A second floating storage and regasification unit has arrived in Brazil and is due to start commissioning operations shortly, writes Lucy Hine.
Golar LNG chief executive Gary Smith confirmed that the newly converted FSRU Golar Winter has reached Port Pecem in the north of the country where it will begin cool-down operations.
The vessel, which left Singapore’s Keppel Shipyard at the end of May, picked up an LNG cargo in Trinidad before heading south to its new home.
Golar Winter, which has the capacity to send out 14 million cubic metres per day of gas, is the second of two FSRUs chartered long-term to Brazilian state energy company Petrobras.
The converted Golar Spirit was delivered last July. That unit, which can send out around 6 MMcmd per day, was used to commission the Port Pecem facility in Ceara state.
Early this year it moved south to cool down the second facility in Guanabara Bay, near Rio de Janeiro, where the Golar Winter is expected to be stationed normally. Both FSRUs have been designed to be interchangeable at each site.
