China National Offshore Oil Corporation's Tianjin LNG project approved by the National Development and Reform Commission

2013-08-21 09:00

The Tianjin LNG project of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has officially been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission. Following the approval and operation of the Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Shanghai LNG projects in South and East China, CNOOC's LNG layout has secured a crucial position in the northern region, thus essentially completing its coastal LNG industrial layout from south to north.

According to Guangming.com's energy report, the Tianjin LNG project site is located in the Tianjin Port South Jiang Port Area. It is the first floating LNG project in China, a national pilot project for clean energy floating technology, a key project for Tianjin, and a key project for CNOOC.

To quickly provide Tianjin with clean energy, the Tianjin LNG project adopts a "floating first, then conventional" construction model: the first phase involves building a floating LNG receiving terminal to enable rapid natural gas supply and provide Tianjin with clean energy; the expansion project involves building a conventional large-scale LNG receiving station to ensure a stable natural gas supply, and, in addition to meeting Tianjin's natural gas needs, to transport clean natural gas energy to Hebei, Beijing, and Shandong.

As the first floating LNG project in China, compared to conventional LNG receiving stations, Tianjin LNG uses a floating LNG receiving terminal to achieve rapid LNG supply, shortening the construction period by 3-4 years. This has opened up a new path for the development of China's LNG clean energy industry. Floating gasification technology is relatively mature internationally, with successful precedents in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, and Kuwait.

The first-phase floating project of the Tianjin LNG project consists of four parts: a floating storage regasification unit (FSRU), port terminal project, receiving station and tank project, and gas pipeline project. The construction scale is 2.2 million tons/year, equivalent to 3 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year; the expansion project scale will be no less than 6 million tons/year, equivalent to 8 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year.

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