LNG

Feb 25 (LNGJ) - Centrica, the UK energy and utility company, and a power company in the small northeast Brazilian state of Sergipe, have helped commission the Golar Power-led LNG import terminal project in the South American nation. The Centrica-chartered LNG vessel, the “Singapore Energy”, delivered 95,000 cubic metres of LNG by a ship-to-ship operation to the “Golar Nanook” Floating Storage and Regasification Unit located 8.5 kilometres off the coast. The FRSU is connected by pipeline to a combined-cycle gas-fired power plant, the largest in Latin America, owned by Centrais Elétricas de Sergipe S.A. (CELSE).

   “We are happy to start this collaboration with Golar and CELSE and pleased to have safely completed the ship-to-ship transfer,” said Jonathan Westby, Co-Managing Director of Centrica Energy Marketing and Trading and Global Head of LNG. “This demonstrates Centrica’s growing global LNG trading optimisation and operations capability,” Westby added.

Qatar’s liquefied natural gas marketing company will supply 1.3 million tonnes per annum of cargoes to the largest gas power plant in Latin America being built in Sergipe, the smallest state in Brazil, located in the northeast of the country.