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Karmol vessel arrives offshore Senegal

to launch LNG-to-power project

SENEGAL 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. Once the pipeline link is
gal’s generating capacity and facilitate a shift to operational, it will be able to deliver gas to the
cleaner-burning fuels. Karadeniz Powership Ayşegül Sultan, which has
The plan calls for the FSRU, known as the been using heavy fuel oil to generate electric-
LNGT Powership Africa, to establish a pipeline ity. Subsequently, it is due to take delivery of its
connection to the Karadeniz Powership Ayşegül first shipment of LNG from an affiliate of Royal
Sultan, a vessel owned by Karpowership that pro- Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands) in July.
vides Senegal with extra generating capacity. The The FSRU is 272 metres long and has a storage
FSRU will receive shipments of LNG, regasify the capacity of 125,470 cubic metres. It was built for
LNG and then pipe the resulting volumes of gas the Turkish-Japanese joint venture by Sembcorp
to the Karadeniz Powership Ayşegül Sultan. In Marine (Singapore) under a contract that pro-
turn, the latter vessel will use the gas to generate vides for the construction of three such vessels.
electricity for consumption in Senegal. Sembcorp has already started work on the sec-
The Karadeniz Powership Ayşegül Sultan has ond FSRU, which will eventually be deployed
a capacity of 235 MW and is currently using 220 offshore Mozambique.™

NLNG launches work on Train 7

NIGERIA NIGERIA LNG (NLNG) has formally begun was in line with his government’s efforts to pro-
work on the Train 7 project, which is slated to mote the production and domestic consump-
expand the consortium’s total production capac- tion of natural and associated gas. “Through
ity to 30mn tonnes per year (tpy). [the] ‘Decade of Gas’ initiative which I recently
The group marked the start of construction at launched, we will transform Nigeria into a natu-
a ceremony last week. The event was attended by ral gas and industrial nation, with gas playing the
Tony Attah, NLNG’s managing director, as well key role and revenue earner,” he declared.
as Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. Additionally, Buhari noted that NLNG has
Attah said at the event that the project would racked up $114bn in earnings since its launch
cost about $10bn and directly create 12,000 new in 1999. The consortium had also paid $9bn in
jobs. He also stated that the Train 7 initiative taxes and $18bn in dividends to the Nigerian
would help Nigerian companies develop the government over the same period, he added.
capacity to provide more support for the oil and Nigeria’s federal government is represented
gas sector. This is because 100% of the fabrica- in NLNG by state-owned Nigerian National
tion, construction work and major procurement Petroleum Corp. (NNPC), which has a stake of
will be carried out within Nigeria, he explained. 49%. The remaining equity in the group is split
Buhari, who attended the ceremony via between Royal Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands),
video link, also stressed the potential benefits with 25.6%; TotalEnergies (France), with 15%,
for Nigerian businesses. The project will help and Eni (Italy), with 10.4%.
demonstrate that local companies are capable of The partners operate a gas liquefaction plant
carrying out large-scale initiatives in a safe, prof- on Bonny Island. At present, the facility has six
itable and responsible manner, he said. production trains capable of turning out a total
“As we flag off the Train 7 project today, I look of 22.5 mn tpy. However, capacity is set to rise to
forward to the development and execution of 30mn tpy as a result of the Train 7 project, which
more gas projects by the IOCs and indigenous envisions the construction of a seventh produc-
operators, and more trains from Nigeria LNG,” tion train that will be able to produce 4.2mn tpy,
he commented. as well as the debottlenecking of existing trains to
Buhari also stressed that NLNG’s expansion add another 3.4mn tpy of capacity.™

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