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The SCU plant, for its part, will have a capacity of phosphorus and 20,000 tonnes of potash to
of 100,000 tpy, and its output will be used at the manufacture NPK fertiliser.
NPK unit, which is slated to have a capacity of The company says the project will generate
66,000 tpy. 1,000 jobs during construction and 300 perma-
Chemtech will also import 22,000 tonnes nent jobs upon its completion. ™

BRAZIL
New Fortress Energy expects to bring two

Brazilian LNG terminals on stream in 2023

REPRESENTATIVES of US-based New For- installed in Babitonga Bay, at a site 300 metres
tress Energy (NFE) reported during a recent offshore from the city of São Francisco do Sul.
conference call on its performance in the sec- Meanwhile, NFE executives also reported
ond quarter of 2022 that it was nearly finished significant progress on the Barcarena LNG ter-
with the establishment of two new LNG import minal project. They said the facility was nearly
terminals in Brazil. complete and would be ready to launch oper-
In the call, NFE executives said that work on ations in 2023. This will allow the company to
the offshore Santa Catarina LNG terminal was uphold its commitment to begin supplying
very nearly complete. Specifically, they stated regasified LNG to Alunorte, an aluminium
that the facility was about 90% ready and was refinery owned by Norsk Hydro (Norway),
due to be finished in the fourth quarter of 2022 under a 15-year contract signed in December
and then launched in the first quarter of 2023. 2021, they noted.
The executives did not comment extensively The executives went on to say that NFE had
on the Santa Catarina LNG project, which is also started construction work on the 605-MW Bar-
known as Terminal Gás Sul (TGS). This termi- carena TPP, which will also use gas imported
nal will be linked to shore via a 33-km subsea via the Barcarena terminal, in the second quar-
pipeline, which will then be connected to the ter of 2022. Wes Edens, the founder and CEO
Gasbol pipeline, the Brazilian section of a larger of the company, noted that the power station
system that pumps imported Bolivian gas into was slated to deliver electricity to local custom-
Brazil’s national pipeline network. These links ers under a 25-year power purchase agreement
will allow TGS to handle shipments of feedstock (PPA) linked to JKM, a Brazilian metallurgi-
bound for gas-fired thermal power plant (TPPs) cal concern, and described the PPAs as “super
in Santa Catarina, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul attractive” for NFE.
states. Edens also suggested that his company might
The terminal will be based on a floating be able to deliver gas from its upstream projects
storage and regasification unit (FSRU) that in the Gulf of Mexico to the Brazilian terminals
is capable of handling the equivalent of 15mn in the future. Deliveries could start around mid-
cubic metres per day of gas. The vessel has been 2025, he said, without elaborating. ™

The Barcarena and Santa Catarina LNG terminals are expected to come on line in 2023 (Image: NFE)

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