Shandong to Build Brazilian Plant
Petrobras has awarded a contract to a consortium of Chinese Shandong Kerui Petroleum and Brazilian Metodo Potencial to build Brazil's biggest natural gas processing plant in Itaborai, about 50 km east of Rio de Janeiro.
The contract is worth real 1.95bn ($590mn), Petrobras said March 29. The proposed plant, part of the Rota 3 project, will process natural gas produced from subsalt areas of the Santos basin and allow for more gas to be produced. It will have a capacity to process up to 21mn m³/d. Work is expected to start in H1 2018 and expected to be complete in H2 2020, Petrobras said.
The project is likely to substantially increase the infrastructure for processing of gas from the pre-salt layer from 23mn m3/d to 44mn m3/d and will help in reducing imports, Petrobras said.