Project Profile

Location: Point Fortin, Trinidad & Tobago
Start-up year Train 1: March 2000
Start-up year Train 2: March 2002
Start-up year Train 3: April 2003
Start-up year Train 4: December 2005
Capacity: 15.5 million mt per annum

Atlantic LNG constructed two LNG trains at the Point Fortin Refinery in early 2000. This was the first greenfield LNG plant to be built in the Western Hemisphere in 25 years. The LNG facility at Point Fortin Refinery has now grown to include four trains.

The first train involved an investment of approximately US$1 billon with Bechtel Overseas Inc selected as the main contractor responsible for the engineering, procurement, construction and start up of operations. Train 1 was operational by 1999, uses the Philips cascade process and can handle 3.1mtpa (million tonnes per annum) of liquefaction and has two 102,000m³ LNG storage tanks.

The major shareholders in all four LNG trains are British Gas, British Petroleum, Repsol, ENI and PetroCanada.

An agreement for expansion of the Atlantic LNG facility at Point Fortin, Trinidad, was signed on 13 March 2000. The Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and Atlantic LNG agreed on terms for a two-train expansion.

All storage tanks were designed by Arup as double containment systems to resist seismic activity. BP Amoco, British Gas and their respective partners supply gas to the project and the LNG produced is intended for the Spanish and US markets.

Operators:

Atlantic: Operator with 100% interest

Contractors:

Bechtel: EPC contract for Train 1

Arup: Designed storage tanks

WorleyParsons: provider of full service engineering and project and portfolio management services under a Master Services Agreement (MSA) for the Atlantic Company of Trinidad and Tobago’s (Atlantic’s) four LNG trains

Subcontractors:

Phillips: Cascade process utilised by Bechtel