataan 400mn cubic feet (11.3mn cubic metres) of fast LNG
Province, some 60 km north of the country’s natural gas per day.
capital Manila. Cartagena-based SPEC LNG unveiled its Honeywell has announced that New Fortress
The Philippines is looking to expand LNG- plans on January 30, explaining that it had Energy Inc. will use a series of technologies
to-power capacity to 3 GW over the coming asked gas market participants for input on from Honeywell UOP to remove various
years, to offset production decline at the the matter. “Today we launched a market contaminants from natural gas prior to
Malampaya gas field in the South China Sea. survey to evaluate the expansion of our LNG liquefaction at its Fast LNG projects.
The field is due to reach depletion by 2027. regasification terminal, in order to determine Each project is a nominal 1.4 million tpy
At the same time, the country is looking to the interest of agents in the energy and gas LNG gas treating and liquefaction plant.
ramp up domestic exploration for gas, to meet sector in services that our infrastructure could Honeywell UOP will provide engineering
growing power demand and phase out coal. provide,” it said in a post on Twitter. services and process technology which will
The Philippines has turned its attention to In a separate statement, the company pre-treat feed gas at the facilities.
the LNG market as the Malampaya gas field explained that it had asked players in the gas “Honeywell’s ready-now technology allows
in the South China Sea is anticipated to be market to reply to its non-binding expression for the critical removal of impurities from
depleted by 2027. of interest (EoI) between January 30 and natural gas streams through the use of the
Samat LNG expects to bring its terminal February 20. It further stated that the EoI was most reliable, efficient, and cost-effective
into commercial use in the first half of 2025. designed to assess the feasibility of averting technology which translates directly to greater
It will be capable of bringing ashore 200,000- potential gas shortages in Colombia in 2027- throughput and reduced utility consumption,”
400,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of LNG, for 2028 by expanding the terminal’s capacity in said Bryan Glover, President, Honeywell UOP.
use at small-scale power plants in the area, two phases – to 450 mmcf (12.74 mcm) per Honeywell UOP is a global leader in
as well as manufacturing plants and in the day by the end of 2023 and then to 530 mmcf gas processing technologies. Its solutions
transportation sector. (15.01 mcm) per day by the second half of for contaminant removal and hydrocarbon
Three such terminals that have been 2026. management are used in the production of
approved by the government are due to This initiative “aims to assess the market approximately 40% of the world’s LNG. These
come online this year. Among the developers participants´ demand for the potential technologies are optimised for onshore and
are Singapore-based Atlantic, Gulf and additional capacity and advance to a final offshore natural gas conditioning, treating,
Pacific, and the Philippines’ First Gen Corp. investment decision [FID] involving the natural gas liquids recovery, LNG pre-
A terminal being developed by Australia’s foreseen expansion plans,” the statement said. treatment, and synthesis gas purification
Energy World Corp is nearing completion. It did not reveal when SPEC LNG hoped from single unit to highly integrated, multiple
Linseed Field Corp. is aiming to complete to reach the FID stage, but it did assert that technology operations.
its first integrated LNG import terminal in expansion would “strengthen and ensure the Honeywell recently committed to achieve
March, with commercial operation slated to medium- and long-term supply of natural carbon neutrality in its operations and
begin in April. gas in Colombia, [which is] key for assuring a facilities by 2035. This commitment builds
Philippine authorities have rejected that the path to the energy transition.” on the company’s track record of sharply
government’s embrace of LNG will deter the SPEC LNG manages the terminal – which reducing the greenhouse gas intensity of
development of renewables, arguing that gas- is based on the Hoegh Grace, a floating its operations and facilities as well as its
fired power generation can serve as a baseload storage and regasification unit (FSRU) decades-long history of innovation to help
source of electricity to support the deployment anchored near the port of Cartagena – on its customers meet their environmental
of renewables that is cleaner than coal. behalf of Promigas, a Colombian natural and social goals. Approximately 60% of
gas transportation company, and its partner Honeywell’s new product introduction
Vopak, a Dutch operator of tank storage research and development investment is
SPEC LNG seeks to assess facilities. The Hoegh Grace receives LNG, directed toward products that improve
environmental and social outcomes for
regasifies it and then transfers the gas to a 9.2-
gas market players’ interest km pipeline for delivery to shore for further customers.
transport to local thermal power plants

in expansion of Cartagena (TPPs). These TPPs have an installed capacity
of 2,000 MW, equivalent to 60% of Colombia’s
import terminal total gas-fired electricity generating capacity.
The terminal has been in operation since
Sociedad Portuaria El Cayao (SPEC LNG), December 2016, with the Hoegh Grace serving
the operator of Colombia’s only LNG import under a charter contract the entire time. To date,
terminal, is trying to assess the level of interest SPEC LNG has taken delivery of 35 LNG cargoes
in proposals for expansion of the facility, via ship-to-ship (STS) transfers.
which is currently capable of handling around

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