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Ivory Coast FSRU, also called the Abidjan FSRU, was a proposed LNG import terminal in the Ivory Coast.[1][2] There have been no updates in over four years, so the project is presumed cancelled as of 2025.
Location
The project has been proposed to be located in Vridi Canal area of the Port of Abidjan.[3]
Project Details
- Operator: TotalEnergies (Original operator; no other operators have been found after TotalEnergies exited the project)[4]
- Owner: TotalEnergies (34%), SOCAR (26%), Shell (13%), PetroCI (11%), Golar (6%), CI-Energies (5%) and Endeavor Energy (5%) (Original owners; no other owners have been found after TotalEnergies exited the project)[1][5][4]
- Location: Vridi, Port of Abidjan[6][3]
- Coordinates: 5.272988, -4.028744 (approximate)[7]
- Capacity: 3 mtpa[4][6][3]
- Status: Cancelled (presumed)
- Type: Import[1]
- Start Year: 2023[5]
- Formerly 2018[8]
- Cost: US$200 million[8]
Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day
Background
Proposed in 2016, the regasification terminal would have included a floating storage and three-million-tonnes-per-year LNG regasification terminal (FSRU) – as well as a pipeline connecting the unit to existing and planned power plants across the region.[5][4] It was expected to be operational in mid-2018.[4] Total led the special purpose vehicle CI-GNL that would have developed and operated the project. Shareholders included: TotalEnergies – 34%, SOCAR – 26%, Shell – 13%, Petro CI – 11%, Golar – 6%, CI-Energies – 5% and Endeavor Energy – 5%.[1][5]
In May 2021, TotalEnergies exited the project.[9]
In June 2021, Côte d'Ivoire's Ministry of Mines, Petroleum and Energy, via state electricity company Cote d'Ivoire Energies (CI Energies), issued a tender for a provider and operator of an FSRU in the Port of Abidjan.[2]
A year-end 2021 Shell report listed the start date of the FSRU as 2023 and its status as "Under Planning".[5]
There have been no significant updates regarding the project's development in over four years, and the project is presumed cancelled as of 2025.
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 CI-GNL LNG Regasification Terminal, IJGlobal, March 1, 2018
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hine (l_hine), Lucy (2021-06-02). "Ivory Coast tenders for quick start-up FSRU and LNG supply | TradeWinds". TradeWinds | Latest shipping and maritime news. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Energy in Côte d'Ivoire – CHINA EMERGING TECHNOLOGY PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED". www.hkenergy.org. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Ivory Coast: Total becomes the operator of the LNG terminal project". TotalEnergies.com. 2016-11-25. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Shell" (PDF). Retrieved June 25, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Africa Energy Futures Cote dIvoire | DLA Piper". www.dlapiper.com. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
- ↑ "Vridi Canal · Côte d'Ivoire". Vridi Canal · Côte d'Ivoire. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Total plans 1 bcm/year FSRU in Ivory Coast by mid-2018". Enerdata. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
- ↑ "IVORY COAST : Total said to be backing out of Abidjan LNG import terminal - 05/05/2021". Africa Intelligence. 2021-05-05. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
