Project Profile
Value: US$500 Million
Location: Mombasa
Storage capacity: 70,000 tonnes of gas
The Mombasa LNG Plant and Import Facility is located in Mombasa city, Kenya, Africa. Kenya proposed a plan to build a 500MW natural gas-fired power plant in Mombasa to boost the country’s supply and to construct an offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) importing, handling and storage facility. The two projects was undertaken simultaneously upon the completion of an environmental impact assessment by Nairobi based Kurrent Technologies Ltd, alongside UK based venture partner Mott MacDonald.
An associated project of the LNG import terminal is laying an underground pipeline to deliver natural gas to the Mombasa based Kipevu 1 and Kipevu III thermal power plants of KenGen, currently using heavy fuel oil. Kipevu I and Kipevu III thermal electricity plants use Warstila engines, which can consume natural gas with minimal modifications.
The LNG terminal at the port city of Mombasa will have two storage tanks, each holding some 35,000 tonnes of gas. The planned liquefied natural gas terminal is to cost US$500 million and construction is expected to take three years. The project is expected to be operational latest by 2017.
Operator:
Kenya Ministry of Energy
Contractor:
Mott MacDonald: Consultancy services