LNG

Stena Power and LNG Solutions was awarded the contract by Singapore-based Delta Offshore Energy to provide front-end engineering and design for using Stena’s jetty-less LNG transfer and regasification system for an import and power project planned for Bac Lieu province in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.

Delta Offshore proposes to employ Stena’s Jetty-less Floating Terminal (JFT) and Self-Installing Regas Platform (SRP) to assist in providing 3,200 megawatts of gas-fired power from LNG imports into the Bac Lieu province of southern Vietnam.

A technology license agreement had previously reached between Stena Power & LNG in August 2020 for Delta Offshore to use the proprietary jetty-less technology.

“The FEED agreement is pivotal in our service provision to Delta Offshore for this important, large-scale energy infrastructure project in Vietnam,” said Svein Hellesmark, Chief Technology Officer of the Norway-based subsidiary of the Gothenburg, Sweden-headquartered Stena Group.

“Our Jetty-less LNG-to-Power technology has been created to meet demand for more flexible LNG import and export terminals, such as is required for the hugely exciting Bac Lieu LNG-to-Power Project,” added Hellesmark.

“At Stena we offer innovative, integrated solutions across the LNG value chain. Our wide-ranging activity in the sector also includes new-building project support, ship management and marine engineering, all underpinned by our ethos that gas should always travel first class,” he stated.

The Stena units, the Jetty-less Floating Terminal (JFT) and Self-installing Regas Platform (SRP), will be located about 40 kilometres (25 miles) off the Vietnam coast.

Stena said that the FEED contract would include detailed model testing to ensure optimum performance with the environmental conditions in the Mekong Delta.

Bobby Quintos, Managing Director of Delta Offshore, said he now regarded the Stena equipment as “key components” his company’s LNG-to-power project in Bac Lieu.

“They allow us to position the LNG receiving terminal offshore, and thereby to minimize the project’s impact on land and on the coastline of Bac Lieu,” explained Quintos.

“This is a benefit of great value to the province because the coast sustains shrimp farms, mangroves and salt beds, all of which are important to the regional economy and environment,” he added.

“Our ethos at Delta is to provide power for progress, and the JFT and SRP will help us do so in an efficient and economical manner,” declared Quintos.

Vietnam is making progress on several liquefied natural gas import projects to support associated power plants and one such venture in Bac Lieu Province in the southern Mekong Delta has signed a technology license agreement with Stena Power and LNG Solutions for jetty-less LNG receiving and regasification technology.