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Brazil’s Eneva signs long-term LNG

supply deal with paper manufacturer

SUPPLY ENEVA, a privately owned Brazilian energy industrial gas consumers and was working to
company, announced last week that it had signed replicate this supply model with them. It did not
a long-term LNG supply contract with Suzano, a name any other potential customers but noted
local pulp and paper manufacturer. that it was continuing to build a new LNG import
In a statement, Eneva said it had agreed to terminal in Maranhão State to help satisfy rising
deliver LNG to Suzano for a period of 10 years. demand for the fuel in Brazil.
It described the contract as the first deal in Brazil Last year, Eneva said it was joining forces
that would involve direct deliveries of LNG from with Servtec, a Brazilian investment firm, to
a producer to an industrial consumer and said evaluate several different plans for building the
that shipments were expected to begin in the first LNG terminal in or close to Porto do Itaqui. At
half of 2024, after the completion of a new small- the time, it noted that Servtec had already drawn
scale gas liquefaction plant in Maranhão State. up multiple proposals for the terminal project
The company explained that it intended to and had previously submitted one such plan to
spend BRL530mn on the construction of an Empresa Maranhense de Administração Por-
LNG unit at its Parnaiba gas-to-power (GTP) tuária (EMAP), the port authority of Maranhão
complex in the town of Santo Antonio dos Lopes. State, in response to a call for expressions of
The facility will be able to turn out about 300,000 interest (EoI).
cubic metres per day of LNG, most of which will Eneva also explained that it would not com-
be delivered to Suzano, it said. mit to building the LNG import terminal until it
The LNG will be loaded onto trucks and could carry out technical studies of the project
transported by road to Imperatriz, a town in and assess its economic feasibility. Additionally,
Maranhão where Suzano operates a large pulp it said, the partners would have to complete their
mill, Eneva added. At Imperatriz, the LNG will assessments of the various proposals and obtain
be transferred to a regasification unit so the mill the necessary permits and authorisations.
can use gas as fuel and reduce its carbon dioxide If the companies move forward, it added, they
emissions, it explained. will form a joint venture split between Eneva
The company said in its statement that it with 51% and Servtec with 49%.™
hoped to strike similar agreements with other

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