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NFE launches

Pichilingue

LNG terminal

PROJECTS & US-BASED New Fortress Energy (NFE) has
COMPANIES brought a new LNG import terminal on stream
in Pichilingue, a port at the southern tip of Mex-
ico’s Baja California Sur State.
NFE announced the launch on July 14,
reporting that its new receiving and regasifi-
cation facility had officially begun commer-
cial operations and saying it intended to mark
the occasion at a ceremony on July 16. It also
indicated that it expected the terminal to begin
delivering LNG to customers in the near future,
in line with its existing supply agreements.
The first parties to receive the fuel will be CTG
La Paz and CTG Baja California, two thermal
power plants (TPPs) owned by CFEnergia SA
de CV. NFE signed a supply deal with the utility,
which is a subsidiary of Mexico’s Federal Elec-
tricity Commission (CFE), in March of this year.
The company also expects to begin delivering
gas to its own TPP before the end of September,
the statement said. It noted that NFE has nearly
finished building the 135-MW facility, which is cost and permitting requirements of LNG deliv-
close to the terminal in Pichilingue, and will use eries, he said.
it to supply electricity to the local grid. “We are proud to have deployed the first-
Additionally, it said, NFE aims to carry out its of-a-kind ISOFlex system at our terminal in
first deliveries of LNG to industrial customers Baja California Sur,” Abdalla said. “This is a
within the next two months. big achievement for NFE and will enable us
Wes Edens, the chairman and CEO of the to deliver critical energy infrastructure and
company, noted that the new facility would logistics solutions much more quickly and less
allow Baja California Sur to access natural gas expensively.”
for the first time. This will benefit the state’s According to previous reports, NFE will use
It reported that economy and environment by facilitating the the ISOFlex system to load LNG onto trucks for
switch to a fuel that is cleaner-burning, more delivery to local hotels, factories and industrial
it anticipated efficient and more cost-effective than petro- consumers.
wrapping up LNG leum products, he was quoted as saying in a Supply deals
press release.
The company launched the Pichilingue terminal
“The delivery of more affordable and clean-
supply deals for er-burning natural gas is a significant milestone shortly after revealing that it had arranged to buy
its four terminals for Baja California Sur,” he commented. “Our enough LNG to supply the needs of its terminals
facility will enable customers to significantly in Latin America and the Caribbean for the next
in Brazil by the reduce emissions and costs by switching from six years.
In a separate statement, it said it had struck
end of the year. oil-based fuels to natural gas.” a new agreement on LNG deliveries to all five
For his part, Sam Abdalla, NFE’s vice-presi-
dent of project development, pointed out that of its terminals in Mexico, Central America and
the terminal would be able to deliver gas to local the Caribbean region. Additionally, it reported
consumers quickly and efficiently. The facility that it anticipated wrapping up LNG supply
has been outfitted with the company’s propri- deals for its four terminals in Brazil by the end
etary ISOFlex system, which gives tankers the of the year. It did not reveal the terms of the deal,
option of using a specialised manifold to trans- but it said that it had secured all of the volumes
fer their LNG cargoes to ISO storage containers it expected to need until 2027.
mounted on offshore support vessels (OSVs), he All of NFE’s Brazilian facilities are expected
noted. In turn, the OSVs are capable of off-load- to be operational in 2022, and the company’s
ing the containers onto trucks or at container new terminal in Nicaragua is slated to come on
port facilities, thereby reducing the time, capital stream in August, it added.™

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