(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 13.Mar.2019) — EIG Global Energy Partners says it will use a FRSU at its Azul Port, the second largest port in the world and the largest in the Americas, to import gas, Chairman and CEO R. Blair Thomas said March 13 during IHS Markit’s CERAWeek in Houston.
The $9 billion to $9.5 billion port — under development for the last 12 years with partner BP and covering 90 square kilometers — is about 1.5 times the size of Manhattan, said Thomas.
EIG will initially use imported gas to feed its 6,000-megawatt gas-fired power facility, currently under construction, and eventually use pre-salt gas once additional infrastructure is in place to send more gas onshore.
Thomas did not provide an estimated completion date for the project.
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