First Gen wants to deliver natural gas to ecozones
By Lenie Lectura – November 2, 2020
from Business Mirror
File photo: First Gen’s natural gas power plants in Batangas
FGEN LNG Corp. (FGEN LNG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Gen Corp., is looking at supplying natural gas in economic zones and industrial parks in the country via small-scale liquefied natural gas (ssLNG) technology.
It is targeting to introduce ssLNG at the First Philippine Industrial Park (FPIP), which is strategically located in the Calabarzon (Cavite-Laguna-Batangas-Rizal- Quezon) industrial region.
The plan is to bring LNG via trucks and specialized insulated containers from FGEN LNG’s Interim Offshore LNG Terminal, which will be located at the First Gen Clean Energy Complex in Batangas City, approximately 50 kilometers away from FPIP.
The use of ssLNG technology can enable the LNG delivery and, once regasified, use it as natural gas in locations in which developing a traditional gas pipeline network is not feasible.
It will be dome in two phases.
First, FGEN LNG and FPIP will assess introducing ssLNG to FPIP’s industrial park and shall identify a site inside the industrial park that can accommodate a satellite LNG receiving, storage, and regasification facility, which can then serve locators in the industrial park and other nearby industrial users.
In the second phase, FGEN LNG will examine bringing LNG to other islands in the Philippines using small-scale LNG carriers.
“We are excited to democratize the use of natural gas in the Philippines using new technology to create small-scale LNG opportunities in the Philippines by taking LNG supplied in bulk in large LNG carriers and delivering it in small quantities to new industrial, commercial, and remote customers that have so far been unable to access natural gas due to the large investment and undertaking required to construct traditional gas infrastructure, such as transmission pipelines,” said Jonathan C. Russell, executive vice president and chief commercial officer of First Gen.
Several existing and potential new locators have already expressed keen interest in using LNG and natural gas directly for various manufacturing process applications.
