Map Ta Phut Thailand LNG Terminal

Summary Information

• Ownership: PTT LNG
• Website: http://www.pttlng.com/
• Location: Map Ta Phut Thailand
• Capacity: 5.0 million tons/annum
• Status: In operation

Brief Description

• A large single train LNG gasification terminal

Technical Details

• Storage capacity: 160,000 m3 x 2
• Unloading capacity: LNG vessels size with 125,000 to 264,000 cubic meters capacity
• Send out capacity: 700 mmscfd
• Constructor:
  • **Fluor:** Project Management and Consultant role
  • **GS/Kogas/HYC/DEC:** Integrated engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning services of a re-gasification and send-out system, a marine jetty with complete ship unloading facilities and two large full containment LNG storage tanks.
  • **Freyssinet:** Pre-stressing for LNG tanks

Ongoing Projects/Project Status

• Project was completed in 2011
• PTT is planning to double the capacity of the terminal

Suppliers / Customers

• Suppliers:
  • PTT has signed a deal to buy 1 million tonnes of LNG a year from Qatar from late 2011
  • PTT also buys LNG in spot markets
• Customers: The area has petrochemical, refinery, steel and fertiliser industries

History

• 2006 - Fluor awarded Project Management and Consultant role
• 2008 - Consortium of GS/Kogas/HYC/DEC awarded construction contract
• 2011 - The terminal receives its first cargo
• 2011 - Terminal opening
• 2012 - PTT – Qatargas sign 20-year LNG supply agreement
• 2017 - Terminal expansion project completed

Other Information

• This construction of LNG receiving terminal in Thailand is the first overseas LNG terminal project as Korean E&C companies.

Links

1. Freyssinet LNG Tank References
2. 540 USD mil Overseas LNG Terminal Plant Award
3. Thailand LNG Project Development and Outlook
4. GS E&C-Led Team wins the first LNG Re-gasification Terminal Contract in Thailand
5. Thailand's first LNG terminal to operate from July-PTT
6. QATARGAS COMMISSIONS THAILAND’S FIRST LNG RECEIVING TERMINAL
7. Thailand Minister of Energy inaugurates sixth gas separation plant and LNG terminal
8. $400m LNG expansion
9. PTT – Qatargas sign 20-year LNG supply agreement for energy reserve, greater national energy security with a supply start-up planned for early 2015