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DMEA TERMINALS & SHIPPING DMEA

Companies to set up Ceyhan

petrochemical terminal

MIDDLE EAST STOLTHAVEN Terminals and Ronesans Hold- Guy Bessant, president of Stolthaven Termi-
ing have announced a partnership agreement to nals, said: “The terminal will initially focus on
jointly develop a new greenfield terminal in Cey- the safe and efficient handling and storage of
han, southern Turkey that will provide storage industrial gases, but early market studies also
and handling services to the Ceyhan Petrochem- indicate that there is potential to develop chemi-
ical Industrial Zone. cal storage capacity to service the Eastern region
The zone in Adana province is being devel- of Turkey, which is currently serviced mainly by
oped by Ronesans Holding. trucks from the West of the country.
The terminal is to initially provide services to “The investment in Turkey, a country with a
Ceyhan Polipropilen Uretim, which is behind growing economy and strong demand for chem-
the first investment being developed within the icals, would be complementary to our existing
Ceyhan Petrochemical Industrial Zone, namely global network and increase the reach of the
a project to construct an installation for the pro- supply chain solutions that we are able to offer
duction of 450,000 tonnes/yr of polypropylene our customers.”
(PP). Oncu Apaydin, managing director of Cey-
LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology has han Petrochemical Industrial Zone, said: “We
been selected for the PP unit. are looking forward to creating significant and
Plans for the terminal include the construc- sustainable value by bringing core skills and the
tion of additional storage capacity. It will likely abilities of both corporations together for the
be added during the project first phase to serve infrastructure development in the Ceyhan Pet-
customers involved in the import and storage of rochemical Industrial Zone by investing in the
liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). terminal.”™

KenGen to study of LNG-to-power project

AFRICA KENYA’S national electricity provider has in or near Mombasa, it reported.
reportedly chosen US-based K&M Advisors as As such, the study will attempt to determine
its contractor for a feasibility study of a proposed whether regasified LNG is a more cost-effective
LNG-to-power project. fuel for power generation than petroleum prod-
K&M Advisors announced the contract ucts in Kenya. (Part of this process will involve
award last week, saying it had agreed to perform scrutinising a number of different potential
this service for state-owned Kenya Electricity suppliers.) It will also examine opportunities for
Generating Co. (KenGen) over a period of 10-12 supplying gas to Kenyan industrial consumers
months. The study will address the viability of that are now relying on residual fuel oil or diesel.
proposals to build an LNG import terminal in Kenya is not currently a producer or con-
the port of Mombasa and examine the potential sumer of natural gas. However, it has expressed
technical, financial, economic, social and envi- interest in importing gas from neighbouring
ronmental impact of such a project, it stated. Tanzania.
Additionally, K&M Advisors will examine More specifically, Kenyan President Uhuru
the cost and viability of various LNG import Kenyatta discussed the possibility of construct-
facilities. These will include onshore terminals ing a cross-border pipeline in May of this year,
and floating storage and regasification units during a meeting with his Tanzanian counter-
(FSRUs), as well as smaller-scale options such as part Samia Suluhu Hassan in Nairobi. At the
rail or truck delivery. time, both Suluhu and Kenyatta described the
The US-based consultancy has not revealed proposed pipeline as part of a wider long-term
the value of the contract. It has said that KenGen initiative that would help the two countries
is looking at plans to build the LNG import ter- share energy resources. They also put the cost of
minal within the framework of a wider effort to building the link along a 600-km route ending in
establish a domestic gas market in Kenya. This Mombasa at around KES121bn ($1.09bn).
initiative would entail converting 10 existing According to Kenyatta, the pipe would allow
generating facilities that burn heavy residual fuel Kenyan TPPs to use gas as fuel for generation,
oil or kerosene to gas, as well as the construction thereby bringing down the cost of power in
of a new gas-fired thermal power plants (TPPs) Kenya and also reducing emissions.™

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