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MOL, Karpowership agree final details for floating 48-MW LNG-to-power project
MOZAMBIQUE
MITSUI OSK Lines (MOL) and Turkey’s Karad- eniz Holding have revealed their nal plans to develop a 48-MW oating LNG-to-power pro- ject in Mozambique.
ey two partners said at the Tokyo Inter- national Conference on African Development (TICAD VII) last week that they would carry out the world’s rst LNG-to-powership project under the brand KARMOL.
e project would involve jointly owning and operating an FSRU and Powership.
Karadeniz’s Powership concept involves pro- viding a temporary shipborne power plant that uses gas or heavy fuel oil as feedstock. It currently operates in Gambia, Ghana, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, although these projects use natural gas as fuel.
is two partners said at the conference that the project consisted of the collaborative opera- tions of the FSRU to deliver regasi ed LNG and the Powership to receive regasi ed LNG in order to produce electricity.
The power is subsequently delivered to Electricidade de Mocambique (EDM), the Mozambican national power utility, through an electricity connection and transmission facility.
Mitsui said in March that the new joint ven- ture would convert one of MOL’s existing LNG tankers, the Dwipura, into a oating LNG stor- age and regasi cation unit to supply the Irem
Sultan Powership.
The Irem Sultan currently operates with
heavy fuel oil in Nacala, Mozambique, but in accordance with the prior arrangement with EDM, it will be switched to operation with LNG a er the FSRU delivery.
e Irem Sultan has been producing power at Nacala since 2016, supplying land-locked Zam- bia but not Mozambique.
Karadeniz signed a contract in 2018 with the Mozambique government for the supply of a oating power plant to deliver 48 MW of base- load to EDM to supply northern Nacala Province for ve years.
Supply will commence once Karadeniz’ existing two-year supply contact with Zambia, to which it is supplying 100 MW of baseload via Mozambique, ends later this year.
e Turkish company won its rst African contract in Ghana in 2014, starting with a barge equipped with a 200-MW power plant and anchored in the coastal city of Tema. To date, Karpowership has nearly 850 MW in operation in Africa.
e Istanbul-based company currently sup- plies 26% of the electricity produced in Ghana, 10% in Mozambique, 80% in the Gambia and Sierra Leone, and 10% in Sudan.
The company is also looking to supply its Powership solution to Morocco.™
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