LNG

Fluor Corp. of US and Japan’s JGC Corp. of Japan have completed the final weld on first liquefaction Train at the LNG Canada joint venture at Kitimat on the Pacific Coast province of British Columbia.

Royal Vopak of the Netherlands has reached a positive final investment decision with Canada’s AltaGas to proceed with a large-scale energy and bulk liquids terminal at Ridley Island in the Canadian Pacific province of British Columbia.

JX LNG Canada, a privately held company registered in British Columbia, has proposed a fourth LNG export project for northern BC, adding to the already advancing LNG Canada, Cedar FLNG and another First Nation-led venture north of Prince Rupert.

The latest project proposed by JX LNG Canada is called the Summit Lake PG LNG Project and the developers have just filed to start the regulatory process.

The Summit Lake LNG venture is planned for the Caribou Region of BC and the liquefaction facility will be sited about 30 kilometres (19 miles) north of Prince George.

The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) and BC Environmental Assessment Office said they had started working cooperatively for the initial phase of the Summit LNG project's review.

Traditional territory

“The project will be located at the Hart North Industrial site. The site is located approximately 20km from the Lheidli-T’enneh First Nation Community, and within the traditional territory of the Lheidli-T’enneh First Nation,” said the developers JX LNG Canada.

“The project is preliminarily projected to utilize 250 hectares of land,” added JX LNG.

The company explained that a two-phase development is proposed with Phase 1 comprising the production of up to 1.35 million tonnes per annum of LNG.

The second phase would give an additional 1.35 MTPA of output for a total of 2.70 MTPA of LNG.

Commercial operations for Phase 1 are expected to commence in 2028, according to JX LNG’s initial filing for the Summit project.

At full build-out the project plans to process 355 million standard cubic feet per day of natural gas and was expected to operate for 30 years.

The Canadian and BC regulators have now invited  public comments and are setting up information sessions for those in the project area and Canada at large.

“You are invited to review the initial project description and provide feedback. A summary document, in English or French, is available on the project,” said the IAAC.

Review process

“Funding provided by the Agency is now available to help Indigenous Peoples and the public participate in the impact assessment process for the proposed Summit Lake PG LNG Project north of Prince George,” the regulator added.

The other three LNG export projects in northern BC are the soon-to-start industrial-scale LNG Canada venture, the Cedar LNG project involving Pembina Pipeline Corp. and the Haisla First Nation and the Ksi Lisims LNG Partnership project.

The Ksi Lisims LNG Partnership joint venture comprises the Nisga’a Nation, Rockies LNG and Western LNG LLC.

They are proposing a floating liquefaction and export plant near the port of Prince Rupert and have signed a 20-year sale and purchase agreement with the Shell subsidiary, Shell Eastern Trading.

Under the SPA, Shell will purchase 2 MTPA of LNG per annum from the Ksi Lisims project on a free-on-board basis in what was the first LNG offtake agreement executed by the Ksi Lisims venture.

That project plans to produce 12 MTPA at Wil Milit, located north of Prince Rupert and near the Nisga’a tribal village of Gingolx.

Pembina Pipeline Corp., the Canadian natural gas and energy transportation and terminals company, and its Cedar floating LNG partner, the Haisla Nation of British Columbia, have reached landmark deals on LNG offtake, construction and financing.

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), the South Korean shipbuilder, has put a value of US$1.5 billion on the floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility recently ordered for the Canadian Cedar LNG joint venture in the Douglas Channel near Kitimat in British Columbia and modelled on an African FLNG vessel.

Nov 3 (LNGJ) - Pembina Pipeline Corp. of Canada, a shareholder in the Cedar liquefied natural gas production project near Kitimat in British Columbia, reported C$346 million (US$251M) of third-quarter net income versus C$1.83 billion in the same three months of 2022 because of a previous one-off gain from gas processing assets. Quarterly revenues declined to C$2.29Bln from $2.78Bln in the same quarter last year.

   Pembina has formed a partnership with the Haisla First Nation to develop the Cedar LNG project with 3 million tonnes per annum of capacity. The company said that Cedar LNG would provide a “valuable outlet” for Western Canada’s natural gas to global markets. “Cedar LNG continues to progress key project deliverables, having secured the major regulatory approvals and signed non-binding memoranda of understanding for long-term liquefaction services with investment grade counterparties for the project’s total base liquefaction capacity,” Pembina stated in its earnings.

TC Energy Corp., whose main current project is the building of the Coastal GasLink pipeline for the LNG Canada venture, has agreed to sell 40 percent stakes for C$5.2 billion (US$3.9Bln) in the two US assets, Columbia Gas Transmission and Columbia Gulf Transmission, the transporters of substantial US LNG feed-gas volumes.

Pembina Pipeline Corp. and the Haisla First Nation from Kitimat in British Columbia have received environmental approvals to proceed with the near-shore Cedar LNG project on the Douglas Channel and have also signed a feed-gas tolling accord.

Pembina Pipeline Corp., the Canadian energy transportation company and joint venture partner in the Cedar Floating LNG project in British Columbia, said it had appointed former Chief Financial Officer Scott Burrows as the company's permanent President and Chief Executive and had concluded an executive search process.

Pembina Pipeline Corp., the developer of the Cedar floating LNG project in British Columbia along with the Haisla First Nation, has announced that President and Chief Executive Mick Dilger had stepped down.