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Perupetro says Peru LNG complex saw exports rise in August
Peru’s national oil company (NOC) Peru- petro said last week that it had seen LNG exports from the terminal in Pampa Melchorita rise year on year last month.
The terminal, which is part of a complex built by the US company Hunt Oil and its partners, is known as Peru LNG. According to Perupetro, the terminal loaded six vessels with 899,136 cubic metres of LNG in August. is marks an increase of nearly 117% on the gure posted in the same month of 2018, when the terminal loaded two tankers with 283,703 cubic metres of LNG.
Peru LNG’s export volumes also rose by 24% month on month in August, Perupetro noted. It stated that the terminal had loaded ve vessels with 724,858 cubic metres of LNG in July.
The NOC went on to say that Peru LNG had loaded and dispatched 532 cargoes of LNG since its launch in June 2010. Of the six cargoes launched in August 2019, one went to Spain, two to South Korea and three to China, it added.
Peru LNG spent $3.8bn on the construction of the Pampa Melchorita facility. e complex includes a 4.45mn tonne per year (tpy) gas liq- uefaction plant, built by Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. (CBI), and a marine terminal, built by a consortium known as CDB. ( e group consists of Italy’s Saipem, Luxemburg’s Jan de Nul and Brazil’s Odebrecht.)
Additionally, it houses a storage depot that includes two 130,000 cubic metre tanks and a gas supply pipeline.
e latter handles gas from elds operated by Spain’s Repsol and the Argentinian NOC YPF in the Cusco region. It is a 34-inch (860- mm) pipe that follows a 408-km route from Chiquintirca, a town in the Ayacucho region, to the gas liquefaction plant.
Equity in the Peru LNG project is split between Hunt Oil with 50%; SK Energy (South Korea) with 20%; Royal Dutch Shell (UK-Neth- erlands) with 20% and Marubeni (Japan) with 10%.
Brazil wraps up first round of Open Acreage programme auctions
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“Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Nat- ural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) has successfully concluded its first bidding round under the Open Acreage programme. On September 10, it auctioned o exploration rights to 33 oil and gas elds.
As of press time, ANP had not named all winners of the bidding contests, which covered both onshore and o shore licence areas. But it did say that it had received bids from the Brazil- ian unit of the US giant ExxonMobil, as well as several independent domestic companies.
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