The Suape Port Authority announced its intention to construct a new 11.9-million-Brazilian-real (US$5.2 million), 1.2-megawatt electric plant. According to the news release, the plant should become operational by 2019, and in order to reach full production, it will need to receive 6 million cubic meters of gas daily (MMcm/d). Leonardo Cerquinho, director of the Suape Port Authority, told the Jornal do Commercio on July 16 that a regasification terminal would enable enough gas to be piped to the new electric plant. Currently, there are only three regasification terminals; all are floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs). One is located at Pecem in the northeast, another near Salvador, and the final is near Guanabara Bay, near Rio de Janeiro. The first came online in 2008, producing 1.5 mtpa, the second in 2013, producing 3.5 mtpa, while the third started production in 2009, able to produce 3.5 mtpa. In 2000, an import terminal in Suape was proposed by Shell and Petrobras, but it never materialized.
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