New Fortress Barcarena FSRU

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New Fortress Barcarena FSRU, also known as FSRU de Celba, is an operating LNG import terminal in Brazil.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
New Fortress Barcarena FSRU	Porto de Vila do Conde, Barcarena, Pará, Brazil	-1.539174, -48.754139 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the terminal:

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Project Details

Table 2: Infrastructure details

mtpa = million tonnes per year

Name	Facility type	Status	Capacity	Total terminal capacity	Offshore	Associated infrastructure
New Fortress Barcarena FSRU	import	operating	6 mtpa	6.0 mtpa	True	Novo Tempo Barcarena power station

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
New Fortress Barcarena FSRU	import	–	–

Financing

No financing data available.

Table 4: Project timeline

FID = Final Investment Decision, used by some developers to indicate a project will move forward

Name	Facility type	Status	Proposal year	FID year	Construction year	Operating year	Inactive year
New Fortress Barcarena FSRU	import	operating	–	2021 (FID)	2022	2024	–

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
New Fortress Barcarena FSRU	import	operating	New Fortress Energy Inc [100%]	New Fortress Energy Inc [100.0%]	New Fortress Energy / Celba

Table 6: Vessel ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Vessel	Vessel owners	Vessel operator
New Fortress Barcarena FSRU	import	operating	Energos Celsius	Energos	Energos

Background

The New Fortress Barcarena LNG Terminal is part of a gas-to-power project developed by Celba (Centrais Elétricas Barcarena). Celba has been owned 100% by New Fortress Energy since 2021, following a series of mergers and acquisitions.

The project as originally proposed was to consist of a 15 MMcmd FSRU (floating storage and regasification unit) in the Pará River, moored in a ship-to-ship configuration to a fixed terminal near the port of Vila do Conde. Natural gas from the terminal was to be transported via pipeline to clients in Barcarena's industrial zone, including the previously coal-fired Barcarena Alunorte power station at the Hydro Alunorte aluminum company and Celba's proposed 605 MW Novo Tempo Barcarena power station; the latter project was approved in Brazil's October 2019 energy auction and given priority status by Pará's state government in November 2019.

In August 2020, the Brazilian government issued an installation license authorizing Celba to build the terminal and power plant in a part of Vila do Conde port known as "Area 3." In October 2020, Hygo Energy Transition signed a letter of agreement to sell gas from the terminal to Companhia de Gás do Pará, which holds exclusive rights to distribute natural gas throughout Pará state.

Brazilian hydrocarbons regulator ANP (Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis) granted final approval for construction of the terminal in December 2020. The Celba terminal was expected to become the first LNG import facility in the state of Pará and the North region of Brazil upon startup of commercial operations in 2022.

In August 2022, New Fortress Energy (NFE) announced that start-up of the terminal had been delayed to 2023, raising concerns that spiking European demand provoked by the Russia-Ukraine war might be restricting LNG supply to NFE's Brazilian operations.

In October 2022, BNAmericas reported that NFE was looking to sell off its Brazilian LNG projects (Terminal Gás Sul and Celba FSRU) to a new owner.

In May 2023, New Fortress Energy confirmed that the terminal was still on track to begin commercial operations in late 2023, although a Q1 2023 investor presentation showed that the company expected no income from its Barcarena operations until 2024. In August 2023, reporting confirmed the intended Q4 2023 start timeline.

In February 2024, New Fortress Energy announced that the Barcarena terminal had been placed into service, with regasification operations handled by the Energos Celsius FSRU. The Celsius, chartered by NFE from Energos Infrastructure, arrived at Barcarena after its conversion from an LNG carrier in Singapore. NFE reported the FSRU's capacity as 6 mtpa, compared to the 15 MMm³ per day originally projected by the Brazilian government. The terminal was expected to begin immediate gas delivery to Norsk Hydro’s Alunorte refinery under a 15-year supply agreement, and to start supplying NFE's Novo Tempo Barcarena power station upon the power plant's commissioning in the third quarter of 2025.

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