Shell’s LNG Canada names new CEO

One of the largest private investments in Canadian history, LNG Canada is a long-life asset with a 40-year export license that will initially produce 14 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) LNG for export with plans to double its capacity to 28 mtpa with a proposed Phase 2 expansion.

A Phase 2 final investment decision will take into account several factors on behalf of all JVPs, which include over-all competitiveness, affordability, pace, future GHG emissions and stakeholder needs, LNG Canada said.

In October, Shell’s LNG Canada started cooldown activities at its liquefaction and export terminal in Kitimat, as part of the project’s commissioning and start-up phase.

LNG Canada received a cargo of refrigerants (liquefied petroleum gas) onboard the tanker Gaschem Atlantic.

Klein said in September the project was over 95 percent complete.

He noted that LNG Canada introduced natural gas to the facility for the first time, from the new Coastal GasLink pipeline.

He previously said the start-up activities would take more than a year to complete.

Contractor JGC Fluor is constructing the first phase of the giant LNG Canada project that includes two liquefaction trains with a capacity of 14 mtpa.

Besides operator Shell, other partners in the project include Malaysia’s Petronas, PetroChina, Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation, and South Korea’s Kogas.