Presidente Kennedy-São Brás do Suaçuí Gas Pipeline

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The Presidente Kennedy-São Brás do Suaçuí Gas Pipeline is a proposed natural gas pipeline that would run through the Brazilian states of Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais.

Location

The pipeline would run from Presidente Kennedy (Espírito Santo state) to São Brás do Suaçuí (Minas Gerais state).

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Project Details

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• Capacity: 12 million cubic meters per day)
• Length: 332 km / 206 miles
• Status: Proposed
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Background

The Presidente Kennedy-São Brás do Suaçuí Gas Pipeline is one of several new pipelines proposed in a November 2020 government plan to expand Brazil's natural gas transmission network. The 332-kilometer, 20-inch pipeline would have an estimated development cost of R$ 3.9 billion (3.9 billion Brazilian reais) and the capacity to deliver 12 million cubic meters of natural gas per day to customers in the states of Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais. As of November 2020, environmental licensing for the project was underway.

In August 2021, Julio Lopes, a representative in the lower house of Brazil's National Congress, proposed a new law (PL 2815/2021) designed to streamline environmental permitting for gas pipelines whose route has previously been permitted for other purposes. The new law, if passed, could potentially expedite development of the Presidente Kennedy-São Brás do Suaçuí Gas Pipeline, since the gas pipeline's path would replicate the route of a previously licensed ore pipeline.

A December 2022 update of the Brazilian government's national gas transport plan continued to list the Presidente Kennedy-São Brás do Suaçuí pipeline as an active project in the licensing phase.