SEAL Gas Pipeline

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The SEAL Gas Pipeline is a proposed natural gas pipeline off the Atlantic coast of northeastern Brazil.

Location

The proposed pipeline would run west from the offshore post-salt fields of Brazil's Sergipe-Alagoas (SEAL) Basin to the Atalaia Natural Gas Processing Unit in Aracaju (Sergipe state).[1]

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Project Details

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  • Capacity: 20 million cubic meters per day)[1]
  • Length: 106 km / 66 miles[1]
  • Status: Proposed
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Background

The proposed SEAL pipeline would be an 106-kilometer, 24-inch pipeline with an estimated development cost of R$ 3.1 billion (3.1 billion Brazilian reais) and the capacity to transport 20 million cubic meters of natural gas per day from the post-salt fields of the Sergipe-Alagaos basin to an onshore gas processing facility on the coast of Sergipe state. The main proposal, known as SEAL-A, would bring gas to the existing Atalaia Natural Gas Processing Unit in Aracaju, Sergipe. An alternative proposal, known as SEAL-B, would bring gas to a new, larger gas processing facility to be constructed near the port of Sergipe.[1]

A November 2021 update of the Brazilian government's offshore gas infrastructure plan continued to list both variants of the SEAL pipeline as active projects, noting that they were both still in the "initial studies" phase.[2]

In June 2022, Petrobras and the government of Sergipe agreed to jointly seek long-term contracts with power plants and other industrial customers who would purchase gas from the SEAL pipeline. However, Petrobras offered no projected commissioning date or other details about the pipeline.[3]

A fossil gas infrastructure expansion study released in December 2022 by the Brazilian government listed the SEAL pipeline as one of six high priority pipelines to be developed during the 2022-2032 period.[4]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "PIPE: Plano Indicativo de Processamento e Escoamento de Gás Natural" (PDF). EPE. November 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "PIPE 2021 - Plano Indicativo de Processamento e Escoamento de Gás Natural (p 54)" (PDF). EPE. Empresa de Pesquisa Energética. November 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Petrobras e governo de Sergipe buscam clientes para viabilizar gasoduto". EPBR. June 13, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Estudos do Plano Decenal de Expansão de Energia 2032: Gas Natural (p 3)" (PDF). EPE - Empresa de Pesquisa Energética. December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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