Fénix Gas Pipeline

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Fénix Gas Pipeline is a proposed gas pipeline that would run from the Fénix offshore gas field to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

Location

The pipeline would start at the Fénix offshore platform in the Fénix gas field and run to the TotalEnergies-operated Véga Pleyade platform.

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Project Details

• Operator: Total Austral
• Parent company: Total (37.5%), Wintershall Energía (37.5%), Pan American Energy (25%)
• Capacity: 3.65 bcm/y (10 million m³ per day)
• Length: 35 kilometers
• Diameter: 60 centimeters (24 inches)
• Status: Construction
• Start Year: 2024
• Cost: 700 million USD
• Associated infrastructure:
  • Fénix gas field
  • Vega Pléyade gas pipeline

Background

The Fénix gas pipeline would be developed by Total, Wintershall Energía and Pan American Energy, the same consortium that has been operating the Vega Pléyade gas pipeline off Patagonia's Atlantic coast since 2016. Both the Fénix and Vega Pléyade projects aim to develop the natural gas and condensate fields of the Cuenca Marina Austral 1 (CMA-1) concession, 20 kilometers east of Bahía San Sebastián in the Argentine Sea off the coast of Tierra del Fuego.

The project would comprise a new wellhead platform linked to Total's existing Vega Pléyade platform by a 35-kilometer, 10-million-cubic-meter-per-day pipeline. At Vega Pleyade it would feed into the existing Vega Pléyade Gas Pipeline for transport to the Rio Cullen and Cañadón Alfa onshore gas processing facilities in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, where it would ultimately be injected into the San Martín Gas Pipeline and transported 3000 km north to customers in Buenos Aires and other high-demand Argentine markets.

In September 2022, TotalEnergies announced that the consortium had made a final investment decision on the Fénix project, and expected to begin production and transport of gas by early 2025. More recent estimates have cited a start-up date of November 2024.

In June 2023, Total Austral confirmed that it had begun laying pipe for the Fénix pipeline. With an estimated cost of 700 million USD, the Fénix project has been hailed as Argentina's largest investment dedicated to the production of conventional gas. The consortium has been granted rights to develop gas from Fénix and the surrounding CMA-1 concession through April 2041.