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Porto do Açu FSRU is a floating storage and regasification unit in Port of Açu, Brazil.
Location
The terminal is located in the Açu port complex in São João da Barra, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.[1]
Project Details
- Sponsor: Gás Natural Açu (GNA)[2]
- Terminal Operator: Klaipedos Nafta (KN Energies)[3]
- Terminal Owner: Prumo Logistica (46.9%), Siemens (33%), BP (20.1%)[4][5]
- Terminal Parent Company: EIG Global Energy Partners (46.9%)[6], Siemens (33%), BP (20.1%)[4][5]
- Vessel name: BW Magna[3][7]
- Vessel owner: BW LNG[3][7]
- Vessel parent company: BW Group[3][7]
- Location: Porto do Açu, São João da Barra, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil[1]
- Coordinates: -21.847897, -40.991889 (approximate)
- Capacity: 5.6 mtpa[3][4] (21 million m3 per day)[1][2]
- Status: Operating[8]
- Type: Import
- Start Year: 2021[3][8][9]
- Financing: A banking consortium consisting of Bank of America, Crédit Agricole, OCBC Bank, Société Générale and Sumitomo Mitsui provided a US$232 million loan for the construction and acquisition of a FSRU vessel (BW Magna) by BW Group.[10]
Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day
Background
The Porto do Açu LNG terminal is part of the massive Porto do Açu port project on Brazil's Atlantic coast. Developed by GNA (Gás Natural Açu), a consortium formed by Prumo, BP, and Siemens[11], the terminal consists of a permanently moored FSRU (floating storage and regasification unit) with a regasification capacity of 21 million cubic meters per day and a storage capacity of 174,000 cubic meters. Initial plans called for the terminal to supply the 1338 MW GNA I power station and the 1672 MW GNA II power station in São João da Barra, which were scheduled to begin operating in 2021 and 2023, respectively.[1][12][13][14]
The floating regasification unit (FSRU) BW Magna, purpose built for the Gas Natural Açu (GNA) LNG-to-power project, was commissioned by GNA from BW LNG. It was built in South Korea and scheduled for delivery by the South Korean shipyard DSME. The FSRU is designed for LNG transfer operations in ship-to-ship mode, with LNG to be imported periodically according to the needs of the Brazilian electrical system.[10][11]
GNA has studied several future expansion options for the Porto do Açu facility, including doubling its regasification capacity with the addition of a second FSRU, adding storage capacity in the form of six LNG storage tanks with a capacity of 180,000 cubic meters each, enhancing distribution potential to Brazil's internal market by linking to the Gasene Gas Pipeline at Campo de Goytacazes, or supplying gas to additional power plants in Rio de Janeiro state such as the Norte Fluminense power station and the Marlim Azul power station.[12]
The Porto do Açu terminal obtained its final installation license from INEA (Rio de Janeiro's environmental agency) in December 2018.[12] The FSRU arrived at the Port of Açu in February 2020[15] and received its first imported LNG cargo from BP in January 2021.[8][9][14]
Lithuania-based Klaipedos Nafta (KN Energies) was appointed as the operator of the Port of Açu LNG terminal onshore facilities. The LNG was to be supplied by BP, a shareholder of the GNA project along with Prumo Logistica and Siemens.[15]
In 2023, KN Energies began working with BP to develop a new project allowing transport of LNG from a truck loading station at the Port of Açu to consumers not served by southeastern Brazil's gas pipeline network.[3]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Terminais de GNL no Brasil (p 29)" (PDF). EPE (Empresa de Pesquisa Energética). October 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "About us". GNA (Gás Natural Açu). Retrieved 2023-07-17.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "GIIGNL Annual Report 2024 (pp 44, 46)" (PDF). GIIGNL. 2024-06-03.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "2024 World LNG Report (p 153)". IGU. 2024-06-28.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Our Shareholders". GNA (Gás Natural Açu). Retrieved 2023-07-17.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "EIG Announces Major Developments at Prumo Logística". EIG. August 21, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "BW Magna in Brazil". BW Group. 2021-02-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Brazil’s GNA receives first LNG cargo in Rio de Janeiro’s port, Hellenic Shipping News, January 5, 2021
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "GNA recebe primeira carga de GNL no Porto do Açu - Petróleo Hoje". Petróleo Hoje. January 4, 2021.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 BW Magna FSRU Vessel IJGlobal, Jan. 20, 2020
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 FSRU OF THE AÇU PORT READY IN 2019 Brazil Energy Insight, August 29, 2018
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "Terminais de Regaseificação de GNL no Brasil: Panorama dos Principais Projetos (pp 24-26)" (PDF). EPE (Empresa de Pesquisa Energética). August 30, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Brazil prepares for a new phase of investments in LNG terminals". LNG Latin America & the Caribbean. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 GNA's 1.3 GW LNG-to-power complex received its first cargo (Brazil), Enerdata, Jan. 8, 2021
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "GIIGNL Annual Report (pp 44, 50)" (PDF). GIIGNL. November 2021.
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