The LNG service provider Excalibur
Argentina’s biggest power firm, YPF, has actually gotten to an initial arrangement with Excelerate Energy L.P. for the charter of an LNG service provider that will certainly export LNG from the Tango FLNG device, situated in Bah ía Blanca, to the international gas market. The goal is to begin procedures in the initial week of September.
“We continue progressing in our ambition to add value to Argentine natural gas and to export surpluses during those months of low local consumption, to fully extract the potential as producer and exporter of Argentine natural gas,” stated Marcos Browne, Executive Vice President of Gas as well as Energy at YPF
Gabriela Aguilar, General Manager of Excelerate in Argentina, included, “It is a milestone for us to partner with YPF in this activity by contributing all of our industry know-how in the transportation of Argentine natural gas to the world.”
The gas, generated mostly from Vaca Muerta, will certainly be refined by the Tango FLNG device at the “Mega” port in Bah ía Blanca, as well as from there, it will certainly be moved by the 138,000 cu.m LNG service provider Excalibur. The loading of YPF’s item to the LNG service provider will certainly be accomplished via a procedure that will certainly last about 45 days.
The ship given by Excelerate has actually confirmed experience generally worldwide LNG terminals, and also as component of this arrangement, will certainly remain in the solution to YPF up until May 2020. It will certainly be among 2 ships that YPF will certainly use to transportation Argentine LNG to the international market.
