Andrés LNG Terminal

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Andrés LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Location

The terminal is located in Andrés, Boca Chica, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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Project Details

• Owner: AES Corporation [80%], AFI Popular [10%], Grupo Linda [5%], Grupo Estrella [5%]
• Location: Punta Caucedo, Boca Chica, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• Coordinates: 18.406993, -69.628234 (exact)
• Capacity: 1.9 mtpa
• Status: Operating
• Type: Import
• Start Year: 2003

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Background

Andrés LNG Terminal is an LNG terminal in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic that was commissioned in February 2003. The 400 million dollar comprised of the LNG terminal, AES Andrés power station, and a pipeline extension to an existing power plant.

AES awarded a lump-sum turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction contract to CB&I for the LNG import terminal. It includes a 160,000 m³ LNG storage tank and three unloading arms capable of unloading LNG vessels at a rate of 10,000 m³ per hour. The terminal provides natural gas to customers in the industrial, transportation and power generation sectors, including the adjacent AES Andrés power station and the DPP Los Mina power station operated by Dominican Power Partners in Los Mina, 34 km to the west.

In August 2015, AES Dominica announced that it would offer LNG bunkering at the Andres LNG Terminal, and that it had begun work to modify the terminal for LNG reloads onto vessels sized between 10,000 m³ and 60,000 m³. The Andres LNG terminal completed its first LNG reload in February 2017, reloading between 60,000 and 70,000 m³ of LNG from the terminal onto the 138,826 m³ Cadiz Knutsen for delivery to the United Kingdom's Grain LNG Terminal.

In 2018, AES Andres began building the Eastern Gas Pipeline, a project designed to bring natural gas from the Boca Chica terminal to several power plants in the San Pedro de Macorís region. In 2020, the 50-kilometer pipeline began supplying the Quisqueya I, Quisqueya II, and San Pedro de Macoris power stations, starting in February, June and November, respectively.

The Andrés terminal has increasingly sought to establish itself as a regional hub for LNG distribution. In 2020 the terminal provided re-exports to Panama and Jamaica as well as re-exports to Guyana via iso-containers.

An expansion plan announced in 2020 and scheduled for completion in 2023 aimed to increase storage capacity at the Andres LNG Terminal from 160,000 m³ to 280,000 m³. In December 2020, AES authorized POSCO E&C to proceed with construction of a second LNG storage tank with a capacity of 120,000 m³, adjacent to the existing tank. The terminal expansion project also envisioned installation of additional vaporizers and of two truck loading bays. The new truck loading bays began commercial operations in 2022, while completion of the new storage tank remained on schedule for 2023.

Ownership

In December 2023, AES announced that it had sold a 10% stake in its Dominican businesses to AFI Popular, with Grupo Linda and Grupo Estrella each also acquiring a 5% stake. Following the sale, AES retained an 80% ownership share in the Andrés terminal.