GDF SUEZ es el pibe ganador...

... para la nueva terminal de importación en Argentina, Puerto Cuatreros, bastante cerquita de Bahía Blanca. Aquí os paso la noticia de LNG Unlimited:

ARGENTINA WIN-WIN FOR GDF SUEZ SHIP

One of two idle shuttle and regas vessels may act as import terminal

French giant GDF Suez is being tipped to scoop the job of providing an LNG regasification vessel to act as a third import terminal for Argentina.

An agreement has been reached, according to industry sources, for one of the company's two long-term chartered shuttle and regasification vessels (SRVs) to be used for the GNL Puerto Cuatreros project.

However, others following the business insist the process remains "fluid". Repsol-controlled YPF
and state energy company Enarsa have been advancing plans to set up the terminal at a site in Bahia Blanca to the south of Buenos Aires where they installed Argentina's first floating LNG import facility in 2008.

GNL Puerto Cuatreros, which would have 14 million to 20 million cubic metres per day of send-out capacity, is being fasttracked into operation in late 2012 or early the following year. The short lead-in time mirrors the development plans followed by the partners for the original Bahia Blanca facility and the duo's GNL Escobar facility in the north of the country, which opened this year.

The new terminal would be connected to the gas grid near the town of General Cerri by a 13.5- kilometre pipeline but the plan provides for onshore regasification facilities to be built with a 2014 start-up target.

GDF Suez's two SRVs, the 145,130-cbm GDF Suez Neptune (built 2009) and GDF Suez Cape Ann (built 2010), were purpose-built to serve the company's Neptune LNG deep-water port off the US East Coast. However, the facility has hardly been used and the company has been seeking other roles for the ships.

It is understood to have tied up one of the vessels to China National Offshore Oil Corporation to Serve as a floating import facility off Tianjin.

Some industry players are questioning how GDF Suez can redeploy the ships as under the terms of its licence for Neptune it is obliged to have a regas vessel available.