$500 million terminal
10 Feb 2005
A Black & Veatch-led consortium comprised of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Vinci Construction Grands Projets of France and Techint of Mexico has been awarded a $500 million contract by a Sempra subsidiary to build a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal in Mexico.
Specifically, the terminal, developed for Sempra LNG, will be built at the company's Energia Costa Azul terminal located 14 miles north of Ensenada.
The large-scale LNG terminal will encompass an LNG jetty, unloading facilities, LNG storage tanks and re-gasification facilities.
The terminal, which is the first to be located along the Pacific coast of the Americas, will be capable of receiving 7.6 million tons of LNG per year and processing one billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. The contract calls for construction of two above-ground LNG tanks each having a storage capacity of 160,000 cubic metres.
When completed in 2008, the terminal will supply gas for power generation and household use throughout Baja California, enabling Mexico to become self-reliant in those areas. Currently, the country has had to import natural gas from the US. The LNG itself will be imported from Sakhalin, Russia, and Tangguh, Indonesia.
Black & Veatch and Techint will undertake terminal design and construction work, including LNG regasification and LNG unloading facilities. MHI and Vinci Construction Grands Projets will be responsible for construction of the LNG storage tanks.
