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LNG to the Eight RegionEcuadorian delegation visits LNG plant in Pemuco

ENAP has been the pioneer in South America in the development of projects based on liquefied natural gas and is an example for other countries that wish to follow this route.

The Ecuadorian government, through five representatives of that country’s ministries related to energy matters, visited the LNG infrastructure in Chile, like the GNL Quintero plant and the Pemuco LNG re-gasification satellite plant in the 8th Region.

The Biobío Region was visited by a team of experts from Ecuador, consisting of José Icaza Romero, under-secretary of natural gas and derivatives development, Carlos Quinde, adviser to the Ministry of Non-Renewable Natural Resources, Gonzalo Peña Herrera, adviser to the under-secretary of natural gas and derivatives development , and Eduardo Barredo and Pedro Merizalde, advisers to the Ministry of Coordination of Strategic Sectors, who were accompanied by Eduardo Tapia, manager of Enap Sipetrol in Ecuador and Raúl León, LNG project director in the Biobío Region.

The Ecuadorian Ministry of Non-Renewable Natural Resources is working mainly on a master plan for the development of natural gas in that country on the basis of the substitution of diesel by natural gas in thermal-electric plants.

The Ecuadorian government will soon be contracting the engineering for the development of an LNG project there, which contemplates floating storage, transfer by virtual pipelines and re-gasification at key points, which would be the electricity-generating plants, in a system very similar to that currently in use in Chile.

The delegation also visited the different installations of the GNL Quintero plant, where its technical visit to Chile ended.