LNG

AES Corp., the US power company and Caribbean LNG import terminal owner, has named Belgian engineering firm Tractebel as owner’s engineer for the expansion of the existing LNG terminal near Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

Oct 11 9LNGJ) - Polish import terminal operator Polskie LNG said it signed a contract with Germany-based equipment company Selas-Linde to deliver vaporisers for the expansion of the Swinoujscie facility on the Baltic Coast. The Swinoujscie terminal expansion will increase capacity to 7.5 million tonnes per annum of LNG from the current 5 MTPA. Plans for a floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) being deployed at the Baltic port of Gdansk are also being advanced.

   “LNG is an important element of the strategy of diversification of sources of natural gas imports to Poland,” said Piotr Naimski of the Polish Government’s Strategic Energy Infrastructure department. The LNG expansions will be complemented by another project called Baltic Pipe to supply Norwegian pipeline natural gas to Poland.

Jan 24 (LNGJ) - Polskie LNG, the operator of the Polish import terminal at the Baltic port of Swinoujscie, said it had received environmental permits for its planned expansion of regasification capacity, storage and loading, allowing it to complete contract tenders. The Polish terminal began operations in 2009 and can currently receive almost 4 million tonnes per annum of LNG. Two tender procedures are currently in progress for the terminal. “The objective of the first is the selection of the contractor for three key components, construction of the third storage tank, process installations to increase regasification capacity and the LNG-to-rail transhipment installation along with a dedicated railway siding,” said the company. The deadline for the first tender has been extended to February 19. A second tender with a February 26 deadline is for the building of an additional jetty in cooperation with the Szczecin and Swinoujscie Seaports Authority.