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USA
At the end of February, Cheniere Energy
Partners L.P. confirmed that the first
LNG commissioning cargo was loading
at its Sabine Pass liquefaction project in
Cameron Parish, Louisiana, and was set to
depart imminently. The LNG was loading
on the
Asia Vision
LNG carrier, chartered
by Cheniere Marketing LLC. The cargo is
set for Brazil. Cheniere Partners plans to
construct up to six liquefaction trains, which
are in various stages of construction and
development.
FRANCE
For the past 13 years, GE has provided ENGIE
with the technological solutions that are at
the heart of its transportation and storage
network. This partnership continues with the
latest order of an Integrated Compressor Line
(ICL) unit to expand a GRTgaz compression
station in Etrez, France. Over the past few
years, GE has provided 40 high performance
electric Variable Speed Drive Systems to
ENGIE subsidiaries Storengy and GRTgaz.
USA
Veeder-Root has announced a multi-year
contract with ABF Freight®, a subsidiary
of ArcBest Corporation. Under the
agreement, Insite360 FuelQuest will provide
comprehensive bulk fuel management
services for ABF Freight's terminal network
in North America, enabled by Veeder-Root
Automatic Tank Gauges.
THE NETHERLANDS
At the bunkering port in Rotterdam, the sales
of low sulfur gas oil and diesel almost tripled
in 2015 compared to the previous year (0.7 to
1.8 million m
3
), due to more stringent sulfur
requirements for maritime shipping in the
North and Baltic Sea. With 10.6 million m
3
,
the deliveries of all bunkers remained at the
same level as in 2014. The tripling of the
increase in the sales of gas oil and diesel is
at the expense of the sales of fuel oil, which
fell from 9.8 to 8.7 million m
3
.
USA |
Facility acquisition
P
hillips 66 Partners LP has
announced an agreement with
Phillips 66 to acquire a 25%
controlling interest in Phillips 66
Sweeny Frac LLC, which owns the
sweeny fractionator one and
Clemens caverns storage facility, for
a total consideration of
US$236 million. The acquisition is
anticipated to close in March 2016.
The Clemens caverns storage
facility is located approximately
15 miles southeast of Phillips 66’s
sweeny refinery complex in
Old Ocean, Texas. The facility
includes five newly developed
caverns that will have storage
capacity of approximately
7.5 million bbls of Y-grade NGL,
propane and butane, with the
capability for future capacity
expansion.
Phillips 66 will enter into
fractionation and storage
agreements, each with a 10 year
term, that include a minimum
fractionation volume commitment
for sweeny fractionator one and
minimum storage commitments at
the Clemens caverns storage facility.
Bolivia |
Virtual gas pipeline system
S
ENER recently inaugarated a new
virtual gas pipeline project in
Bolivia, owned by Yacimientos
Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos
(YPFB). SENER, as the leader of the
EPC consortium, carried out the
design, construction and startup of
the virtual gas pipeline before
handing it over to the client. The
system comprises an LNG plant, a
fleet of cryogenic transport tanks
and mobile regasification plants, and
various satellite regasification
stations. The plant produces 210 tpd
of LNG and has a storage capacity of
up to 3000 m
3
.
Through a dual nitrogen
expansion cycle, the liquefaction
plant generates LNG at -160˚C and
has storage capacity for six days. In
this liquid phase, the gas is loaded
onto cryogenic transport tanks using
tank lorry filling (TLF) and is
delivered to 27 satellite
regasification stations throughout
the country. At these destinations,
the LNG is stored in cryogenic tanks
so it can then be distributed to the
municipalities and vehicle service
stations.
For this purpose, the liquid, once
regasified, passes through a control
unit, metering and odourisation
station and then is sent through
networks of gas distribution for final
consumption.
Ghana |
LNG storage project
G
hana National Petroleum
Corporation (GNPC) and
Quantum Power have signed Heads
of Terms for the construction and
operation of the LNG storage,
regasification and delivery facilities
at Tema, Ghana.
The Tema LNG Project will have
the scalable ultimate capacity to
receive, store, regasify and deliver, at
steady state, of about 3.4 million tpy
of LNG, equivalent to
500 million ft
3
/d of gas, utilising a
state of the art dedicated floating
storage and regasification unit (FSRU)
moored offshore Tema. An
associated subsea and onshore
pipeline will deliver the natural gas
to GNPC and its customers onshore.
The Tema LNG Project comprises a
capital outlay of over
US$550 million.
