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Karmol vessel arrives offshore
Senegal for LNG-to-power project
AFRICA KARMOL, a 50:50 joint venture between Kar- MW, or almost 94% of the total, under a contract
powership (Turkey) and Mitsui OSK Lines with Senegal’s national power provider Senelec.
(Japan), has completed the delivery of a marine Its output accounts for 15% of all electricity con-
LNG import terminal to Senegal. sumed in the West African country.
The terminal, which is the first floating According to ALP, the Dutch marine ser-
storage and regasification unit (FSRU) built vices company that towed the LNGT Powership
by Karmol, reached its destination near Dakar Africa from Singapore to Senegal, the FSRU will
last week. It is now in position to implement an be able to start work quickly, since it is already
LNG-to-power plan that will supplement Sene- carrying some LNG.
gal’s generating capacity and facilitate a shift to Once the pipeline link is operational, it will
cleaner-burning fuels. be able to deliver gas to the Karadeniz Powership
The plan calls for the FSRU, known as the Ayşegül Sultan, which has been using heavy fuel
LNGT Powership Africa, to establish a pipeline oil to generate electricity. Subsequently, it is due
connection to the Karadeniz Powership Ayşegül to take delivery of its first shipment of LNG from
Sultan, a vessel owned by Karpowership that an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell (UK/Nether-
provides Senegal with extra generating capacity. lands) in July.
The FSRU will receive shipments of LNG, The FSRU is 272 metres long and has a storage
regasify the LNG and then pipe the resulting vol- capacity of 125,470 cubic metres. It was built for
umes of gas to the Karadeniz Powership Ayşegül the Turkish-Japanese joint venture by Sembcorp
Sultan. Marine (Singapore) under a contract that pro-
In turn, the latter vessel will use the gas to vides for the construction of three such vessels.
generate electricity for consumption in Senegal. Sembcorp has already started work on the
The Karadeniz Powership Ayşegül Sultan has second FSRU, which will eventually be deployed
a capacity of 235 MW and is currently using 220 offshore Mozambique.
PIPELINES
TurkStream gas flow
suspended for maintenance
MIDDLE EAST THE natural gas flow through both offshore between Gazprom and Turkish state pipeline
lines of the TurkStream pipeline will be tem- operator BOTAS to execute the project.
porarily halted from June 22 until June 29 for It was initially conceived comprising four
annual maintenance and routine diagnostics, strings each carrying 15.75 bcm per year orig-
project company TurkStream has announced. inating at Russkaya in western Russia and first
The works will be carried out by South Stream following the route of the predecessor project
Transport, the operator of the offshore pipeline before diverting to Kiyikoy on Turkey’s Black
system. Sea coast and running inland to Luleburgaz and
TurkStream consists of two 930-km-long on to Ipsala on the Greek border.
offshore lines stretching from Russia to Turkey
across the Black Sea, and two separate onshore
lines with lengths of 142 km and 70 km.
Each pipeline has an annual capacity of
15.75bn cubic metres (bcm).
The first line is designated for supplies to Tur-
key’s domestic customers, while the second line
carries gas further afield in Europe via Bulgaria.
Shortly after the South Stream project
was scuppered by persistent opposition from
Brussels, the original memorandum of under-
standing (MoU) was signed in December 2014
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