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Golar makes moves in Brazil
PROJECTS & COMPANIES
The Golar Nanook FSRU
GOLAR Power is expanding its footprint in Bra- zil’s LNG industry. The company announced this week that it had signed a “protocol of intentions” with the government of Pernambuco State to develop an LNG import terminal in the Port of Suape, in north-east Brazil.
The project includes infrastructure for the supply of natural gas and LNG to generate elec- tricity, in addition to meeting the demands of industries, commerce, LNG stations and house- holds, Golar said in a March 16 statement. The company is planning to partner with local gas distribution company Companhia Pernambu- cana de Gás Natural (Copergás) to bring gas to parts of Pernambuco that are not yet served by pipeline networks. The gas will be delivered by road, using LNG ISO-containers that will be supplied with LNG from an existing carrier that would be permanently docked at the Port of Suape.
The trucks will distribute LNG to cities within a radius of up to 1,000 km. Initial trucked volumes are estimated at 800 cubic metres per day of LNG – equivalent to around 480,000
cubic metres per day of gas.
The project would use existing port infra-
structure owned by the state government, and operations are scheduled to start in the second half of 2020. Golar noted that final development of the project remained contingent on regulatory approvals and the conclusion of commercial agreements. The company intends to fund the capital expenditure requirements for the project from its internal resources and operating cash flow.
Separately, Golar announced a day later that it had successfully completed the final operational test at the 1.5-GW Sergipe power plant, which is fuelled by LNG from the Golar Nanook floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) off the coast of Sergipe State.
The test involved supplying the maximum load of 1.5 GW for the plant to the National Interconnected System (SIN) for a period of 96 continuous hours. The test is the National System Operator’s (ONS) final requirement before commercial operations can begin at the plant.
Peru LNG brings export volumes up in February
PERFORMANCE
PERU LNG, the operator of a natural gas liq- uefaction plant and export terminal in Pampa Melchorita, saw its export volumes rise year on year in February.
According to data published last week by the national oil company (NOC) Perupetro, the Peru LNG consortium loaded five ves- sels with 795,576 cubic metres of LNG in December. This was up by nearly 14% on the figure reported in the same month of 2019, when the group exported 698,029 cubic metres of LNG.
Exports also went up month on month in January. According to previously released data, Peru LNG loaded four vessels with 674,751 cubic metres of LNG in January of this year. As a result, export volumes rose by nearly 18% on the previ- ous month.
Peru LNG has loaded and delivered a total of 562 cargoes of LNG since its launch in June 2010. Of the five cargoes dispatched in January 2020, three went to South Korea, one to Spain and one to China.
The Peru LNG consortium was established by US-based Hunt Oil together with three other companies. The partners spent $3.8bn on the Pampa Melchorita facility, which includes a 4.45mn tonne per year (tpy) gas liquefaction plant built by Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. (CBI), and a marine terminal constructed by a consor- tium known as CDB. (This group includes Italy’s Saipem, Luxemburg’s Jan de Nul and Brazil’s Odebrecht.)
The Pampa Melchorita complex also includes a storage depot that has two 130,000 cubic metre tanks and a 34-inch (860-mm) natural gas pipe- line. This pipeline handles gas from fields in the Cusco region that are being developed by Spain’s Repsol and Argentina’s NOC YPF. It follows a 408-km route from Chiquintirca, a town in the Ayacucho region, to the LNG plant.
Equity in the Peru LNG project is split between Hunt Oil, with 50%; SK Energy (South Korea), with 20%; Royal Dutch Shell (UK-Netherlands), with 20%, and Marubeni (Japan), with 10%.
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