Gas comes to America
15 Oct 2004
BP and its partners in the Tangguh Liquefied Natural Gas Project have signed a long term sales and purchase agreement with Sempra Energy to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Indonesia to markets in Mexico and the US.
Under the agreement, up to 3.7 million tonnes of LNG a year will be delivered from the BP-operated Tangguh LNG project in Indonesia over a period of 20 years beginning in 2008 to Sempra Energy's proposed LNG receiving terminal near Ensenada in Baja California, Mexico.
The terminal, when completed, will have the capacity to process up to 1 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas - approximately 7.5 million tonnes per year. Sempra will market the gas to Mexico and the west coast of the US.
The Tangguh LNG project is located in the Berau-Bintuni Bay region of Teluk Bintuni Regency, Papua, Indonesia. The project is operated by BP Indonesia, which holds a 37.16% stake in the project, as a contractor to BPMIGAS (Badan Pelaksana Kegiatan Usaha Hulu Minyak dan Gas Bumi), the Indonesian government agency for supervising and managing oil and gas exploration and production business activities.
