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AES, Tropigas affiliates team up to deliver

LNG by truck in Panama, Costa Rica

PIPELINES & AFFILIATES of US-based AES and Tropigas of LNG to trucks for overland delivery, a pier that
TRANSPORT the Dominican Republic have teamed up to dis- can berth ships with storage capacities of 3,000-
tribute LNG by truck in two Central American 160,000 cubic metres and a 381-MW com-
countries. bined-cycle TPP.
According to press reports from Panama City, Eventually, Tropigas Natural and Colon LNG
Tropigas Natural, the Panamanian division of Marketing hope to expand the LNG distribu-
Tropigas, signed an agreement with Colon LNG tion scheme into other parts of Central Amer-
Marketing, a partnership between AES, Total ica. Guillermo de Roux, the general manager of
(France) and Panama-based Inversiones Bahía, Tropigas Natural, said the partners were keen
on June 1. to make this cleaner-burning fuel more widely
The agreement provides for the companies available in the region.
to work together to deliver LNG to buyers in “With this distribution agreement, we seek to
Panama and Costa Rica. It states that they will supply the growing need of the local and regional
use tanker trucks to distribute fuel to industrial market to produce goods and services through
and business consumers such as thermal power more environmentally friendly fuels [and] also
plants (TPPs), manufacturing facilities, hotels, to generate business development opportunities
food and beverage suppliers and transport associated with this new fuel,” he was quoted as
companies. saying in a company statement.
The partners will source the LNG from AES Miguel Bolinaga, the president of AES Pan-
Colon, an AES subsidiary that has spent around ama, added: “We are pleased with this important
$1.15bn on the construction of a natural gas LNG distribution agreement that will allow us,
complex on Telfers Island, near the Atlantic end together with our new strategic partner, to make
of the Panama Canal. The complex includes an available to Panama and Costa Rica a new fuel
LNG regasification plant, a 180,000-cubic metre that will open new opportunities for the local
gas storage tank, a terminal that can transfer and regional economy.”™

Canada’s Inuvialuit unveil LNG plan

PROJECTS & A corporation representing the Inuvialuit – an The project had first been proposed in the 1970s,
COMPANIES indigenous group in Canada’s western Arctic subsequently scrapped and resurrected in 2004,
region – has unveiled a plan to begin produc- but never got off the ground, with the shale gas
ing LNG in a bid to boost the region’s energy boom and collapse in commodity prices in
security. Under the plan, the Inuvialuit Petro- recent years both diminishing the appetite to
leum Corp. (IPC), a subsidiary of the Inuvialuit develop it.
Regional Corp. (IRC), is teaming up with Ferus The new plan to tap gas in the region has been
Natural Gas Fuels to advance the Inuvialuit spurred by the construction of the all-weather
Energy Security Project. Inuvik-to-Tuktoyaktuk Highway.
The project would The project entails developing the TUK M-18 “You couldn’t do it without that road,” a Mat-
replace the declining well and building a plant to liquefy the produced thews Energy Consulting energy analyst and
Ikhil gas well, which gas. The LNG would then be transported by principal, Doug Matthews, was quoted by CBC
supplies some of truck to Inuvik and other communities for use News as saying. “The local market, which is Tuk,
Inuvik’s energy needs. in heating and power. is not big enough to cover the costs of develop-
The TUK M-18 well, which is located 24 km ing that field. With the road, you can reach other
south of Tuktoyaktuk, was drilled by Devon markets, which changes the economics of the
Energy and Petro-Canada almost 20 years ago. project quite significantly.”
The companies said at the time that the well con- The IPC has said the project would replace
tained in excess of 200bn cubic feet (5.7bn cubic the declining Ikhil gas well, which supplies some
metres) of recoverable gas. of Inuvik’s energy needs. The company is plan-
The broader Beaufort-Delta region where ning to complete the design of the gas plant this
the well is located is thought to have extensive autumn, and submit regulatory applications by
gas reserves, but these have been stranded since the end of 2020. If the project goes ahead and all
the proposed Mackenzie gas project was aban- goes according to plan, the project would enter
doned by the companies developing it in 2017. service in the spring of 2022.™

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