Project Profile
Value: $8,500 Million
Startup Year: Q3 2016
LNG: 10 million tonne/year
LPG: 2 million tonne/year
Location: Brass, Bayelsa State, Delta State
The Brass LNG Project will be capable of producing 10 million tonnes of LNG per annum, via two 5 million production LNG trains. The LNG is mostly destined for Europe and the USA along the Atlantic Ocean basin. The project will produce 500,000 tonnes of natural gas liquids and two million tonnes per annum of LPG.
The Swamp and Land Area fields will be the source of gas feedstock.
There are four tender packages, which include:
1. The onshore package covering construction of the plant excluding the trains
2. Offshore works comprising the loading platform, breakwater
3. Export facilities
4. Subsea pipeline
Off takers include: GDF Suez, BP, BG Group, ConocoPhillips, Total, and ENI.
Operator:
Brass LNG Ltd.
Which is a joint company consisting of:
ConocoPhillips: 17% interest (sold to remaining shareholders in July 2014)
Eni: 17% interest
Total: 17% interest
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC): 40% interest
LNG Japan: 4% interest
Itochu Corporation: 3% interest
Consortium operators holding 2% interest:
Sempra Energy
Sahara Group
Chevron: Gas supplier
Contractors:
Bechtel: FEED and PMC contract (200)
Boskalis Westminster: Site preparations
ConocoPhillips: Optimised Cascade Process technology
Fugro: Geophysical and geotechnical survey
Sub Contractor:
Netco (National Engineering & Technial Compamy Ltd): FEED for Bechtel