LNG

The Asian-based developer of the Canadian Woodfibre LNG export project in British Columbia has received provincial authorization to continue clearing the brownfield site near the town of Squamish that was previously a pulp mill.

Canadian Woodfibre LNG President David Keane said the small-scale liquefaction and export venture proposed for the district of Squamish in British Columbia was expected to move to the construction phase in the first quarter of 2019.

Woodfibre LNG, the export project backed by Indonesian businessman Sukanto Tanoto and his Singapore-based RGE Group and the only Canadian liquefaction plant venture with full permit approvals in the Pacific province of British Columbia, said it was looking at current regulatory requirements and was set to work out terms for a final engineering contract to be awarded by mid-2018.

The Canadian Woodfibre LNG export project backed by Indonesian billionaire Sukanto Tanoto and his RGE Group and the only liquefaction plant venture with full permit approvals in the Pacific province of British Columbia, said it had postponed the start of construction until 2018 when final schedules would be finalized.

July 13 (LNG) - Woodfibre LNG, the Canadian project to produce 2 million tonnes per annum at a brownfield site in British Columbia, said an application to amend its Environmental Assessment Certificate for the construction and operation of the plant had been approved. The permit was originally granted on October 2015. Woodfibre then applied to amend it in early 2017 to address design changes, including some proposed by the Squamish First Nation native tribe.

The small-scale Canadian LNG export project backed by Indonesian billionaire Sukanto Tanoto and his Pacific Oil and Gas company has had its 40-year export licence to ship cargoes to Asia approved by the federal government in Ottawa.

Fluor Corp., the US energy engineering and construction company, said it won a contract for the Canadian Woodfibre LNG export project being developed at Squamish, north of Vancouver.

The Canadian province of British Columbia said the decision by the Asian-run Woodfibre LNG project to proceed and its full authorization means it will also be locked into using state-backed electricity and associated technology being pushed onto all liquefaction and export ventures.

A Canadian LNG export project of Indonesian billionaire Sukanto Tanoto and his Pacific Oil and Gas company has given the go-ahead to US energy engineering company KBR to proceed with more front-end engineering and design work as the local First Nation native American tribe voted to approve a key technology for the liquefaction plant.

Sept 12 (LNGJ) - Woodfibre LNG has reported a spill at the 100-year-old industrial site, a former wood mill, where the Asian-led company plans to build a liquefaction and export plant located 7 kilometres southwest of the town of Squamish in British Columbia. The spill happened during routine maintenance on the site’s industrial landfill, which contains historical wood waste from former pulp mill operations. “A pipe connected to the landfill was being flushed with water, when it broke, spilling about 3,000 litres of wash water,” Woodfibre said. “The spill was primarily contained in a containment sump and quickly cleaned-up using a commercial vacuum truck that was onsite as part of the scheduled maintenance work,” it added. The spill was reported to the BC Ministry of Environment and Emergency Management BC for further investigation.