Pecém FSRU

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Pecém FSRU is a floating LNG terminal in Ceará, Brazil.

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Project Details

  • Terminal Operator: Petrobras[1][2][3]
  • Terminal Owner: Petrobras[1][2][3]
  • Vessel name: Energos Winter[1][3]
  • Vessel owner: Energos[1]
  • Vessel parent company: Energos[1]
  • Location: Port of Pecém, São Gonçalo do Amarante, Ceará, Brazil
    • Coordinates: -3.546667, -38.831389 (approximate)
  • Capacity: 3.8 Mtpa[1][2], 7 million m3 per day[4]
  • Status: Operating[1][2][5]
  • Type: Import
  • Start Year: 2009[1][6]

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Background

Pecém FSRU is is a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) located at Pier 2 of the Port of Pecém in Ceará, Brazil.[3] It was the country's first flexible liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal, and is capable of transferring 7 million cubic meters of LNG per day to the GASFOR (Guamaré-Pecém) Gas Pipeline.[3][7] The Pecém terminal supplies the Termoceará and Fortaleza power stations.[8][9]

As of August 2019, it was one of three LNG terminals operated by Petrobras on Brazil's Atlantic coast, together with the Guanabara Bay FSRU and the Bahia FSRU[10]; the Petrobras terminals import LNG from various countries, including Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, Qatar, Spain and the United States.[11]

Potential Change in Ownership in 2024

CIPP, the company that manages Pecém's port complex, announced in July 2023 that Petrobras's contract for exclusive use of Pier 2 would expire at the end of the year, opening the way for another company to establish regasification operations at the pier.[12] At least two other companies have expressed interest in setting up a new LNG terminal in Pecém.[13][14][15][16] Shell, which has a contract to supply gas to Ceiba Energy's 1.6 GW Portocém power station starting in 2026, has been looking at forming a partnership with OnCorp to build a 13 million m³ per day regasification plant at the Port of Pecém.[13][14][17] Meanwhile, BP has been pursuing its own separate plans to develop a Pecém-based LNG hub, with the aim of supplying gas to the 2.2 GW Termopecém power station, as noted in a memorandum of understanding signed with Ceará's state government in early 2022.[13][14] Because Pecém is a private-use terminal, CIPP is free to negotiate a deal with either company starting on January 1, 2024.[13][14] CIPP's president Danilo Serpa has also speculated that there might be sufficient space to accommodate two separate terminals at the port.[13][14] As of July 2023, the future of the Pecém LNG facility remained in limbo.

Articles and resources

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "GIIGNL Annual Report 2023 (p 59)" (PDF). GIIGNL. July 13, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "2023 World LNG Report (p 149)". IGU. July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Fick, Jeff (2021-12-06). "Excelerate takes over operations of Brazil LNG terminal at Bahia: Petrobras". S&P Global.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. Petrobras puts two LNG terminals on sale, LNG World News, June 9, 2016
  5. Fick, Jeff (2022-01-13). "Petrobras triples LNG imports in 2021 amid drought, pipeline work". S&P Global.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "IGU World LNG Report (p 101)". International Gas Union. 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. "Petrobras inicia processo para acesso ao Terminal de Regaseificação de GNL de Pecém | Agência Petrobras". Petrobras. September 17, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. Pecém Regasification Terminal (LNG), PETROBRAS, accessed May 2017
  9. "Análise prévia do Leilão de Energia Nova (LEN) A-5, de 30 de setembro de 2021". IEMA - Instituto de Energia e Meio Ambiente. September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. "Terminais de Regaseificação de GNL no Brasil: Panorama dos Principais Projetos (p 16)" (PDF). EPE (Empresa de Pesquisa Energética). August 30, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. "Mercado nacional de GNL deve se diversificar nos próximos anos". Petrobras. March 10, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. "Contrato entre CIPP e Petrobras". CIPP (Companhia de Desenvolvimento do Complexo Industrial e Portuário do Pecém). July 12, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 "Empresas travam corrida por novo terminal de GNL do Pecém, no Ceará". EPBR. June 24, 2022.
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 "Companies put obstacles before new LNG terminal in Pecém". Datamar News. June 28, 2022.
  15. Ruth Rodrigues (June 25, 2022). "Com o contrato de exclusividade da Petrobras chegando ao fim, BP e Shell iniciam corrida para instalação de novo terminal de gás natural no Porto do Pecém, no Ceará". CPG Click Petroleo e Gas.
  16. "Um giro pelos novos terminais de GNL do Brasil". EPBR. May 5, 2023.
  17. "OnCorp planeja terminal de GNL no Porto do Pecém, no Ceará". EPBR. June 22, 2022.

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