Hydrocarbon Processing - April 2021 - GP-4

GAS PROCESSING NEWS
A. BLUME, Editor-in-Chief

BCCK signs deal
for landfill gas-toenergy plant
BCCK Holding Co. (BCCK)
signed an agreement with
Archaea Energy to provide a
13,700-sft3/min Style IV NiTech
nitrogen rejection unit (NRU)
to the world's largest high-BTU
landfill gas-to-energy plant in
Pennsylvania, U.S.
The Style IV NiTech process
design features a new, modularskidded design that allows
greater flexibility with respect
to compositional changes or
flow capacity changes. BCCK's
NiTech technology performs
a key role in transforming landfill
gas into nearly 100% pure
renewable natural gas.
The NRUs, which are
engineered in-house and
fabricated at BCCK's fabrication
facility, deliver smaller footprint,
less compression requirements
in terms of horsepower
and higher recovery, all at
reduced CAPEX.

Energy Transfer
to buy Enable
Midstream
for $2.6 B
Energy Transfer LP plans to
buy Enable Midstream Partners
to strengthen its natural gas
transportation business as it faces
a legal battle that could shut its
Dakota Access crude pipeline.
The $2.6-B deal, announced in
mid-February, came just weeks
after a U.S. appeals court dealt a
blow to the 557,000-bpd Dakota
pipeline, raising the chances
that it will be shut pending an
environmental review.
Regulators have also denied
permits to notable natural gas
pipelines, while the new Biden
administration has effectively
canceled the Keystone XL
pipeline project and has indicated
its intention to limit oil and gas
drilling on federal lands.
The acquisition was valued at
about $7.2 B, including debt. The
deal will provide gas gathering
and processing assets in the
Arkoma basin across Oklahoma
and Arkansas, as well as the
Haynesville Shale in East Texas
and North Louisiana. Energy
Transfer expects the combined
company to generate more than
$100 MM of annual run-rate cost
and efficiency savings.

Australia marks LNG export record in 2020
Australia exported a
record 78 MMt of LNG in
2020, up from 77.5 MMt
in 2019, according to
estimates by EnergyQuest.
The record-high levels
were reported despite
the disruptions to Gorgon
output, Prelude not
producing LNG since early
February 2020, production
issues at Wheatstone
and COVID-19 demand
destruction for LNG,
especially early in the year.
Australian production
was above Qatar's
estimated nameplate
capacity of 77 MMtpy.
The Australian projects
operated at 89% of total
nameplate capacity of 87.8 MMtpy. Australia's 2020 total LNG export revenue was estimated at A$36.1 B,
a decrease from A$48.7 B in 2019. LNG export revenue was impacted by lower oil prices seen through
much of the year since April, coupled with low spot prices for LNG.
Meanwhile, Woodside is looking to sell a 50% stake in the new production train at its Pluto LNG plant
in Western Australia, as a precondition for a planned, $11-B expansion at its Scarborough gas development.
The renewed push by Australia's largest independent gas producer on the 8-metric-MMtpy expansion
project comes after last year's COVID-19-induced collapse in oil and gas prices drove Woodside's underlying
annual profit down 58% to $447 MM.

Tema LNG regas
facility begins
deliveries

Tema LNG's FRU arrived in
Ghana in early January, allowing
Tema LNG Terminal Co. to start
delivering LNG to customers in
Q1 2021. The LNG is supplied under
a long-term contract with Shell.
Tema LNG, backed by
Helios Investment Partners and
Africa Infrastructure Investment
Managers, is the first offshore LNG
receiving terminal in sub-Saharan
Africa. The terminal employs the
innovative combination of the
FRU twinned with an existing
LNG carrier to receive, store and
regasify 1.7 MMtpy of LNG.
This system provides Ghana
with all the functionality of a large
scale FRU terminal, but with added
flexibility. This enables Ghana
National Petroleum Corp. to supply
reliable and cost-effective gas into
the Tema power and industrial
enclave while strengthening West
Africa's energy security.

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Israel to link Leviathan gas field
to Egypt LNG plants
Israel and Egypt have agreed to build a pipeline to connect Israel's
offshore Leviathan natural gas field to LNG terminals in northern Egypt.
Palestine has also signed an agreement with Egypt's energy minister,
who visited Israel and the occupied West Bank, to develop a gas field
off the coast of Gaza. Israel and Egypt are both looking for new ways
to expand the development of East Mediterranean natural gas.
Israel's Leviathan field, located 130 km (80 mi) off Israel's coast,
already supplies the Israeli domestic market and exports gas to
Jordan and Egypt. Its shareholders include Chevron and Delek Drilling.
Leviathan's partners have been exploring options to expand the
project, including a floating LNG facility or a subsea pipeline to link up
with LNG terminals in Egypt that have been idled or run at less than
their nameplate capacity.
Meanwhile, Palestine has asked Egypt for help in developing the
Gaza Marine field with the project's partners, the Palestine Investment
Fund, the sovereign fund of the Palestinian Authority and Consolidated
Contractors Co. Gaza Marine sits approximately 30 km (19 mi) off
the Palestinian enclave's coast and is estimated to hold more than
1 Tft3 of natural gas.

Technip, Chiyoda awarded
LNG contracts for Qatar LNG
TechnipFMC announced that CTJV, a joint venture between
Chiyoda Corp. and Technip Energies, has been awarded a major
EPCC contract by Qatar Petroleum for the onshore facilities of the
North Field East project.
The award will cover the delivery of four mega-trains, each with
a capacity of 8 MMtpy of LNG and associated utility facilities. It will
include a large CO2 capture and sequestration facility, leading to more
than 25% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions when compared to
similar LNG facilities.
The new facilities will receive approximately 6 Bsft3d of feed gas
from the eastern sector of Qatar's North Field, which is the largest
nonassociated gas field in the world. The expansion project will
produce approximately 33 MMtpy of additional LNG, increasing
Qatar's total production from 77 MMtpy to 110 MMtpy.

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