The plant, with capacity of approximately 4.5 million tons per year, cools the natural gas to -160°C (-260°F), reducing the volume by approximately 600 times to facilitate storage and transportation. The liquefaction plant utilizes a propane pre-cooled mixed component refrigerant process, four refrigeration compressors, two gas turbines and associated systems.
In addition, CB&I constructed a gas treatment plant, power generation utilities, two 130,000 cubic meter LNG storage tanks, the topsides of the 1,300mt trestle and the ship loading facilities.
Hunt Oil is the owner and operator of Peru LNG, partnering with SK Energy of South Korea, Spain’s Repsol and Marubeni of Japan. The project is located in the remote Pampa Melchorita area about 170km south of Lima.
Ray Hunt, chairman and CEO of Hunt Oil, said: “CB&I has been an outstanding partner on the PERU LNG project. We applaud them for their great success in bringing this project in on time and under budget with a safety record that is ten times better than the industry norm.”
