LNG

A round-up of latest events, company and industry news

Engineers Al Chernosky and Andy McGhie describe the challenges that led to the building of a suspension bridge to complete LNG plant

Construction of an LNG plant on the northwest side of Equatorial Guinea’s Bioko Island began in July 2004. The facility is on a record-breaking schedule from project inception to first delivery of LNG.

The project team has been faced with many challenges typical of those experienced when tackling grassroots facilities in remote locations.

In the second of a three-part series on LNG finance and risk from global law firm White & Case, partner Jason Kerr looks at new streams

Africa cuts an imposing figure on the world energy horizon. Already a significant provider of both oil and gas to the rest of the world, Africa’s huge reserves of natural resources are only going to increase in importance and they will be a key factor in the growth of the world economy over the next two decades. 

David Wood and Saeid Mokhatab explain how national quality specification guidelines with respect to LNG imports have yet to be full resolved

Natural gas interchangeability is a common issue for distribution networks to address in major markets where supplies are coming from many different sources of varying qualities.

In continental Europe, for example, there have been about 20 different qualities of pipeline gas and about 15 different imported LNG gas compositions (Figure 1) supplying the market.

John McKay

Africa is emerging as a key source of liquefied natural gas for the United States as Nigeria continues to monetize its significant natural gas reserves, and a small former Spanish colony prepares to become the world’s 14th LNG exporter with contracts to deliver into Louisiana.

In mid-July the West African state of Equatorial Guinea will become the newest LNG exporting country after a project led by Marathon Oil Corp. of the US comes on stream.

Thomas Lang, Wieland-Werke AG, Ulm, Germany, and Brigitte Ploix, Technip, Paris, France

Shell's planned Floating LNG facility will have a nominal capacity of 3.5 million tonnes per annum of LNG and more than 4 MTPA for rich feed-gas, plus a considerable amount of co-produced liquefied petroleum gas and condensate.

José A. Lana, Research and Development Project Manager Enagás, Zaragosa, Spain, Claudio Rodríguez, Cartagena LNG Terminal Manager, Aniceto Valverde and Gregorio Munuera, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Technical University of Cartagena, Spain

The evolution of the Spanish Gas Sector in the last five years has been characterized by large investments in infrastructure, particularly in regard to LNG regasification plants.

M.M.E. van Osch , S.P.C. Belfroid, M. Oldenburg, TNO Science and Industry, Delft, the Netherlands.

LNG will be playing an increasingly important role in the coming years in the global demand for energy supply.

Christian Bladanet, Principal Process Engineer, and Fara Rasolondraibe, Senior Process Engineer, Technip, Paris, and Jean-Claude Garcel and Christophe Thomas of Total, Paris.

The LNG market calls for a wide range of LNG qualities, characterised mainly by heating value.