Project Profile
Value: US$952 million
Location: Rudong County, Jiangsu, China
Area: 0.3 sq km
Storage capacity: 680,000 cubic metres
Unloading capacity: 80,000-270,000 cu m LNG ships
Start-up Year: 2013
Jiangsu LNG Project is located on an artificial island in the Rudong County of China\'s Jiangsu province. It includes a LNG receiving terminal and related infrastructure. The project is being jointly developed by PetroChina, Pacific Oil & Gas and the Jiangsu Guoxin Investment Group with an estimated investment of US$952m. The project includes an LNG terminal, a jetty, a pierhead trestle and a sea-crossing pipeline. The artificial island built for the project occupies an area of 0.3 square kilometres (sq.km).
Government of Jiangsu province and PetroChina signed an agreement to develop the project in 2005. Construction of the artificial island for the project started in January 2007. By November 2007, land for the terminal block was successfully reclaimed. Tank installation commenced in March 2009 and by April 2009 the first piece of the first tank vault was hoisted in place. The second tank was installed in September 2010. The sea-crossing pipeline was completed in June 2011. Construction is being carried out in two phases. The first phase was officially completed in November 2011. Phase one has an annual capacity of 3.5 mt. The plant is designed for a maximum capacity of 10mt.
The terminal includes LNG unloading, storage, regasification and gas metering facilities. The first phase of the project includes the construction of three 160,000 cubic metre storage tanks, a stage, three open rack vaporisers (ORVs), three submerged combustion vaporisers (SCVs), three 20in unloading arms and one return arm. Phase two of the project will add one ORV and SCV to the terminal.
The jetty is 430m long and includes a working platform, four mooring dolphins, six bollards and a steel trestle for pedestrians. It can berth LNG carriers with a capacity of 80,000 cubic metres to 267,000 cubic metres. The sea-crossing pipeline is 19km long, 1,016mm in diameter and 26.2mm thick. It includes a normal section, a sea-crossing bridge section and an off-take station. Annual capacity of the pipeline is 10mt of gas.
Operators:
PetroChina: 55% interest
Pacific Oil & Gas: 35% interest
Jiangsu Guoxin Investment Group: 10% interest
Contractors:
Whessoe: Carried out the feasibility studies for the project.
Kogas: Responsible for providing commissioning, training and consulting services for operation and maintenance of the plant.
Meyts Structural Consulting: Responsible for the construction of the tanks of the terminal.
Technodyne: Involved in the construction of the tanks of the terminal.
AMPO: Contract to supply various valves (Poyam Valves) for the project.