Quintero LNG Import Terminal

Summary Information

• Ownership: GNL Quintero SA (Omers Infrastructure Chile Holdings I SpA, Enagás Chile SpA and ENAP)
• Website: http://www.gnlquintero.com/ (Spanish)
• Location: Bay of Quintero, 110 kilometres from Santiago, Chile
• Capacity: 4.0 million tons/annum
• Status: Operational

Brief Description

• The Terminal has three LNG storage tanks. The two main tanks are 56 meters high and 80 meters in diameter and can each store up to 160,000 cubic meters of LNG
• The Terminal has four vaporizers, each with a regasification capacity of approximately 5 million cubic meters per day
• The jetty has a length of 1.9 kilometers, an average height of 12.5 meters and a depth of 24 meters at its head and can receive ships with a capacity of up to 265,000 cubic meters of LNG.

Technical Details

• Storage capacity: 3x 160,000 M3
• Unloading capacity: Vessels up to 265,000 cubic meters
• Send out capacity: 20 mcm per day
• Constructor:
  • Licensor: Feasibility study and conceptual design

Ongoing Projects/Project Status

• Commercial operations began in 2009]
• An additional tank wss being constructed with a capacity of 175,000 m3
• The terminal is being expanded
  • The project involves the installation of a new train of vaporization, which will join the two currently in operation, and having backup. After the expansion, the complex will increase by nearly 5 million m3/day capacity LNG regasification, reached a total of about 15 million m3/day

Suppliers / Customers

• Suppliers: LNG is supplied from the supply portfolio of BG Group
• Customers:

History

• 2006 - BG Group selected to supply and participate in a LNG regasification plant
• 2007 - GNL Quintero S.A. incorporated and project sanctioned
• 2007 - EPC contract signed and import terminal construction started
• 2007 - BG Group and partners incorporated GNL Quintero S.A. and executed the shareholders’ agreement.
• 2009 - BG Group delivered the first cargo of LNG to Chile in July
• 2012 - BG Group agrees to sell its shareholding to Enagás
• 2012 - The Board approved Quintero LNG start the Terminal expansion project
• 2015 - Capacity increased from 2.5 to 4 mtpa with the completion of the expansion

Other Information

• BG Group holds a 40%, ENAP 20%, Endesa 20%, Metrogas S.A. of Santiago 20%

Links

1. BG Group Chile
2. Tractebel Engineering LNG References
3. BG Group agrees to sell its equity interest in Chilean LNG terminal
4. BG Group finalises agreement to meet natural gas demand in Chile
5. GDF SUEZ to build on-shore LNG storage tank in Chile: share increased in LNG regasification terminal company, GNLM
6. Quintero LNG expansion starts at 50% of its capacity regasification terminal
7. Enagás completes acquisition of 20% stake in the Quintero LNG regasification terminal in Chile
8. BG Group completes sale of interest in Chilean LNG terminal