Decisions to debottleneck Atlantic LNG Trains 1, 2, 3 and 4 would be determined before the first quarter of 2010, Energy Minister Conrad Enill has said. “We have a proposal that we are currently considering. The technical team is looking at it and it is certainly going to provide us with the additional revenue that we are projecting. It will also enhance plant efficiency, which I think is also part of the issue as well.
That would certainly be something that would be high on the agenda because it would fix the short term challenge that we have as a consequence of the depressed prices,” Enill said. The Minister was speaking at a press conference yesterday to reveal the findings of the latest Ryder Scott report on the prove natural gas reserves in Trinidad and Tobago. Enill’s comments followed reports that the debottlenecking of Trains 1 to 4 would create additional capacity equivalent to a small train and add up to 300 million standard cubic feet for each day to the throughput capacity of the liquifaction facilities at Point Fortin.
“That was a discussion that we had with the stakeholders. We had two discussions going on; one was the discussion about debottlenecking and what the debottlenecking option allows you is the ability, with limited resources and limited in the context of available opportunities, get additional capacity out of the particular plant.”
