Manzanillo power plant and LNG facility update

Posted by Bret B on March 10, 2012, 10:03 pm
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In case you've been wondering how the conversion of the Manzanillo power plant to natural gas is going, here's an update: The LNG regasification facility a few km south of the power plant has been mostly completed and will receive its first shipload of LNG from Peru later this month: http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/NaturalGas/6037787. Gas will also go through a completed pipeline to run power plants(s) near Guadalajara. A thread on the Tomzap Manzanillo message board (http://69.73.170.179/ph5/read.php?15,56619) from Oct/Nov 2011 sounds pretty sure that some of the generators at the power plant had already been converted to gas, and the last ones should be done by this spring. I'm not sure how they could have converted nearly all of the generators before the FIRST shipment of LNG arrived. Sounds like a recipe for a power shortage during the "gap". Can they run on either the old heavy fuel oil ("combustoleo") or the natural gas after the conversion? And finally the Go Manzanillo site had an undated translation from a Mexican news article with a lot of good details and photos of the project (http://www.gomanzanillo.com/features/CFE/index.htm). Sounds like the brown cloud that covers Manzanillo many days of the year (and sometimes makes it as far as La Manzanilla) may finally go away soon (or be much abated)! Now lets just put out those cigarettes when the giant floating bombs come into the LNG facility...

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